Last day for Lear work and BCTELA entries is today.
18th century: Read and make notes on pages 332 to 342. The best notetaking is not simply copying from the text but to add your opinions about what you are reading. What/so what work best.
Next, apply that information to the works we read during this unit.
Be able to answer this question:
How will the political and cultural situations of the time influence the writing of the time?
What are their interests? What genres will suit these themes?
Sonnets? NOOOOOOOOOOO
Lyrics? Maybe?
Satire? HMMMM
Parody? HMMM
We will cut "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" from the core list. Scratch it off.
Read Chudleigh's |"To The Ladies" on page 355 (if you were absent). Take notes on form, literary techniques and form. Also, tie it to themes from works we have already studied. By doing so, you are preparing for the final essay from the exam, where you choose three works to discuss in a formal literary essay on a topic that the three works share.
In Chudleigh--focus on the rhyming couplets, the use of apostrophe, the radical message, the idea that laws can be changed, power is not natural, the imagery she uses, the fact that she repeats the word nothing five times and the extended metaphor of the servant, throughout.
Next class, we'll be reading Swift. Be prepared for a shock and bring ketchup.
