I checked the notes on Shelley. Be sure to read pages 542-543. Read yesterday's blog for notes on Shelley.
Today: We read and made notes on the Ode to the West Wind. Define ode, lyric, apostrophe, terza rima, paradox, juxtaposition, allusions to maenads, motif of death, music, enchantment, incantation, Biblical allusions, sonnet, caesura
Each section is a sonnet so look for the problem, the volta, and the solution in each section. Take notes on the tone of each section based on the images, rhythms, and diction used.
Read the commentary on pages 549-550.
Several Biblical images arise in section 5 from Book of Revelation, St. John the Divine:
"Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this porphecy"
"I was in the spiriti on the Lord's day and heard in me a great voice, as of a trumpet"
"Behold he cometh with clouds?
The best way to put the themes of this poem into your own words is to create a TICK chart.
Do a thorough analysis of the title, the intro, the conclusion, and three key points and as you write your thematic statement, ensure that you say something from each section. In this manner you cannot go wrong.
HOMEWORK: Create notes on John Keats: page 556. His mother died when he was 14 and his father died when he was 8.
Keats believed that excellence in art resides in intensity and that poetry expecially "should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject." He sought to subordinate his own personality in his work.
Be sure to read and make notes on his theory called, "Negative Capability".
