So, what you missed today was a multiple choice test over sonnet number 73; learning about caesuras and other important and cool poetry terms that will help you pass the AP test, reading and discussing "The Age of Reason" and reading portions of and discussing John Milton's PARADISE LOST, which does tie in with Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN. I was also going to explain the literary long form with you, but no, you decided you'd rather go to the beach, hang out at the mall or sleep......
A.P. Blitz, Saturday, March 24, 2018
Musee des Beaux Arts W. H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must h
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