ROMANTIC POETS SYLLABUS


Read the excerpt of “The Romantic Age”

Read the bio of William Blake and the two poems,
“The Lamb” and “The Tyger”.

Packet on William Blake: Compare and Contrast Essay on two William Blake poems, “Chimney Sweep”

Go over writing strategies for William Blakes’ “Chimney Sweep” poems

Compare and contrast essay on the two poems “Chimney Sweep”



Assignment: Read and discuss Lord Byron’s biography and his poems, “She Walks in Beauty” and “When We Two Parted”.

Analyze the two poems according to soapstones, structure and imagery


Assignment: Read Shelley’s biography

Read “Ozymandias” and “1812”

Read Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” aloud

Analyze structure and rhyme scheme

Went over enjambment: definition and effect it creates.

Discussion of enjambment, the caesura and the terza rima.

Assigned for homework the worksheet on “Ode to the West Wind”.

In class assignment the next day:

Twenty minute warm-up: Analyze Shelley’s use of enjambment, caesura, metaphor and imagery to convey theme in “Ode to the West Wind”.






Read John Keat’s biography

Read and discuss John Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”

For homework reread “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, looking for: comprehension, vocabulary, shift of point of view and narrator, imagery and soapstones


Read “Ode to a Nightingale”

Analyze for imagery

Questions to “Ode to a Nightingale” are due today: page 517; “Understanding”: questions 1, 2, 3, and 4; “Analyzing”: questions 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; “Extending”: question 10; “Applying: Onomatopoeia”: questions 1, 2, and 3.


Assignment: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; page 517; “Think and Discuss: Understanding”: questions 1,2, and 3; “Analyzing”: questions 4 - 10; “Extending”: question 11; and “Reviewing: Symbols”: questions 1 and 2. This will be due on Friday, March 20th.


Compare and Contrast essay on John Keat’s “Bright Star” and Robert Burns “Choose Something Like a Star”


Compare and Contrast essay on John Keat’s “When I have Fears” and Longfellow’s “Mezzo Cammin”.


Multiple Choice Questions over John Keat’s poem “On the Sonnet” and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sonnet.


"Rock Star or Romantic Poet" Quiz








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