READING for next week, 9/30

Everyone! Please read these poems for next week (you can write about them in your reading response journal). Please also print them out so we can have them in class next week.

As you read, I want you to specifically think about these things: 

• tension/conflict in the poem
• a shift or change
• imagery (how does the author use imagery? what does the imagery do?)
• language (what words jump out at you? how can you think about this in your own poetry?)
• structure (does it rhyme? what's the meter, if you can tell? how would you think about this in your own poetry?)

William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

John Donne, "Death, be not proud"

Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"

William Shakespeare, "My Mistress' Eyes"