Bonne Année! Oh, wrong class

Happy New Year! Zut, ce n'est pas la classe de français

Poetry
Pablo Neruda's poem Poetry/Poesia

Dickinson
Is her work autobiographical?
Why does she use all of those dashes??
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed     Why?
Iwo Jima image

Huck Finn
Is Huck a Realist or a Romantic? Find examples
(213) The Romantic feels things that aren't true (that it's evil to "steal'" Miss Watson's "property")
(214) The Realist is a thinker and finds his own truth. He sees the evidence that Jim is good
Contemporary moral issues that all of us must think through to arrive at an informed position:
Euthanasia, abortion, LGBT, gun control legislation, pedophelia (it was considered "normal" in the 19th Century for 30 year-olds to marry 14 year-old girls)
HOMEWORK: Bring a poem of your own choosing to share with the class. You will explain what you like about the poem. I had the same assignment when I was a sophomore in Mrs. Lofgren's class in room 204! I chose The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. That's a tough poem!!
You may choose any poet you would like so long as he or she is a recognized poet (not you, not your friend).
You may even choose poets in Translation (Neruda, Rilke, Baudelaire (often popular with teens) are poets representing the three foreign languages at this school).
Poets studied in our anthology include:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert Lowell, John Whittier, Emily Dickinson, Chief Joseph, (uncle) Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters.
Poets from next semester (but it's ok to choose one of theirs now) include:
Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Crowe Ransom, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, E.E. Cumminigs, Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Theodore Roethke, Denise Levertov, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Robert Penn Warren, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich
Remember: you may choose any poet you would like.
TEST: Huck Finn Reading Comprehension Test Tuesday/Wednesday January 12/13