HAVE PERRINE IN CLASS: Every single person, please.

TODAY IN CLASS
PL:
1) Effects of foregrounded HIM and the long series of modifying phrases in lines44-49
2) The effect of the transitive verb construction "round he throws his baleful eyes" (56)
3)  The mix of Latinate and Anglo-Saxon diction " obdurate pride and steadfast hate"
4) A "summa-phrase" (keep same POV, as in a paraphrase, cover every idea/point, but don't attenpt a phrase by phrase close translation as a paraphrase would do) for Satan's initial speech to Beelzebut (84-124)

Poetry:
5) Clarification of my misleading reference on Friday to the Dickinson poem in Ch. 2, not the one in Ch. 1.  (Both concern someone's death at home; I swapped them in my mind.  Sorry!)
6) "The Ballad of Birmingham"--how the childlike or light-hearted ballad stanza can be used in serious poems.


FOR TOMORROW
1) Re: Paradise Lost

• On the packet itself, in the open space to the right of the text, continue the "summa-phrase" style for Beelzebub's response to Satan (lines 128-155) and Satan's reply (157-191)
• Mark particular lines you might recognize as "famous" (as in possibly you've heard them before . . . )
• On the separate sheet of paper, track the "epic simile" that sprawls essentially from line 192-220).  Do whatever you need to do to show, in accessible graphic form, how the "terms" of the simile progress; what is being compared to what, and to what, and to what . . . .Spell out details as needed.   You will be handing this in; that's why it needs to be done on the separate sheet of paper instead of in the packet.

2) Re: the poetry book
Yes, you should have read pp. 679-688 for today. You should be well up to speed on all of the poetry discussed in that section.  Apart from the PL work above, the only new obligation for Perrine is this:
Read the Dickinson poem (A Death in the Opposite House) (689-690?  need to double check text).  Study and be responsible for informed and ready responses to the questions that follow the poem.