TODAY IN CLASS
Poetry 

• Titles are important (unless they are a first line).  Consider them well.  Yesterday and today there were titles containing an allusion to a longer quotation or saying.  Readers are generally expected to "know" what the rest of it is.  (Hard to teach per se, but be aware and if you THINK there's more to it, you're probably right!)691)
• Speaker/audience situation: sizing up the speaker/spoken to using all the available language clues, punctuation marks, and contextual material. 
• It's a process:  make guesses, check against the "data"/evidence in the poem, recalibrate, and sometimes suggest something else
• Point of view/perspective:  be prepared for shifts.  Again, use diction, grammatical forms, punctuation marks, other clues to help understand where (and why) something significant changes.
• Make sure theme statements apply to all of what a poem contains, not merely one section.

Poems we focussed on:
"When in Rome" (691)
"There's been a Death, in the Opposite House" (691)

Collected:  "the epic simile untangled" assignment (PL I.192-220) but written directly on that separate sheet (not the stapled packet)

FOR TOMORROW
Read, nay, study, the rest of the Paradise Lost packet. You do not (shocker) need to bring Perrine with you to class tomorrow.

There WILL be a short timed write (circa 30 minutes), but you don't need to do anything special to prepare for that assuming you've read the two poetry chapters.