Poetry Last Week

October 15, 2009

Today

1. “Pop” Quiz2. Close Reading Skills

1. “Did I Miss Anything?” (892)2. “Traveling Through the Dark” (884)3. “Sailing To Byzantium” (899)4. “Dover Beach” (819)

3. Papers Back

“Did I Miss Anything?” (892)

“Traveling Through the Dark” (884)

“Sailing To Byzantium” (899)

William Butler Yeats:

1865-1939

“Dover Beach” (819)

Victorian Period: 1837-1901 Period of many changes:

Industrial/economic Cultural Literary/art Gender/sex Science Colonial Middle Class Religion

Victorian Religion

Roman Catholic hierarchy restoration (1850)

Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859)

Questions for the Church of England (eg female priests, different sects)

Agnosticism (Herbert Spencer) Atheism

“Dover Beach” (819)

Two worlds: religious/secular Two worlds: Romanticism/modernism

Arnold (preface to “Of God and the Bible”) “morality touched with emotion“ "to pass from a Christianity relying on its

miracles to a Christianity relying on its natural truth is a great change. It can only be brought about by those whose attachment to Christianity is such, that they cannot part with it, and yet cannot but deal with it sincerely.”