Monday Dec. 5, 2011L.O. SWBAT describe the themes of two poems and synthesize the

information.

• Silent Reading• Upcoming Week• Conditional Synthesis• Group Brainstorming• HW:

– Poetry Portfolio due Friday– Conditional Synthesis Brainstorm Sheet– Vocabulary Crossword– Poetry Review + Poetry Presentation

This Week• Dec. 6 Tuesday – Hand in Vocab Crossword• Dec. 7 Wednesday – Work Period• Dec. 8 Thursday – Poetry Review – Work Period?• Dec. 9 Friday – Poetry Portfolio Due/Poetry Test• Dec. 12 Monday – Poetry Presentations• Dec. 13 Tuesday – Poetry Presentations• Dec. 14 Wednesday – Creative Writing Intro +

Conditional Synthesis Paragraph• Dec. 16 – Grade 10 Vocab Matching Test

Dylan Thomas– Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

• Welsh Poet (1914-1953)• Written for his dying father• One of his most popular poems• Doctor gave him four years to

live

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good NightExplanation #1

• Watched his father, formerly in the Army, grow weak and frail with old age

• Speaker tries to convince his father to fight against imminent death

• Uses “wise, good, wild, grave” men – illustrate the same message that no matter how they have lived or what they feel at the end, they should die fighting

• One should not die without fighting for one’s life or after life

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good NightExplanation #2

• Speaker admits that death is unavoidable, but encourages all men to fight death

• This is not for them, but to give closure and hope for their loved ones left behind

• “Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray”

• Never showed this poem to his father, so he composed it more for his own benefit

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good NightExplanation #X

• The author’s own fear of death• Fear having little separation between life and

death• Father’s own catharsis before passing on• Wild hope that he will see his father before he

passes

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

• Structured as a villanelle– Only has two rhyme sounds– The first and third lines of the first stanza are

rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close

– 19 lines long, consisting of five tercets (3 lines forming a stanza) and one concluding quatrains

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

• Villanelles usually imply a light gay tone• Profound paradox: unavoidable death in the face

of the perpetual rhythm of rebirth• The refrains – courage and frustration, strength

and grieving• The different epithets (word or phrase applied to a

person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality) “wise”, “good”, “wild”, and “grave” – attitudes of men in front of their last challenge

John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud

• Sonnet # 10• A metaphysical poem• Written around 1610 and

pushing posthumously in 1633

John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud

• Sonnet addresses Death, telling him not to be proud, because death is not to be feared

• Sleep is a type of death, and that is pleasurable; then death must be even more so

• Death is a slave to fate, chance (accidental death), kings (who have the power of life and death), and desperate men

• ABBA ABBA CDDC AE rhyme scheme

John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud

• Lines 1 – 2– Addressing Death as an equal, apparent later as

inferior– Death likes to think of himself as powerful and

terrifying– Some people have called him that, but that is not

truth

John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud• Lines 3-4– Death thinks that he is “overthrowing” men when

he takes them (i.e. conquering, vanquishing, ruining, etc.)

– Death is a means by which man finds Resurrection, eternal life and immortality through Christ in heaven

– “poor Death” – sarcastic, patronizing – “nor yet canst thou kill me” – Death does not kill,

but is the enabler of new, immortal life – Cannot kill, so holds no power over the speaker

John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud• Lines 5 - 8– Idea of sleep as death’s image– (Parallel of sleeping/waking and dying/waking is noted

later in the sonnet)– Best man of the era go unhesitatingly to their deaths– They wisely realized death is another form of sleep– Their bones go to their rest (graves) and their soul gets

“delivered” (set free)– Multiple meanings: being freed from the human body,

freed from the fear of death, delivered into heaven, delivered in the sense of being born

John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud• Lines 9-10

– Death is a slave– Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men as his “master”– Personified Death does not always have the power to choose who is

to die– Fate and chance may suddenly take someone– Kings on a whim may doom people to their deaths– Desperate men, who see no way out, may take their own lives– Cheats Death of his control and mastery– Likens Death to a scavenger who cleans up where poison, war, and

sickness have raged – How proud is his position now?

John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud• Lines 11-12

– Back to sleep/Death image– Drugs alike have the power of producing sleep, and in fact, create a truer sleep than

Death (since Death is a fleeting moment’s sleep before resurrection)– Death’s self-image is belittled and shown as false– Question: What reason have you, Death, to be proud? (Image is that of a chest swelling

with pride)

John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud• Lines 13 – 14

– “One short sleep past” – fleeting moment– “We wake eternally” – we will wake up resurrected, to eternal life,

never to sleep or die again– “Death, thou shalt die” Then, death will cease to exist altogether, will

die– Death is a mere mortal, or rather less than mortals– Idea that Death is the one who should be afraid, not the one to be

feared

HOMEWORK

• Vocab Crossword• Thesis + 3 Supporting Points• Read Poetry Cafe

Poetry Review

1. Poetic Devices – See Poetic Device Sheet– See ENG 12 Literary Terms Sheet

2. Poetic Forms Assignment (Forms + Types)– Be able to read a poem and label them– E.g. Narratives, Didactic, Lyric, Etc.

3. Synthesis Hook + Synthesis Structure– You will be writing a Synthesis Essay

Tuesday Dec. 6, 2011L.O. SWBAT present a thesis and understand synthesis structure.

• Silent Reading + Collect Vocab• Synthesis Discussion• Group Discussion on Poems• Present Brainstorm to Class• HW:– Poetry Portfolio due Friday– Conditional Synthesis Brainstorm Sheet– Poetry Review (Test Friday) + Poetry Presentation

Wednesday Dec. 7, 2011L.O. SWBAT…

• Work Period• HW:– Poetry Portfolio due Friday– Conditional Synthesis Brainstorm Sheet– Poetry Review: Test Friday– Poetry Presentation (Dec. 12/13)

Thursday Dec. 8, 2011L.O. SWBAT demonstrate their understanding of

the main concepts in poetry.

• Review Period• HW:– Poetry Portfolio due tomorrow– Poetry Test tomorrow– Poetry Presentation (Dec. 12/13)

Friday Dec. 9, 2011L.O. SWBAT demonstrate their understanding of

the main concepts in poetry.

• Poetry Test• HW:– Poetry Presentation (Dec. 12/13)– Conditional Synthesis Package– Grade 10 Vocab Dec. 16