Thursday, September 29, 2005

Advanced Placement Literature: Discussion and review for the Mactest.

Gifted English IV: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and a scary supplemental essay by Professor Shoaf of UF.

Gifted English II: What is a parable? Zen Buddhism proverbs and a creative writing assignment. Our author of the day today is Anonymous.

Note: I attended an online workshop through the College Board last night about poetry. Although I found the workshop itself deeply unmotivating, it did create in me a desire to read poetry even more than I already do. In keeping with my current poetic vibe, then, here is a poem I really, really like. Read it and comment if you'd like.


The world is too much with us


THE World is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,

The winds that will be howling at all hours

And are up-gather'd now like sleeping flowers,

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be

A pagan suckled in a creed outworn,—

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.