Friday, February 08, 2008

Friday, February 8, 2008

(backlogged entry, posted retroactively)

APees: "Tintern Abbey" by Wordsworth. The least you need to know:

  • lyrical poem
  • unrhymed iambic pentameter (blank verse)
  • written organically
  • "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling"--Wdswth's definition of poetry
  • pantheistic

Gifted English II: Othello Act I Content Vocabulary Quiz, followed by a short scene from the film.