1. Fireside Poets- Illustrated Annotations (Directions)
Check the class blog and copy the notes posted there for today’s post (2/28/17)
Pair up with one other person (or work alone). You will need a posterboard and a textbook.
Look on the blog to see what poem you will b working with.
Copy the entire poem on your posterboard, leaving plenty of room or annotations on either side.
Your partner and you will be analyzing your assigned poem, looking for figurative language, imagery, and rhetorical devices all throughout. Resources have been posted to the blog.
Instead of simply labeling these items, you will draw pictures for each. NOTE: Other than your names (on the back) and the text of the poem, there should be NO other text. Your annotations MUST be hand drawn pictures, symbols, or images from the poem
A total of fifteen illustrated annotations are due by the end of class and should be recorded directly to your posterboard.

2. Fireside Poets (Copy these notes into your notebook)
Goals of American Romantic poets were different from those of Romantic novelists.
Novelists looked for new subject matter
Poets wanted to prove that Americans were not ignorant hicks.
To do this, they wrote poems is a style much like the poems of England.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( ), John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell were known as the Fireside Poets.
Poems often read aloud by the fireside
In their time period and for a long time after, they were the most popular poets America ever produced.
Because they preferred the old, established styles of poetry, the fireside poets were unable to recognize the American poetry of the future.
In 1855, Whittier read the work of a young poet, Walt Whitman, and promptly threw it into the fire.
After reading the same poetry, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the young poet a letter.
“I greet you,” Emerson wrote to Whitman, “at the beginning of a great career.