1. AP Literature
October 20th

2. Agenda Checking extra credit vocabulary flashcards
Checking Vocabulary 1-10 Unit 4 words – Frayer Cards
Vocabulary Activity Unit 4 words-types of sentences
Explicate six poems in groups from Chapter 3 & review as a class
Checking Completion of Chapter 3 Questions for the following poems:
Accounting
35/10
Tree Heart/True Heart

3. Vocabulary 11-20 – checking XC, Frayer cards, and poetry homework.
Directions
Words
Using two of the vocabulary words, write a simple sentence for each.
Using two of the vocabulary words, write a compound sentence for each.
Using three of the vocabulary words, write a complex sentence for each.
Using three of the vocabulary words, write a compound-complex sentence for each.
Irrevocable propensity
Querulous remonstrate
Repudiate resilient
Reverberate scurrilous
Sedulous sleazy

4. Chapter 3 Poems
In assigned groups, annotate and discuss each poem. Discuss your annotations and be ready to answer questions in discussion.

5. Cross
The speaker is a “cross (literal) between black and white, and this is the “cross” (metaphorical) that he has to bear. There is also an overtone of the adjectival meaning “angry” in the title.

6. The world is too much with us
Sonnet juxtaposing 19th Century Christian English faith in industrial development and mercantile values with a primitive faith in the pagan deities of nature.
Conflict between Christ and Pan
Identifies Christianity with modern materialism and urban insensitivity to nature.
Speaker identifies with the modern age, but wishes he could be a pagan despite the fact that the beliefs of ancient Greece are “outworn.”
Opening quatrain abstractly generalizes. It contrasts the presumed power of trade with the internal power of the imagination, and declares that the real cost of a materialistic value system is our hearts.

7. The world is too much with us
Second quatrain sets the scene. Speaker personifies sea and winds as representing the speaker’s attempt to display his own sensitive image- making powers-but his images tend toward triteness. (tone is changed to straightforward colloquialism)
As a transition from octave to sestet, these lines appear to give up the attempt to counter crass materialism with poetic originality.
Line 9-speaker swears by God his preference for a pagan creed. Can only summon up a glimpse of these nature gods, ironically created for him by great Christian English poets of the past. (Many allusions made to Spenser, Colin, and Milton)

8. The world is too much with us
Desiring to reach backward to a natural paganism, the speaker must rely on his Christian poetic heritage.
He realizes that he cannot hold such beliefs and is wistful about the “outworn” but imaginative mythological personifications of sea and wind, representing a lost harmony between man and nature.

9. Tree Heart/True Heart
Analogy between the hearts of trees and those of human beings.
Argument is that time and growth cause the tree hearts to be “serially displaced”
Like steadfast human hearts, the speaker implies, tree hearts are to acquiescent to natural forces of change.
A true heart does not give way to spring.
The speaker is one whose beloved is absent, despite this absence, the speaker’s heart is true.
The final two lines express directly what has been suggested all along-that despite the passing of seasons, including the season of love and renewal, the speaker remains true to the beloved.

10. Homework
Homework: Read Chapter 4 Imagery pgs
Spring, The widow’s lament in springtime, I felt a funeral in my brain (you do not have to do questions)-reading quiz tomorrow.
Finish vocabulary sentences.