Listening to Your Sonnet with a Stethoscope: October 3, 2017

Focus: How can a poem's rhythm contribute to its meaning?

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1. Warming up with a five-minute terms (Weeks 1-6) review on www.quizlet.com

2. Listening to the heartbeats of three songs:

In each song, how does the rhythm reflect meaning?

Song #1: "Stressed Out" (twenty one pilots)
Song #2: "Critical Mistakes" (888)
Song #3: "Modern Man" (Arcade Fire)

3. Introducing you to scansion with Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" and "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun"

• What different types of poetic rhythm should we be listening for when there's no music?
• How does the rhythm in each poem reflect the poem's larger meaning?

4. Listening for the rhythm in your sonnets (small groups)

HW:
1. Finish East of Eden; our goal tomorrow is 100% participation! Complete your final reading ticket by doing the following:

• Select one motif (water, apples, the color gray, Cain & Abel, etc.).

• Describe where the motif has shown up previously, and address where/how it comes into play in the final chapters (include quotations/page numbers).

• What has this motif contributed to the meaning of the work as a whole. In other words, why do you think Steinbeck developed this particular motif?

2. Bring your charged laptop to class on Friday to compose your Big Question Blog on East of Eden.

3. Memorize (yes, memorize) your sonnet by Monday, October 23.