1. Warming up with "Paper Doll"
- Brainstorming connotations: What do you know about paper dolls?
- What's an extended metaphor?
- What object serves as the central metaphor? (The title often gives it away.) To what/whom is that object being compared?
- What other images and verbs go along with this object? How do they contribute to / shape / extend the metaphor?
- Does the metaphor's meaning shift throughout the poem? How so?
- Try out a thesis that goes something like this:
- John Mayer uses the extended metaphor of the paper doll in order to....
2. Glimpsing Emily Dickinson's poetry and trying to take off Emily Dickinson's clothes with Billy Collins
3. Uncovering the slightly less yielding extended metaphor in "They Shut Me up in Prose"
HW:
1. Keep reading East of Eden and prepare reading tickets for Socratic tomorrow (Wednesday) and Friday.
- For Wednesday: Chapters 23-26
- Thursday: 20-25 minutes of in-class reading time
- For Friday: Chapters 27-30
2. Enjoy not working on your college essay. However, if you need feedback immediately, stop in for a conference, and we can grade it on the spot.
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