1. Print, read, and annotate the three poems below:
Two poems by Sylvia Plath:
Lady Lazarus
Daddy
An intro to the Romantics: John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
2. Confessional Poems due Thursday! Requirements:
- Honest and Authentic
- Free verse is fine
- You must use stanzaic form
- Pay attention to sound as you write
- You must employ “painterly language” and literary devices (i.e. vivid imagery, metaphor, symbolism, motifs, etc)
- Write from the inside out
3. Group Presentation Dates:
Romanticism March 17 (We have to meet early this week)
Transcendentalism March 24
Imagism March 31
Harlem Renaissance April 7
Feminism April 14
Black Arts Movement April 21
Beat Poetry May 12
Spoken Word May 19