June 17 Reading & Blog

Notes, courtesy of Tom Haluska: TOM HALUSKA 6_17_2013 CLASS NOTES

Read the following selections:

Chapter 10: “My Papa’s Waltz” “The Author to Her Book” “Speech to the Young” “White Lies” “Luke Havergal” “Dog Haiku” “Her Kind” “Rite of Passage” “Hate Poem”

Chapter 12: “London” “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” “Fire and Ice” “Bilingual/ Bilingue”

Blog: Select a song that you enjoy and find particularly evocative of an experience/emotion (remember, this doesn’t have to be a heavy subject)

• post the lyrics and a link to a video or sound file if possible

• Repeat our in-class exercise: Try paraphrasing the song (not a summary, but a rephrasing of the contents into prose). Explain what you think the song is doing; in other words, what is its message? Why use this approach to convey it? What words and images seem particularly important within the poems?  What is the tone of the song?

• Print out the song lyrics and bring to class*