The document provides instructions for students to analyze the poem "Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes. It begins by having students discuss and annotate the poem in groups. It then provides background information on the poet Ted Hughes. Students are asked to identify and explain striking images in the poem, and to categorize the images. The document discusses analyzing the language, structure, and themes of control and ownership within the poem. It poses discussion questions about the poem's meaning and whether it represents arrogance, attitudes of those in power, or is simply about a hawk.
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Stream of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's 'To The Lighthouse'Dilip Barad
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Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.
During this time Arnold wrote the bulk of his most famous critical works, Essays in Criticism (1865) and Culture and Anarchy (1869), in which he sets forth ideas that greatly reflect the predominant values of the Victorian era.
A presentation analysing Philip Larkin's 'Mr Bleaney', a poem about freedom, death and loss, home and isolation from his collection 'The Whitsun Weddings'
Stream of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's 'To The Lighthouse'Dilip Barad
This presentation is about the narrative technique used by Modernist female novelist Virginia Woolf in her novel 'To The Lighthouse'. It deals with illustrations from the novel and its explanations. The interior monologue, free association etc are explained in this presentation.
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.
During this time Arnold wrote the bulk of his most famous critical works, Essays in Criticism (1865) and Culture and Anarchy (1869), in which he sets forth ideas that greatly reflect the predominant values of the Victorian era.
Wordsworth view on Theme and Subject matter of poetry.Mital Raval
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Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poesy (also known as The Defence of Poetry or An Apology for Poetry), and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
His artistic contacts were more peaceful and more significant for his lasting fame. During his absence from court, he wrote Astrophel and Stella and the first draft of The Arcadia and The Defence of Poesy. Somewhat earlier, he had met Edmund Spenser, who dedicated The Shepheardes Calender to him. Other literary contacts included membership, along with his friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopagus', a humanist endeavour to classicise English verse.
Both through his family heritage and his personal experience (he was in Walsingham's house in Paris during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre), Sidney was a keenly militant Protestant. In the 1570s, he had persuaded John Casimir to consider proposals for a united Protestant effort against the Roman Catholic Church and Spain. In the early 1580s, he argued unsuccessfully for an assault on Spain itself. Promoted General of Horse in 1583,[1] his enthusiasm for the Protestant struggle was given a free rein when he was appointed governor of Flushing in the Netherlands in 1585. In the Netherlands, he consistently urged boldness on his superior, his uncle the Earl of Leicester. He conducted a successful raid on Spanish forces near Axel in July, 1586.
An early biography of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow, Fulke Greville. While Sidney was traditionally depicted as a staunch and unwavering Protestant, recent biographers such as Katherine Duncan-Jones have suggested that his religious loyalties were more ambiguous. He was known to be friendly and sympathetic towards individual Catholics.
An Apology for Poetry(also known as A Defence of Poesie and The Defence of Poetry) – Sidney wrote the Defence before 1583. It is generally believed that he was at least partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, The School of Abuse, to Sidney in 1579, but Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato. In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on fiction. The essence of his defence is that poetry, by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical focus of philosophy, is more effective than either history or philosophy in rousing its readers to virtue. The work also offers important comments on Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethan stage.
The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802. It has come to be seen as a de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement.
An overview of Emily Dickinson's poetic style.
Information taken from Gale articles and web sources.
Email me for the works Cited page if you're interested.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
Wordsworth view on Theme and Subject matter of poetry.Mital Raval
This presentation is a part of my academic presentation Literary Theory & Criticism Department of English M.k. Bhavnagar University and it is submitted to Pro. Dr. Dilip Barad.
Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poesy (also known as The Defence of Poetry or An Apology for Poetry), and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
His artistic contacts were more peaceful and more significant for his lasting fame. During his absence from court, he wrote Astrophel and Stella and the first draft of The Arcadia and The Defence of Poesy. Somewhat earlier, he had met Edmund Spenser, who dedicated The Shepheardes Calender to him. Other literary contacts included membership, along with his friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopagus', a humanist endeavour to classicise English verse.
Both through his family heritage and his personal experience (he was in Walsingham's house in Paris during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre), Sidney was a keenly militant Protestant. In the 1570s, he had persuaded John Casimir to consider proposals for a united Protestant effort against the Roman Catholic Church and Spain. In the early 1580s, he argued unsuccessfully for an assault on Spain itself. Promoted General of Horse in 1583,[1] his enthusiasm for the Protestant struggle was given a free rein when he was appointed governor of Flushing in the Netherlands in 1585. In the Netherlands, he consistently urged boldness on his superior, his uncle the Earl of Leicester. He conducted a successful raid on Spanish forces near Axel in July, 1586.
An early biography of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow, Fulke Greville. While Sidney was traditionally depicted as a staunch and unwavering Protestant, recent biographers such as Katherine Duncan-Jones have suggested that his religious loyalties were more ambiguous. He was known to be friendly and sympathetic towards individual Catholics.
An Apology for Poetry(also known as A Defence of Poesie and The Defence of Poetry) – Sidney wrote the Defence before 1583. It is generally believed that he was at least partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, The School of Abuse, to Sidney in 1579, but Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato. In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on fiction. The essence of his defence is that poetry, by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical focus of philosophy, is more effective than either history or philosophy in rousing its readers to virtue. The work also offers important comments on Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethan stage.
The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802. It has come to be seen as a de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement.
An overview of Emily Dickinson's poetic style.
Information taken from Gale articles and web sources.
Email me for the works Cited page if you're interested.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
ENGL 102 College Composition IILength 4 – 6 pages +.docxkhanpaulita
ENGL 102
College Composition II Length: 4 – 6 pages + work cited list
Essay 3 –
Researched Argument
Description: This essay expands your analytical and writing skills. You will write an essay that expands on an idea suggested by the prompts for reading selection “THE ROAD NOT TAKEN”. Although this analysis is your analysis you will inform is by researching academic secondary sources for deeper connections to lead new insight into the author, setting (both historical and situational), and theme. As your understanding deepens, you will present a thesis that argues your idea and you will support it with details from your own analysis research, and connections.
Robert Frost- Author of the Road Not Taken
Robert Frost (1874–1963) was born in California. After his father’s death in 1885, Frost’s mother took the family to New England, where she taught in high schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Frost studied for part of one term at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, then did various jobs (including teaching), and from 1897 to 1899 was enrolled as a special student at Harvard. He later farmed in New Hampshire, published a few poems in local newspapers, left the farm and taught again, and in 1912 left for England, where he hoped to achieve more popular success as a writer. By 1915, he had won a considerable reputation, and he returned to the United States, settling on a farm in New Hampshire and cultivating the image of the country-wise farmer-poet. In fact, he was well read in the classics, in the Bible, and in English and American literature. Among Frost’s many comments about literature, here are three: “Writing is unboring to the extent that it is dramatic”; “Every poem is... a figure of the will braving alien entanglements”; and, finally, a poem “begins in delight and ends in wisdom.... It runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life—not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence:
Requirements:
· Four - six pages double-spaced, 12 pt font, excluding work cited list
· Topic is THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
· You will begin your essay with an introductory paragraph that includes the name of the selection and author, your topic, and a thesis statement.
· You should employ principles of argum.
INTERVIEW NO. 3 WITH RON PRICE
Preamble:
This is the third interview in the year 1996 with the Australian-Canadian poet Ron Price. This interview continues to explore some of the same questions, examine similar issues and talk about poetry, reading and writing as the first two interviews did earlier in 1996. He has also added material in the years after 1996 and up to 2012.
Questioner(Q): We have talked before about your first poem, or poems. Could you tell us more about how you got started in the poetry business?
Price(P): The first poem I wrote and kept in my files was two to three months after I started taking lithium carbonate, a mood stabilizer, for my bipolar 1 disorder. I wrote some forty poems in the six years: 1981 to 1987 and another one hundred and thirty from 1988 to 1991. I have come to see this period of some 11 years as my ‘first poems’. There was an emotional stability in my life that I had not had before as a young adult or middle-aged man, indeed, since I was in my mid-teens, since about 1959. I have talked about lithium before and I don’t want to belabor the point here, but I think it has been crucial to my balance and well-being. In the ‘80s I had several some major battle-zones in my life: in my employment, and in my fight for compliance on the medication. I worked in Zeehan, Tasmania; Katherine, Northern Territory; Port Headland and Perth in Western Australia--all in the same decade. In addition, my wife was sick much of the time in that decade---and on and on goes the litany of troubles. I think this zone of troubles kept my production limited, although I did write many essays.
Literary Devices are common structures used in writing.pptxJudelyndeRamos1
The English language encompasses a host of literary devices that make it so rich and expressive. They provide a broad structure under which all the types of literature are classified, studied, and understood. The importance of literature in the portrayal of human emotions is best understood by the application of these devices.
McClintock-Walsh ENGL 151 Assignment Sheet Final PaperLength.docxandreecapon
McClintock-Walsh ENGL 151
Assignment Sheet: Final Paper
Length: 6-8 pages (not including Works Cited List)
Due Date: Rough draft: in our conferences
Final: See syllabus
No late papers will be accepted!
Write a 6-8 page paper (that incorporates research) on any of the works we have read in this class. (If you choose to write about a work you have written about already, the content of this paper must be significantly different from what you have already written.) Although this is a research paper, remember that YOUR ideas are important. I do not want you to turn in a book report or a Wikipedia entry. Rather, you should be developing an insightful reading of one or more works that you support with the text and with outside sources. Remember, we research to fulfill our curiosities, to deepen our knowledge of a subject or author, or to make ourselves more of an expert on the works we are covering. We do NOT research to mimic or regurgitate someone else’s ideas.
Remember it is of the utmost importance that you develop a specific thesis, or argument, that you will be able to prove with research and textual analysis. Remember: a thesis statement should arise from a question you have about the work(s) (i.e., What is the significance of the Perseus and Danae myth in Room? OR What confines characters in Room, “The Hunger Artist,” and/or “The Yellow Wallpaper” ? OR According to Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and/or Anna Deavere Smith, where does racism come from, and how can society overcome it?). Your thesis statement should be an answer to this question (i.e., Donoghue uses allusion to Greek mythology to both illustrate all of the levels of imprisonment Ma and Jack face). You should use the rest of the paper to support your own unique argument with close readings of the text and with research. Think of the thesis statement as your radical declaration; think of the rest of the paper as the evidence that supports your radical declaration. (A strong thesis statement in a research paper will be very narrow and focused. A thesis that seems too narrow is always preferable to a thesis that is too broad.)
Please AVOID PLOT SUMMARY. I have already read these works, so you are writing for an informed audience.
You may choose to write your paper on one work we have discussed this semester, or you may compare/contrast two works. Remember that research should help you become more of an expert on your subject, and that research should be an organic process that helps you fill in gaps in your own knowledge, or deepens your understanding of a work, author, or concept. Let your own questions and curiosities guide you in your research.
I do not like to set an exact number of sources that you must use, but this type of paper will likely require you to consult and use at least three outside sources that you will incorporate in a meaningful way into your paper. You may not use the internet alone for your research; I will be unimpressed by flimsy, general ...
The most Amazing English Story of all the timeYaseenKhan96
This is one of the best story that you do not need to read at all. Don't waste your time reading stupid english literature. Try exploring your own culture and avoid this devoid of humanity culture. You know why I am writing this description. Just to fill out this description. So in order to increase my scores and your scores, oh not your scores, I am writing these things which doesn't even make sense. Does it make sense to you? Obviosly not at all. So don't waste your time reading this? Are you still reading this? Oh no, You are obsessed with my writing. You made me happy not at all. Since I don't want to waste your time. I am just writing a long description for my own gains and you are here wasting your precious time. May be it's not precious but at least it is valuable and shouldn't be wasted at all. You get it?
1. Starter
Your
homework was to use SMILE to
annotate your poem.
Work
with the people on your table
to discuss and add to your
annotations…
Add any additional ideas and seek
help.
5 minutes
3. Hawk Roosting
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
The convenience of the high trees!
The air’s buoyancy and the sun’s ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth’s face upward for my inspection.
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly –
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads –
The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
No arguments assert my right:
The sun is behind me.
Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this.
4. The poet
Ted Hughes was born near Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1930. His father
was a carpenter and a veteran of World War One. Although his family
moved when he was eight years old, the landscape of his birthplace had
a huge impact on his writing. He went to Cambridge in the 1950s where
he read English Literature, Anthropology and Archaeology. While at
Cambridge, he met his first wife, Sylvia Plath, whom he married in
1956.
After university he had various jobs, including working in a zoo,
teaching and reading scripts at Pinewood Studios. Sylvia Plath and Ted
Hughes had two children but later separated. In the year after their
separation she committed suicide. Hughes’ next relationship was with
Assia Wevill. They lived together and she looked after his children
from his first marriage. However, she also committed suicide, gassing
herself and her daughter in a manner similar to that of Plath.
In 1970, Hughes married Carol Orchard and they remained together
until his death. In 1984 Hughes became Poet Laureate and held the
post until his death. He died in 1998, shortly after the publication of
Birthday Letters, a collection of poems about his relationship with
Sylvia Plath. His ashes were scattered on Dartmoor.
5. Hawk Roosting
‘Hawk Roosting’ was published in 1960 as part
of Hughes’ second book, Lupercal. It is one of
many poems that he wrote about nature and
the natural world.
At the time of writing Hughes was living with
his wife Sylvia Plath, in America.
6. Imagery
In pairs
Choose what you think is the most striking image
in the poem. Then prepare an explanation saying:
what the image is
what it means in your own words
why you think it is striking.
These do not have to be lengthy explanations.
Each pair should write their chosen image onto
the A3 sheet and prepare to share with the
class
7. Classifying the images
In
small groups (on your table) write the categories
onto cards and classify each image as either
positive or negative.
While discussing you should be questioning what
makes something positive or negative; discussing
the process of making value judgements.
Each
group will feed back to the class.
8. Alternatives
Think
of other ways the images could be
divided into groups or categorised,
Look for links and make creative connections.
For example, you could try placing the images
under headings such as arrogance, violence and
enjoyment. The important thing is not that you
find categories that work absolutely, but to
find categories that work.
9. Review
Which
image do you feel is most important
when relating this poem to the theme of
power and control?
Why?
Write
a sentence summarising your ideas.
10. Look
at the pronouns used in the poem.
List
the different ones used and count the
number of times they are used.
What
might this suggest about the poem
and its narrator?
12. Control and ownership
List
all the nouns used in the poem.
something
that is part of the hawk
a natural phenomenon
something that the hawk thinks it owns or
controls.
Use
highlighters or coloured pencils to indicate
which category each word belongs to.
13. 1. How does the poet create a sense of the
hawk's superiority?
2. Why do you think the poem is written in
present tense?
3. Could this poem be linked to the
government and political leaders? If so how?
4. Is the reader supposed to agree with the
hawk's opinion of itself?
5. Why do you think the poet has chosen a
hawk to convey his opinions?
15. Hawk Roosting
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
The convenience of the high trees!
The air’s buoyancy and the sun’s ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth’s face upward for my inspection.
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly –
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads –
The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
No arguments assert my right:
The sun is behind me.
Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this.
Structure - Look closely at
each stanza . What do you
notice? What does this link
to?
Punctuation - Track the use
of punctuation. Why are
there so many end stopped
lines?
Meaning – What is the main
theme of the poem?
Imagery - What extended
metaphor is used
in the poem?
Language – What language
features have been used
and why?
Effect – How does the poet
feel about the subject? Are
you being offered a
message or a view of things
the writer wants you to
share or understand? If so,
what?
16. Structure - Turning points
Identify a turning point in the poem. A place where
the mood or topic changes.
One school of thought about this poem suggests that
there is a turning point in the poem – line 13.
The theory is that the poem revolves around that
point as the hawk thinks the world turns around it.
Another school of thought holds that the mood of the
poem changes several times and so there are several
turning points.
17. THINK – PAIR - SHARE
This poem is just about a
hawk…
Some people have suggested that it is really about people’s
arrogance, the attitudes of those in power, rich people and
even Satan.
However, others have argued that Hughes’ nature poems are
just about nature and so the poem is just about a hawk.
CHOOSE ONE OF THE TOPICS BELOW. Discuss in pairs-5
minutes-Then write a response.
This is a poem about humans rather than a hawk. Discuss.
This is a poem about power. Do you agree?