Christina Rossetti - exploring your favourite quotations

Choose your favourite phrase or line (up to two lines maximum) in the set poems by Rossetti and explain why it is your favourite.  Explore the significance of this quotation and the effects it creates.  Due by Monday, February 8th.

Far from the Madding Crowd: quotations (2)

Choose a quotation from the fourth instalment (chapters XV-XX).  Remind us what chapter it comes from, then explain briefly why you chose it.  Feel free to comment on other quotations!  Due by Monday, January 11th.

Voice lesson on imagery 2

Write a paragraph in which you create a scene through auditory imagery.  The purpose of your paragraph is to create a particular mood.  Use one olfactory image to enhance the mood created by auditory imagery. Comment on at least one other post - mood created, choice and effectiveness of imagery. Due by Friday, December 18th. (ps Don't forgot to vote in the poll to the right)

Rhyming couplets 2.1

Come up with a rhyming couplet for Demetrius to say to Helena just before leaving (see lines 241-244), summing up his opinion or feelings.  Write in iambic pentameter!  Feel free to comment on your classmates' rhyming couplets.

Far from the Madding Crowd: quotations

Choose a quotation from the first two instalments of the novel (chapters 1-5 / chapters 6-8).  Remind us what chapter it comes from, then explain briefly why you chose it.  Feel free to comment on other quotations!  Due by Thursday, December 3rd. (Also, please vote in the poll on the right!)

Voice lesson on Detail 2

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
    W. H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”

Task: substitute another general term for suffering in the first line (e.g. laziness, happiness…).  Now rewrite the fourth line with details about the opposite condition of your term.  Share your new stanza on the blog and comment on one other stanza.  Due by Friday, November 27th.

Voice lessons - Diction 2

"Her face was white and sharp and slightly gleaming in the candlelight, like bone."

Substitute a noun for bone that changes the meaning and feeling of the sentence.  React to a classmate's substitution, commenting on how it changes the sentence's connotation and impact.