Tuesday’s Agenda:
Share Venn Diagram Results for Renaissance/Metaphysical Time Periods:
Discussion on: “The Flea”
At home:
Take notes on Romanticism PP
Read: “Sick Rose” by William Blake page 542 (glossy pages)
Answer the following: Identify and explain the symbolism of the Rose.
Read: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats page 632
Answer the following:
1. Have you ever been happy enough that you felt you could live in that moment forever? If not, did this poem convince you that such moments are possible?
2. Why does the speaker seem to be all over the place in this poem? He seems to go from curious to nostalgic to lustful to frustrated. If you had to write his fictional life story, what would it say?
3. Why do you think the first critics of Keats’s poetry hated it
4. How would you describe the overall tone of the poem? Is it joyful or sad?
5. Is the speaker able to identify with the Ancient Greeks depicted on the urn, or is he merely excited by the "mystery" of their culture and its foreignness. Do you feel like you can identify with life on the urn?
6. What do Keats’ famous lines “'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all /Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' “(lines 49-50) mean to you?
