Write 8 sentences on each question .
1.Select an
image or a symbol that one of this week’s assigned authors uses in his poem,
then explain what that image or symbol means and whether or not it successfully
conveys the emotion(s) it is intended to convey.
2.In
Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” there is an editorial
voice that offers marginal notes commenting upon and sometimes contradicting
the narrator’s voice.
3.In his
“ChimneySweeper” poems (these are found in Songs of Innocence), William
Blake uses the voices of child workers in response to the dangerous child labor
practices of the 19th century. How effective is his use of children’s voices in
these poems?
Week 7 Reading Assignments
Read the introduction (305-07)
Read the introduction to William Blake (309-12)
and Songs Innocence and of Experience (313-20)
Read the introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(334-36) and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (337-53)