Due Monday, October 6 (both sections)
- Carefully annotate the following poems paying particular attention to line and sentence boundaries or blocks of meaning: "Life While-You-Wait" (169), "The Terrorist, He's Watching" (154) & "The Tower of Babel" (57). Read each twice.
- Journal for 15 minutes about any single poem: How do line, phrase and sentence boundaries work in this poem?
- Carefully annotate the following poems paying particular attention to sound devices: "On the Banks of the Styx" (171-2), "In Praise of Feeling Bad about Yourself" (168) & "In Praise of my Sister" (159). Read each twice.
- Journal for 15 minutes about any single poem: How do the sounds work within a given line and among the lines together?
- Select and read five Szymborska poems of your choice. You're looking for poems that we don't discuss in class that you might want to write about in a paper.
- Select and read five Szymborska poems of your choice. You're looking for poems that we don't discuss in class that you might want to write about in a paper.
