1. RVP: Term 2, Week 3 Matthew Arnold

2. The essay  Consider it as expansion of previous paper, rather than an invitation to forget close reading  Suggestion: at least 3,500 words spent on close reading  Review materials on website if unfamiliar with expectations of essay form

3. Expectation and Fulfillment/Cancellation  Poems may set up an expectation of a response  Of a rhyme  Of a resolution to a problem (plot or idea)  The idea may be fulfilled, or may be canceled

4. Metalepsis  Literary texts may present ideas at multiple levels  Example: allegory  Literal story (there are a bunch of people chained in a cave)  Figurative level (about perception, the nature of truth, philosophy)  More levels possible  Example, “The Scholar Gypsy”:  Actual story of the scholar-gypsy  What that story means to the narrator  What the process of meaning-making says about how humans in general make meaning

5. “Memorial Verses” Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease. But one such death remain'd to come; The last poetic voice is dumb— We stand to-day by Wordsworth's tomb.

6. Groups  Choose a stanza from [unread poem]  Explicate completely  Discuss how rhyme scheme, verse form coheres thematically with this passage  Address three moments of significant diction  Discuss metalepsis within the poem: what are its multiple levels?  Ask a well-formed discussion question