2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfok7ZD9 2_k&feature=related  Video on Wordsworth’s life

3. Pg. 27- “Lucy Gray, or Solitude”  Written in 1799  Latin “lux” means Light. Therefore, Lucy Gray means light dark; light gone out

4. Vocabulary  Wretched-  Deeply distressed  wanton-  Playful; careless

5. Speaker -  Admirer of Lucy

6. Setting-  moor – an open marsh land

7. Characters-  Mother-  distracted, concerned  Father-  distracted, trusting, hardworking, harsh  Lucy-  eager to please, compliant, playful, innocent, carefree, alone but not lonely

8. Theme-  splendor and innocence of childhood “ignorance is bliss”  nature gives and takes life

9. Irony-  Lucy is connected to nature, yet nature is what takes her away

10. Literary Elements/Language Usage-  Appositive-  direct address. Line 15 “And take a lantern, Child, to light”  Foreshadowing-  Lines 11 and 12 “But the sweet face of Lucy Gray/Will never more be seen”  Flashback-  the entire middle of the poem is written in the day Lucy disappeared. The intro and conclusion are after-the-fact.

11. “My Heart Leaps Up”  Video reading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= kr-4fqrdYSw&feature=fvwrel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= kr-4fqrdYSw&feature=fvwrel

12. References nature- line 2- “rainbow in the sky” child- line 7- “Child is father of the man”- childhood is the most important stage of a man’s life

13. Themes  Splendor of childhood  Power of human mind- “I could wish my days to be”

14. William Blake  Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_geYnyuOkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_geYnyuOk

15. “The Clod and the Pebble”  Written in 1794  From Songs of Experience

16. Speaker  Clod= piece of dirt; stupid person; idiot  Pebble=“realist” pessimist

17. Personification  Love is two-faced  Selfless, easy  Selfish, suffocating  Clay and pebble talking

18. “A Poison Tree”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-x87gWZKd8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-x87gWZKd8

19. Allusion  Apple= Adam and Eve; sin

20. Symbolism  Apple= fruit of deceit

21. Theme  Suppression of anger leads to more anger

22. John Keats  Video about Keats and “To Autumn”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= oR-FSHc3qyY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= oR-FSHc3qyY  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= cKhX_DP1knU&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= cKhX_DP1knU&feature=related

23. Appeals to the senses:  Ripe fruit  Sweet kernel  Warm days  Clammy cells  Hair soft-lifted  Fume of poppies  Watching the last oozing hours  Songs of Spring  Stubble-plains  Wailful choir  Light wind  Lambs loud bleat  Hedge-cricket sing  Red-breast whistle

24. Poem + Images  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAE- jF4YNE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAE- jF4YNE&feature=related

25. Keats: “To Autumn”  As autumn is dying, so is Keats  Message/Theme: circle of life

26. Keats: “When I Have Fears”  Sonnet- 14 line poem usually using iambic pentameter (10 syllables….one unstressed, followed by a stressed syllable)  When I have fears that I may cease to be  Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain

27. Figurative language  Simile  Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain  Personification  Night’s starred face; magic hand of chance

28. Fears  Death  Fears that I may cease to be  Failure  Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain/To love and fame to nothingness do sink  Dying alone  Cloudy symbols of high romance/that I may never live to trace/ I stand alone

29. Images  Space  Night sky  Fairies

30. Edgar Allan Poe: “To Helen”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jdZ1NUjWg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jdZ1NUjWg

31. “To Helen”  Comparisons:  Sailing ship  Tidal wave  Hyacinth  Statue  Psyche- Greek goddess of soul