1. How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapters 10, 19-20 Rain and Snow Geography Seasons

2. So what does it mean if it rains or snows? Rainbows and fog? Rain:  Cleansing  Restorative  Tone (mysterious, misery) Snow:  Clean  Stark  Severe  Inhospitable  Playful  Suffocating  Filthy Fog:  Uncertainty Rainbow:  Peace  Divinity  Unique/uncommon

3. What about geography?  When and where count as geography (places, time periods, directions)  Hills, rivers, lakes, deserts  Politics, history, economics  People (characters)  Plot device

4. And Seasons?  Spring: birth, youth  Summer: adolescence, experimentation  Fall: middle age/knowledge  Winter: end of life, death What emotions can we equate with the seasons?

5. Read the 2 poems and “annolight” as you read them. Then answer:  How do weather, geography and seasons affect your understanding and interpretations of the poem (individually)?  How do weather, geography and seasons connect the 2 poems? How do they divide the poems?  Both are about snow and winter and walking through the woods (most basic idea). What is the tone of each? How is the tone similar and/or different in each poem?

6. More connections:  How do weather, geography and seasons affect your understanding and interpretations of “Where are you going, where have you been?”?