1. Warm Up What current love songs can you think of – in any popular music style? Can you recall songs sung from the perspective of an impatient suitor to a specific love who hasn’t quite committed himself/herself – or not in the way the singer wants? What songs come to mind that follow this pattern? How is love treated in popular music today?

2. Pastoral Poetry/ Carpe Diem Poetry

3. Complete #1 on Handout Number the list of qualities from 1-10 (1 is most important; 10 is least important). When finished discuss your reasons with a partner.

4. Discuss Which of the qualities listed did you think are most important/essential for love to thrive? #1s? Why?

5. Notes 2. A Pastoral poem is … A poem that presents shepherds in idealized rural settings. Popular during the English Renaissance. Not written to show how people in the country really lived and spoke. They used this sophisticated type of poetry to express their feelings and thoughts about love and other subjects

6. Notes IMAGERY- comes from commonplace country settings

7. Notes FORM – formal meters and rhyme schemes help give pastorals a musical or songlike quality

8. Notes STYLE – speakers use elegant, refined language rather than the language of common speech

9. Discuss What movie scenes, personal stories, or literary character actions come to mind when you hear the phrase: Carpe Diem?

11. Carpe Diem Defined Seize the day – a literary theme that urges living in the present moment, especially in pleasurable pursuits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWwo6hYHnaQ

12. Focus for Reading As you read pastoral poetry look for: 1.The details mentioned describing pastoral life 2.The use of nature imagery 3.Themes mentioned