The Amazing Shakespearean Sonnet by the L-class

A The horrid winter evening was so dark
B The devil was let loose and roamed the field
A He cries at night when storms ignite a spark
B Like guardians unprotected by the shield

C Like tempered silver swords begin to mold
D And waves go high in crooked splashing seas
C And in the cold of winter, giants scold
D The hair is itchy from the swarm of fleas

E He never claimed ‘twas known to be discrete
F When he exposed his manly private parts
E The devil made a jealous, quick retreat
F A glorious feast was held to hail the tarts

G The wonders of a baked and eaten bun
G As full of life as this sonnetic pun

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright ~ poem reading with text

Here you find an analysis of the poem :) Knock yourselves out, but make sure you UNDERSTAND!

The Lamb by William Blake ~ poem with Text

Here you find a good analysis of the poem. Use it - you may agree or disagree, but make sure you UNDERSTAND!

William Blake

Explain the quotes below:

Group 1:

1.      The tyger’s wrath is wiser than the horses of instruction

2.      Without contrasts is no progression

3.      Religion, politics and industrialism are “dark Satanic Mills”

Group 2:

       4.      Prisons are built with stones of law, Brothels with bricks of religion

5.      Active Evil is better than Passive Good

6.      The two contrary states of the human soul (“Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”)

My iambic poem

Write a poem in four lines about Romanticism. You must write in iambs.

Wordsworth: The Tables Turned

Wordsworth wrote in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, the collection of poems in which The Tables Turned first appeared: "There will also be found in these volumes little of what is usually called poetic diction; I have taken as much pains to avoid it as others ordinarily take to produce it; this I have done (...) to bring my language near to the language of men (...)"

Does Wordsworth reach his goal of writing in the language of med in this poem? Explain and exemplify, please!

William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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1. Why did you pick the lines you picked?
2. What aspects of the poem did you consider in your choice of pictures?
3. How did you manage to convey the Romantic conventions of poetic language?

John Agard: Mr Oxford Don

Here you can post the main points and conclusion of your analysis.
Post as a group or as an individual but don't forget NAMES.
Feel free to express agreement or disagreement with the analyses of the other groups/members.
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