Period Two Poem HW

Each night you should study the poem(s) that will be presented the following day in class by answering the questions below. Do all the assignments on the same paper, heading each assignment with the date and the poem’s title.

1. Summarize the plot of this poem.  Briefly, what is it about?
2. Note a few literary techniques which stand out in this poem.
3. How well does this poem fit with our definition of the Romantic period? Explain briefly.

Poetry HW will be stamped daily and collected Friday.
Monday

• The Garden of Love    William Blake
• Jean    Robert Burns

Tuesday

• On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer    John Keats
• She Walks in Beauty    Lord Byron

Wednesday

• Sonnet 1    Charlotte Smith
• Go, Valentine    Robert Southey

Thursday

• Ozymandias    Percy Shelly
• Answer to a Child’s Question    Samuel Taylor Coleridge