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Friday, December 12

We read the section of John Greenleaf Whittier's Snowbound which is in our textbook (pages 182-185). The poem is a nostalgic recollection of the blizzards of the poet's New England boyhood.

HW due Monday:

Write at least twelve lines of poetry about (1) a childhood memory and/or (2) the snow. Unless you simply cannot or will not abide the form, please write your lines in the same form as Whittier's poem. Three elements to imitate in particular are the meter (iambic tetrameter), the rhyme scheme (rhymed couplets), and the mixing of lines which are end-stopped and lines which run on through the rhymes (lines which are "enjammed").