Daily Log

Monday, March 15

We went over (and in some sections graded) the "quiz" over Walt Whitman's biography.

Next we analyzed the metrical pattern of "O Captain!" and after extensive and detailed investigation revealed the poem to be written in: ballad meter (more on that subjectr to follow).

HW due Wednesday (periods 4, 5, and 6) or Thursday (period 1):

What is poetry?
(1) Answer the question yourself in one or two sentences;
(2) Find and reproduce at least six other definitions of poetry from respected sources (poets, scholars, reference works);
(3) Cite the sources for all your quotations in correct MLA format (see pp. 17-19 of your planner).
YES! It needs to be typed.