Daily Log

Wednesday, March 16

In the first half of the class we observed St. Patrick's Day by saluting our Irish-American President O'Bama and by examining the racism which Irish people encountered in this country in the 19th century.

In the second half of our extended class period we finished our examination of "O Captain" by observing how disruptions in the poem's meter are used to evoke the poet's uncontainable grief, and we considered more generally how sound echoes sense in poetry, referring to the important passage on that topic in Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism. Then we began to share our homework papers (Mr. P did one too) with their definitions of poetry from ourselves and other leading authorities.