Daily Log

Thursday, December 2

Students received a handout of terminology used in analysing and discussing poetry and another handout with excerpts from Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha. We read the very beginning of Hiawatha and after reviewing how to scan a poem's meter, and practicing by scanning our own names, we set about determining the meter of the Hiawatha.

HW due Friday:
Read the Hiawatha handout and write an answer to the following question: What makes Hiawatha a Romantic (capital R) poem. Your answer must be in the style of Hiawatha -- you are to write at least ten lines of verse with the same meter and other poetic characteristics.