Daily Log

Thursday, April 14

We reviewed the homework assignment from yesterday, re-reading "Because I could not stop for Death" and the five critical comments on it, discussing agreements and disagreements between them, and saying which we agreed and disagreed with. We then moved on to the subject of Friday's (tomorrow's) in-class writing exercise, a comparison of Whitman's and Dickinson's treatment of death in the poems we read together.

HW due Friday:
Prepare for the "Dialogue on Death" to be written in class (see Documents page for assignment sheet). Bring notes handouts, printouts -- anything short of a rough draft. The dialogue is to be written in class. You will have half an hour.