Today’s Agenda:

1. Today’s Agenda: • Return Quizzes , Explain homework, Mention Extra Credit—Rabbi Michael Lerner • Reminder: Last Class—King Lear…people can be like animals when they don’t follow the established order; Lear appears stripped of what distinguishes him as superior to those around him—especially in the storm, battling the elements. Presentations: • Carlos Ramirez: Jonson’sbiography • Isabel De Santiago: Metaphysical poetry • Lyndsey Corral: Donne’s biography GroupActivityonDonne

2. If time… • Brief overview of early 17thC—poets, politics, science: ideas of order. • See the Order/Disorder PowerPoint online (under The 17th C). • Ben Jonson’s “To Penshurst” • A prime example of idealistic, conservative views of order

3. Questions to Consider When Reading John Donne 1. The Norton Anthology sums up Donne‟s style as follows: “With his strange and playful intelligence, expressed in puns, paradoxes, and elaborately sustained metaphors known as ‘conceits,’ Donne has enthralled and sometimes enraged readers from his day to our own.” Read the “The Flea” (1264) and then sum it up and explain how the poem seems characteristic of Donne‟s style. 2. In what ways are the ideas expressed in “The Good Morrow” (1263-4) and “The Sun Rising” (1266) similar? Who/what is the speaker addressing in each poem, and what lines stand out as clever in their attempt to persuade their audience? 3. What are some novel images and comparisons that appear in the poems “The Canonization” (1267-68) and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (1275-76)? 4. Donne’s poems aren’t known for being soft spoken and traditional but for being bold, assertive, and provocative in both their tone and their choice of images. How does “Holy Sonnet 14” (1297-98) appear, then, typical of Donne? 5. Read “Meditation 17” (1305-06). For whom does the bell toll, and what does Donne suggest this should teach us? Which analogies do you find most striking in this piece?

4. Homework: • Read George Herbert (pp. 1605-06): “The Altar” (p. 1607), “Easter Wings” (p. 1609), “Jordan (1)” (pp. 1611-12), “Jordan (2)” (pp. 1615-16); Robert Herrick (pp. 1653-54): “The Vine” (pp. 1655-56), “Delight in Disorder” (p. 1656), “Corinna’s Going A-Maying” (pp. 1658-59), “To the Virgins” pp. (1659-60); Andrew Marvell (pp. 1695-97): “To His Coy Mistress” (pp. 1703-04). • Essay #2 is due Tuesday, Nov 13th. It’s on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, andits instructions are posted online. Also, we’re using Turnitin.com (as with Essay 1)