A. Williams
Honors British Literature and Composition
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
British Literature
Assignment: Read your assigned poet’s biography, featured literary element(s), and poems.
After reading them, discuss these with your peer (partner) concerning the meaning and any
analyses that go along with the poem. Make a copy of your poem/prose and annotate the
selection for significant findings including but not limited to (diction, syntax, literary devices,
theme). For the sake of time, please limit your discussion to 7 minutes max.
(20 points) Explicate a Poem/Analyze the Prose
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The Romantic Period(1798-1832)
A. “Lines composed…”________________
B. “London, 1802” Jared Wishard
C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” ________________
D. “She Walks in Beauty” Kysalyn Snead
E. from Don Juan________________
F. “Ozymandias” ________________
G. “Ode to the West Wind”____________________
H. “To a Skylark”_______________________
I. “When I Have Fears…” Tierra Steed
J. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” ________________
K. “The Lamb”____________________
L. “Infant Sorrow”___________________
M. “To a Skylark”__________________
N. “Ode to the West Wind”_______________
O. “Ode to a Nightingale”_________________
The Victorian Period(1833-1901)
A. “The Lady of Shallot” Hughton Mahiri
B. “Ulysses”
C. “My Last Duchess” Ken Hillman
D. “Sonnet 43” ________________
E. “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child” Devin Payne
F. “To an Athlete Dying Young” Jacobi Robinson
G. “When I was One-and-Twenty” Camm Jordan
H. “Tears, Idle Tears”_____________________
I. In Memorium Jacob Deloughy
The Modern Period (1901-1950)
A. “The Second Coming” ________________
B. “Sailing to Byzantium” ________________
C. “The Hollow Men” Brionna Johnson
D. “Musee des Beaux Arts”_______________
E. “Shakespeare’s Sister” Ayanna Gaines
F. “The Rocking-Horse Winner”___________________
The Postmodern Period (1950-Present)
G. “Do Not Go Gentle…” Miles Conklin
H. “An Arundel Tomb”______________