Thanatopsis
January 31st
Bellwork
January 31
Explain your answers
• 1.Read this sentence from
Paragraph 3.
• At first, when she is not busy
feeling sorry for herself, she is
tasked with the simplest of
duties, selling packets of
seeds, which is perfectly fine
with Hope, because she does
not want to participate in any
heavy-duty landscaping jobs.
• To what does the underlined
pronoun in the sentence refer?
• A she is not busy feeling sorry
for herself
• B she is tasked with the
simplest of duties
• C packets of seeds
• D
landscaping jobs
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2. Read this sentence from Paragraph 2.
This situation is supposedly only short
term, and her parents assure her that
they wouldn't ask for her help if she
wasn't such a dependable daughter.
Which revision of the sentence correctly
uses the subjunctive mood?
F
This situation is supposedly only
short term, and her parents assured her
that they wouldn't ask for her help if she
wasn't such a dependable daughter.
G
This situation is supposedly only
short term, and her parents assure her
that they wouldn't ask for her help if she
weren't such a dependable daughter.
H
This situation is supposedly only
short term, and her parents assure her
that they won't ask for her help if she
isn't such a dependable daughter.
J
This situation was supposedly
only short term, and her parents assure
her that they wouldn't ask for her help if
she wouldn't be such a dependable
daughter.
Thanatopsis
• Inversion: reversal or rearranging of the
usual order of sentences
• blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter):
Each line has five ("penta") "feet." A poetic
foot is a basic rhythmic unit – in this case
made up of two syllables.
• Those feet are generally iambic. Iambic meter
is a rhythmic pattern, in which an unstressed
syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. It
makes the sound da-DUM.
• The lines do not rhyme.
• To him who in the love of Nature holds
• Communion with her visible forms, she
speaks
• A various language; for his gayer hours
• She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
• And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Theme:
• Romantic poets focused on the beauty of
nature and the importance of the
individual.
• With a partner: Write a 30 line poem in
blank verse and inverted sentence
structure about 1) the beauty of nature or
2) the importance of the individual