Sonnet responses!

What are your impressions of the sonnets?  After reading the entire packet, what is your sense of the form and its adaptability to different themes?  Are there any particular sonnets that appeal to you more than others?

Look on my works, ye mighty...

Can you think of other examples of situational and cosmic irony that we have encountered in the works we've read?

The choir of a church...

can be seen in this plan.  When we discussed Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, we saw that the leafless tree boughs and "bare ruined choirs" function as images of aging.  The speaker appears to be in the late autumn of his life, while the beloved friend he addresses is younger.

We'll pursue our reading of this sonnet, along with others, in the coming days, and also move into our in-class reading of Fences.

Question:  What is the speaker's message to his younger friend in Sonnet 73?  What do you think of the other sonnets in your packet?  Post some preliminary thoughts on the blog!

Welcome back!

I hope you all had a restful, wonderful break!  Now it's back to work, with interesting things in store for us.  We will be finishing with The Metamorphosis this week, so here's a question for you to think (and blog) about:  in what ways can the novella be read as a commentary on work and bourgeois values?  Hmmm...