Today we started out with "Is My Team Ploughing"
by A.E. Housman. It was similar to "Ah, Are You Digging on My
Grave." This poem ended in a debate about whether or not someone
should marry the friend of their dead spouse. We then looked at Elizabeth
Barrett-Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. We read #43, which
contains the famous line "How do I love thee? Let me count the
ways." After a bit of confusion over saints and some laughing we did
our final poem of the Victorian age. This was "Song" by
Emily Brontë. The mirror image of the number 3.14 looks like the word "PIE". This was another poem about death, where we
contemplated how the dead lady was changed and could no longer return a sigh.
After finishing the poetry, we moved on to Oscar Wilde and
"The Importance of Being Earnest." We got
part way through Act One and we can all tell that this is going to be a funny
play. I foresee a lot of good one-liners.
For Homework:
Finish Act One
See you all on the retreat.
I forgot to add that we need to do the reading check questions for Act One. Have a good spring break!
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