Last Day of School and Last Victorian Poem

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.