Online Literature Lesson for Term 3 Week 9

Wed 20 Aug
1) Go to this link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Passage_to_India, and read the plot introduction, plot summary, key to chapters, character list and themes.
2) Consider and discuss with your partner how Haresh Sharma made an allusion to this novel by E M Forster through the character, Vinod, and his purpose for doing so.
* Note: Those interested to learn more about this novel may find this link http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/passage useful.
3) Post a comment on your classmate's poem (mysterious poet no. 6) with specific reference to the literary devices used, e.g. rhyme, rhythm, imagery (like simile, metaphor and personification) if applicable.
4) Discussion of the literary devices used by William Wordsworth in "Daffodils".

Homework
5) In preparation for Friday 22 Aug's lesson, I will require you to read "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. Come to class ready to write a critique of this poem. Pay close attention to the effects of its literary devices and consider the possible intention(s) of the poet.

The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all around it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?