Blauk, 12/6 - There's a Duel Meaning in That!

What is the Duel Meaning?
*P&P

*Turn in your J9 for a homework check.

*Sight Words Quiz 2 - When finished, please turn in and work on your CWP sonnet and/or Sonnet 116 to prepare for recitation early next week.

Some Reno sonnets:

Wifey Sonnet



The Holy Wind to Abyssinia bore
Us on the back of steel eagle’s wings
To land us in the orphan’s desert for
A royal orphan son from Judah’s King.
This fertile continent--heavy with child--
Bore for us our beloved Beniam boy.
Oh, Africa--womb of our son’s womb--wild
The Land where Spirit hovered for our joy.
The angel bard once likened childed womb
To sails big-bellied blown by wanton wind.
Your grace-filled fabric taut, a watery room,
Now harbors holy gift, a sacrament.
As Africa once bulged with right hand seed,
Inspired your belly is with ‘Vangeline. 


One to his seniors several years ago

When I consider sonnets I turn green.
I gag. I heave. Dry heaves, they will not stop
Until I write a quatrain . . . wait! I mean
An octave! (What I've written is mere slop.)
I cannot do this . . . meter? When will't end?!!!
As soon as meter's dial'd I kill the rhyme.
This casualty results when I don't tend
All sheep at once. I'm running out of time . . .
Shakespear'ean hydra! Come at me full force!
My loins I'll gird and stand my ground a man
Who will not shirk from war, nor from the course
will I depart. (my mind has hatched a plan!)
Submission to this yoke (the sonnet's weight)
Now means I've earned the right to graduate. 
 
*Any questions on J9?

*Hamlet . . . up through 4.3 then DVD, then 5.2.355 to the end.

HW: 
  1. CWP (Tues) - remember to do an artistic component to beautify your already beautified Ophelia ("Beautified's a vile phrase") . . . I mean, sonnet.
  2. Poetry recitation (Tues)

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