Housekeeping

• Reading Quiz (5 minutes)
• CUNY is still doing random testing. Keep an eye on your email!
• Discussion leaders: all names and due dates (note there are two) are listed and color-coded on the schedule. If you didn’t add your name to the sign-up sheet, you’ve been automatically assigned to the last slots available.
• Hypothesis: lots of excellent work already, just don’t forget to cite your sources. Also, if you’re playing the role of Glossary, make sure you not only define the word for us but also explain how it is being used in the text to add meaning.

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Formalism/New Criticism

• Discussion of Chapter 3
• Important passages/difficult ideas?
• Useful keywords?
  • Literary analysis as a kind of science
  • Overview

Poetic Analysis: Marlowe and Ralegh

Emely asks: “Here we have the bride having all the finery as traditionally embedded in many cultures in present day. The description of luxurious attire for the love of his life and solidifying his love with marriage. Why must he prove his love with marriage? Is there no other way to prove his love other than marriage? Perhaps just be a lifelong partner and be the person that she needs throughout the course of her life and not “trap” her with paper and ink. Why must the shoes have buckles with the purest gold when it would be something she’s wearing on her feet? Why could it not be something modest? Since with love all that would be needed is passion and a simple life, shoes to resemble to simple path she would be walking on.”

Emely Fuentes

A gown made of the finest wool

Which from our pretty Lambs we pull;

Fair lined slippers for the cold,

With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and Ivy buds,

With Coral clasps and Amber studs:

Poetic Analysis: Think-Pair-Share

Pull up the poem you brought to share with the class and re-read it. Think about what you think makes it challenging to analyze, especially through a Formalist methodology (3 minutes)

Now, pair up with someone near you and discuss your poems. What kinds of similarities do they bear in terms of form or style? How are they different? Do either of the poems offer a sense of unity, as outlined by the New Critics? (10 minutes)

We will share some of your findings with the class

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First Short Analysis Paper: Pre-Draft Exercise

For your first short paper, you will aim to analyze John Donne’s The Flea as a New Critic. After reading it a couple of times, use the questions on the section on Unity to begin making note of the poem’s structure and style. I will walk around the room if you have questions or need to make sense of difficult words or phrasing.

Before you go: use these last five minutes to complete your participation self-assessment!