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Blake, Selected Poems Georgia Southern University guidelines direct Wesley and his brother John are associated with students to spend at least twice as much time doing the Holy Club at Oxford University, which grew into homework for a class as they spend in the class the Methodist Church. itself. In other words: if your class session is 100 Question 4 minutes long, you should devote three hours and ("The Lamb") ten minutes to homework. The second stanza or verse of "The Lamb" has ten Professors report that one of the biggest problems lines. Complete the following chart: in World Literature 2 courses is students' failure to line 1 = 6 syllables read the mandated texts. These "Write Now" line 2 = 6 syllables exercises are a smart way to deal with the challenge. line 3 = ___ syllables As you're completing this assignment, bear in mind line 4 = ___ syllables that our lectures and examinations take the line 5 = ___ syllables exercises as their starting point. line 6 = ___ syllables At the top of the page, write your first and line 7 = ___ syllables last names; your Eagle ID number; and the line 8 = ___ syllables phrase line 9 = ___ syllables Blake, Selected Poems line 10 = ___ syllables This exercise may seem trivial, but you'll learn that Failure to follow the following directions may result tiny details are essential when it comes to in a grade of zero for the exercise. • Use single understanding Blake. spacing. • Number each answer according to the Question 5 system below (Question 1, Question 2, etc.). • Use 1" ("The Tyger") margins top, bottom, right, and left. • Use either In "The Tyger" (page 2), the first line of the opening Cambria or Times New Roman size 11 font. • If you stanza and the first line of the final stanza are use more than one sheet of paper, staple all your identical, except for one punctuation mark. Identify sheets together. • There's no need to include the this small difference, and suggest two possible questions, but you can if you wish. • I can't deal reasons for it. Present one full sentence per reason. with your printer problems; get the homework Question 6 printed and ready to hand in before the 8:00 AM ("The Tyger") deadline. • NO hand‐written homeworks. • Answer Identify and make a substantive, explanatory using properly formed, complete sentences. comment about the single difference in diction (i.e. vocabulary) between the first and last verses of Question 1 "The Tyger." ("The Lamb") Question 7 While Blake's diction is generally simple, some ("The Tyger") poems feature words less commonly used nowadays To answer this question, you MUST consult the than in the past. The speaker of "The Lamb" (page Oxford English Dictionary, which is available 1) offers the terms "mead" and "vales." Using a through Galileo on the Henderson Library website. reliable dictionary (such as the Oxford English Here's a how-to: (a) go to Galileo; (b) click Dictionary or Webster's), offer for each of those Databases A-Z; (c) click O; (d) click Oxford English words definitions that fit with how they're used in Dictionary (at Oxford University Press); (e) type in the poem. Make sure to cite your sources. word tyger or tiger (both bring you to the entry Question 2 tiger). Citing two of the dictionary's usage examples ("The Lamb") of the word tyger spelt with a "y," suggest in a Paying attention to word choices, imagery, and/or couple of complete sentences a reason or reasons other aspects of "The Lamb," identify three matters why Blake may have chosen the form tyger instead to substantiate the assertion that the Bible and of the more common version: tiger. religion inspired Blake. Question 8 Question 3 ("The Tyger") ("The Lamb") The version of the poem included in the image Use the web to find the lyrics of Charles Wesley's (created by Blake using his relief-etching system) hymn, "Gentle Jesus Meek and Mild," written in renders line 9 with an ampersand, as follows: "And 1742, fifteen years before Blake's birth. Pretend you what shoulder, & what art." Similarly, line 12 also have to make a case that—on at least two occasions deploys an ampersand: "What dread hand? & what in "The Lamb"—Blake plagiarized: that he used, dread feet?" Taking either line 9 or line 12, suggest without acknowledgement, material and/or ideas in a complete, detailed sentence (or two) how the from Wesley's hymn. Your evidence can't all come ampersand affects interpretation. In other words, from just a single line in "The Lamb." FYI: Charles what effects does the ampersand achieve in contrast locution "little black thing," with what other socially to what use of the word and would achieve? exploited population might the speaker wish to Question 9 identify the chimney sweeper of the title? ("The Chimney Sweeper" Question 14 Songs of Innocence Version) ("Holy Thursday" Blake's printed version of "The Chimney Sweeper" Songs of Innocence Version) (page 3) has a very crowded appearance. Examine In lecture, we'll discuss further the single difficult the content of the poem, and suggest why such a word in "Holy Thursday" (page 5): "usurous," a rare jam-packed look or aesthetic is appropriate. When spelling of the term usurious. To answer this answering, be sure to offer and discuss two question, you'll need to do (and cite) a little quotations from the poem. research. An alternative but common name for the Question 10 Christian festival of Holy Thursday is Maundy ("The Chimney Sweeper" Thursday, which likely gets its name from the first Songs of Innocence Version) word (mandatum = Latin for commandment) in The speaker centers the poem on "little Tom the following statement by Jesus: "Mandatum Darce," whose family name means ten. The noun novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos" darce is an alternative spelling of the noun dicker. ("A new commandment I give…"; St. John's Gospel, Look up the first definition of dicker (i.e. the Chapter 13, Verse 34). First task: look up the version marked dicker n1) in the Oxford English complete Bible verse and suggest how it relates to Dictionary. Use evidence from the full-entry some of the content in "Holy Thursday." Second (versus the outline) definition of dicker to make a task: having found a credible discussion of case about why Blake chooses to give Tom the last traditions associated with Holy or Maundy name Darce. Thursday, discuss how one of those practices or Question 11 observances either does or doesn't fit with what the ("The Chimney Sweeper" poem expresses. Songs of Innocence Version) Question 15 The governing pattern in "The Chimney Sweep" has ("Holy Thursday" every second line rhyme with the line preceding it. Songs of Innocence Version) Thus, for example, sight in line 10 rhymes with Blake could have written "reduc'd to misery" (line night in line 9. Find a variation in the pattern. 3) as "Reduced to misery." Paying attention to the Having identified it on your answer sheet, suggest messages and concerns within "Holy Thursday," in a detailed sentence why the failure to rhyme in suggest one reason for his use of the contracted that instance seems appropriate—why it reinforces form. a message or messages the poem seeks to convey. Question 16 Question 12 ("Holy Thursday" ("The Chimney Sweeper" Songs of Innocence and of Experience Version) Songs of Innocence Version) This "Holy Thursday" lyric (page 6) offers the plural Obviously, this lyric deals with child labor. In the noun "beadles" (line 3). Using a reliable dictionary end, what point does the speaker intend to make— (such as the Oxford English Dictionary or that forcing boys up chimneys is wrong; that the Webster's), offer a definition of beadle that fits with practice can't be avoided in late-eighteenth-century its use in the poem. Make sure to cite your source. England; that the practice fits with what God To what building does the phrase "the high dome of intends? Justify your answer by quoting from the Paul's" (line 4) refer? Why might we say that the text. A minimum of two complete sentences are phrase "harmonious thunderings" (line 10) is an required here. oxymoron? Question 13 Question 17 ("The Chimney Sweeper" ("The Sick Rose") Songs of Innocence and of Experience Version) Analyzing two quotations from "The Sick Rose" In Blake's second poem called "The Chimney (page 7), make a case that it's an argument about Sweeper," all the words are simple. Most of the what, for several centuries, was called the great pox phrases are, too. However, the final formulation (i.e. not smallpox). You'll have to conduct some "make up a heaven of our misery" isn't all that easy basic research, so don't forget to cite your source or to interpret. What, in your opinion, does the sources. speaker aim to get across by this verb phrase? Note Question 18 that while the early "Chimney Sweeper" offers ("The Little Black Boy") names, such as Tom Darce, this poem identifies its When we read Frederick Douglass a few classes subject only as "[a] little black thing." By using the from now, we'll quickly discover that denying education to blacks was a key white strategy during Question 23 the Slave Age. In "The Little Black Boy" (page 8), ("And Did Those Feet?") the speaker's mother "taught me underneath a tree" "And Did Those Feet?" is far better known by the (line 5). Where, according to the mother, does God title "Jerusalem." Set to music composed by Hubert reside? What do you think Blake wants us to Parry in 1916 (i.e.
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