TODAY IN CLASS
If you were not there, consider the expections (for key nouns; for phrase as a whole) for a poem entitled "The Emperor of Ice Cream" BEFORE continuing with the rest of the homework listed below. This is a perfect model poem for applying the strategies of the TP-CASTT series of steps for analyzing poetry. I asked people to dig out of their notebooks the two-sided detailed accounting of what is involved in TP-CASTT; do not rely on the short summary on the back of the "How to Read a Poem" hand-out.

We also looked at Hardy's "The Ruined Maid"--think through the questions in the book following this poem (pp. 459-460).

FOR TOMORROW
Poetry: 
Yes, the short series of questions after Hardy's poem (just study/think)
"The Emperor of Ice Cream" (p. 789)--go through the steps, noting especially all the elements and devices listed under "Connotation."  You don't need to prepare a formal paper or product to hand in, but you DO need to annotate and to write sufficient notes to show study and engagement with this poem and to respond quickly in class discussion.  Do NOT research this poem to find out what others have said about it.  You can look words up in the dictionary, but that's it.

Also for poetry--if you haven't read Ch. 16 (Imagery), catch up on that; I forgot to tell one class yesterday.  (Sorry) It's crucial.  The list of terms to review is the heart of what you need to know about poetry; most of them were on your list, but this is the chapter that makes them real.  And read Frost's comments on METAPHOR.  Metaphor is at the heart of much of our thinking--ways of thinking--about the world.  A good summer read might be Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.

Assuming you HAVE read it, and if you possibly can, add Ch. 17 (Song), but 17 truly is just a back-drop chapter for the next one (18) on Sound.

Tess
1) Study the last three paragraphs of Phase the First.  How is Hardy as narrator sympathetic to Tess? 
2) Study the "walking in the woods at night" passage in Phase the Second, Chapter 13, the last three paragraphs of that chapter.  How id Hardy as narrator sympathetic to Tess?  How is Tess's condition/situation paralleled by the environment she is walking through?  What is the underlying irony in this passage?

And keep on a-truckin':  Phase the Fourth by Friday.