Question of the Week (6/8/12)

As we approach the end of the semester, reflect back on the class and share what you liked and disliked about the course. Was there a particular aspect of the course you liked? If so, what was it? Was there something you wished we had covered in the course, but did not? What were your favorite novels and why? What were your least favorite? Post your answers to these questions by the end of the day on Tuesday. Remember to respond to another classmates' response. Enjoy your weekend.

Question of the Week (6/1/12)

Choose a poet from the list below -- there are enough poets for everyone in the class -- and conduct a little research on that poet.  Provide a biography on them and some highlights from their life. What is something that you may not have known about this person. Why is their poetry significant? Also, choose one famous poem from that poet, post it online, and share why you chose this poem. What is the poem about? How is it representative of the poet's work? Be sure to include an image of the poet as well. For this post, you do not have to respond to a classmates' response. Post your short biographies and poems by 3 p.m. in Tuesday.

Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Niki Giovanni
Maya Angelou
Elizabeth Bishop
John Keats
William Shakespeare
Langston Hughes
Alfred Lord Tennyson
A.E. Housman
William Wordsworth
John Milton
John Donne
Edmund Spenser
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
e.e. cummings
Edgar Allen Poe
T.S. Eliot
Oscar Wilde