Class 6 Irony and Theme – No Class on Labor Day

Class 6 Comp 2 August 31 Assignment  1: Read Richard Cory and answer the questions at the end of that poem. The responses are due in writing at the beginning of Class 7, which is September 7. Assignment  2: Read the Lottery and Answer the Questions at the end of the Story. This assignment is…

Robert Frost’s Mending Wall and Irony Class 6

Class 4: August 24 Assignment 1: Read Robert Frost’s Mending Wall and Answer the Questions Your Response is due at the beginning of Class 5, which is August 29. Mending Wall by Robert Frost – Irony in Literture  

Birches by Robert Frost

Birches BY ROBERT FROST When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay As ice-storms do. Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a…

Mending Wall by Robert Frost – Irony in Literture

Mending Wall BY ROBERT FROST Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not…

Robert Frost

Mowing BY ROBERT FROST There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself; Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun, Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound— And that was why it…