L1 Lit: Poetry Scansion and Betrayal Questions for Mar. 23

As I announced in class last week, I will be retesting you on poetry scansion on Tuesday, March 30. Here are several passages you can use to practice. Remember that if you're not sure for multiple syllable words, you can look up stress patterns in a dictionary. I will post the answers next week.

"TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night," From William Blake's "Tiger"

"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou, her maid art far more fair than she" From Romeo and Juliet

"Here we go off on the London and Birmingham
Bidding adieu to the foggy metropolis"

"Come live with me and be my love
And we will all the pleasures prove" From Christopher Marlow's"The Passionate Shepard to His Love"

For Pinter's Betrayal, read carefully the first two scenes and if you would like to write for this week answer one of the following questions in a response of 250 to 500 words.

1. Comment on the relationship between the action that takes place on stage and the the action that happens offstage. What does the relationship between the two types of action suggest about how the play presents betrayal?


2. Comment on how Pinter's special use of dramatic irony and his reverse chronology function together to form a comment about sexual infidelity in these two scenes.

Finally, please do not forget that you must read The Great Gatsby for April 16th. If you start now and read 10 to 20 pages at a time you can easily finish the book. If you wait until the last week to start, it could be quite difficult for you to finish the novel.