This a blog for Mr. James Cook's eleventh grade honors English class at Gloucester (MA) High School. Remember what Northrup Frye writes in _Fearful Symmetry_, "No one can begin to think straight unless [she or] he has a passionate desire to think and an intense joy in thinking."

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Help with Poetry Lenses

Option #3
Here is a link to "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. Here's a link with an interesting historical note on the poem.

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Option #4
Here are links to scanned versions of the original plates of "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" by William Blake. (Notice the original spelling of "Tyger".) These plates contain the poems and art work created by Blake.

Here are links to text only versions of "The Lamb" and "The Tyger". Here's a link to the poems (as transcribed from the original plates) side by side.

If you would like to explore Songs of Innocence and of Experience beyond these two poems. You can find the poems with artwork here and without artwork here.

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