POETRY CLASS

Please read for next class - activity in class.

1. Raymond Williams. “The Romantic Artist”. (FOLDER IN THE XEROX)

2. Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience

Poems: 

Songs of Innocence

Introduction

Piping down the valleys wild,

The Little Black Boy

My mother bore me in the southern wild,

The Chimney Sweeper

When my mother died I was very young,

Songs of Experience

Introduction

Hear the voice of the Bard!

The Chimney Sweep

A little black thing among the snow,

The Sick Rose

O Rose, thou art sick!

The Tyger

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,

London

I wander thro' each charter'd street,

A Poison Tree

I was angry with my friend:

Site: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/blake02.html



3. Wordsworth, William. "The Thorn":


http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237810