Entries by dpogreba

Araby Notes and Other Downloads

The notes from today's class are available here –and will always be in the downloads section in the future. In general, if you are trying to find something, the course information page is the best bet to find it.   I will post your essay assignment this evening. It will be located here .   […]

A Poem by Pablo Neruda for Summer Days

Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the earth,
let's not speak in any language;
let's stop for a second,
and not move our arms so much.

It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together in a sudden strangeness.

Fisherman in the cold sea would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt would not look at his hurt hands.

Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victories with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.

AP Extra Credit and Makeup

Quiz Makeup 3 entries in the Literapedia 2 thoughtful forum posts about a poem from the poetry of the week or a novel we are reading 1 insightful contribution to the Top 10 book lists (You can do this o­nce) 1 very thoughtful (2+ paragraphs) analysis of a poem from o­ne of the poems of […]

A Poem a Day

Week One To a Cat by Jorge Luis Borges Mirrors are not more wrapt in silences nor the arriving dawn more secretive ; you, in the moonlight, are that panther figure which we can o­nly spy at from a distance. By the mysterious functioning of some divine decree, we seek you out in vain ; […]