BELL WORKGo to page 509 and answer the 4

questions in your notes. Be prepared to explain your answers!

Whitman

Read and annotate Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” and Emily Dickinson’s “Success is counted sweetest”

Answer questions for each poem

Discussion.

•Cataloging: frequent lists of people, things, and attributes. Sometimes in parallel structure•Parallelism: related ideas phrased in similar ways•Free Verse: poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhyme and meter. They lines in free verse often flow more naturally and sometimes sound like everyday speech.

Homework

•Write a paragraph detailing how Walt Whitman could be considered a transcendental poet. Make sure to cite evidence.

•Finish Study Guide and prepare for Monday’s test