By the end of this unit you should be able to:

* Determine the difference between escape and interpretive fiction

* Analyze a work in terms of literary basics and symbolism

Link to book by Thomas Foster

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Introduction: How'd He Do That?

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Chapter 4: If It's Square, It's a Sonnet

Sonnets

* A poem of fourteen (14) lines that rhyme in a certain pattern

* Every other line rhymes (Lines 1-12)

* Lines 13 and 14 rhyme with each other

* Four lines then a period. Next four lines and period. Last six lines then period.

* Starts with a setup and follows a story intro form. Usually first 8 starts story and last 6 wrap it up.

* Form does matter in a poem.

Sonnet Example

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Chapter 9: It's Greek to Me

Pieter Bruegel, the Elder: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

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"Musee des Beaux Arts"

by W.H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,

The Old Masters: how well they understood

Its human position; how it takes place

While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting

For the miraculous birth, there always must be

Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating

On a pond at the edge of the wood:

They never forgot

That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course

Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot

Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse

Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Brueghel's Icarus for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,

But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone

As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green

Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen

Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,

Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

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