An Elegy for Youth

Post date: Sep 16, 2014 12:50:56 PM

Mr. Shurtleff

Boardman High School

AP Literature and Composition

An Elegy for Youth

The last thing you remember, you were watching Mr. Rogers and eating Tasty Wheat in your parents' living room, now you are frantically filling out scholarship applications, visiting colleges, deciding on a career, just basically planning your life away. Now might be an appropriate time to set back on your preverbial mead bench (minus the mead), and think back over your life, such as it is. We have been studying the eligiac mode over the last several days, and now it is your turn to wax poetic. In this beginning of your final year of high school, think back over your past happiness and contrast it to your present, if not sorrows, then at least anxiety. What happend to the simple life? What happend to no responsibilities?

Create an elegy that includes the following elements:

Caesura

Ubi Sunt

A Distinct Meter

Kennings

An example of a Litote

12 point font

Times New Roman (unless you find an appropriate Old English Font that is readable

Between three-quarters to one page in length

Single Spaced

Due Date: Monday, 22 September, 2014