Satire

Jonathan Swift-- Restoration Period

Assignments:

• Read “A Modest Proposal”

• Listen to it here.

• Watch the video explanation from Shmoop

• Answer these questions

W.H. Auden-- Modern Period

Assignments:

Read The Unknown Citizen

Listen to it.

Replicate and analyze the poem 

Poetry Terms

Shmoop explanation

Listen to:

• Bob Dylan

  • “With God on Our Side”

  • Blowin’ in the WindSubterranean Homesick Blues lyrics

• Pete Seeger

  • American War Songs Medley

• Bruce Springsteen

  • Born in the USA

• Phil Ochs 

  • A Small Circle of Friends

  • Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police 

  • The Witnesses That Didn’t from WNYW

Assignment:

Explain the difference between what was said and what was meant in all of the literature and songs studied in this unit. Due at final exam.