Thursday 4/27/17 Agenda

Collect Closure HW Questions from last night

Introduce Writing Assessment (Essay) for Prufrock Due on Wednesday 5/3/17.

Assessment
There are a variety of activities that we have done in class to analyze the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot. Now it is your opportunity to show me what you know and what you have learned about the poem.  Write a typed, formal essay that answers the following prompt:

Prompt: Late in the poem, Prufrock makes the following observation:

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 
And in short, I was afraid. (84-86)

What is the significance of the underlined words in relation to the poem as a whole,
specifically including the epigraph from Dante that precedes this work? What does this
moment allow the reader to understand about Prufrock’s essential self and soul?

I have purposefully not used the specific words and phrases in the prompt in our class discussions and I did  NOT  discuss these lines at any length in class so as to avoid “lecture recap” papers: papers which merely repeat or paraphrase the whole-class insights without genuinely analyzing the material individually.

Reread the poem and mark the text:
Prufrock Online pdf with footnotes

Questions for brainstorming:
Why does Eliot use the word “flicker”? 
Why not “glow,” “shine,” “coruscate,” etc.?
Who or what is the “eternal Footman”? 
What does this character reveal or suggest about Prufrock’s symbolic location or placement at this moment in the poem?
The last line is a powerful confession. Why is Prufrock telling us this information? 
How does it help us understand his current state?

 HW=
1. Answer the brainstorming questions on binder paper in complete sentences. Due tomorrow at the beginning of the period.
2. Bring all of your LC material to class tomorrow for LC time with your group.
3. Read your LC book. Group Presentation LC Analysis is due on May 19, 2017.
4. Typed Prufrock essay is due this Wednesday 5/3/17 via turnitin.com.