Thursday/Friday

Slight change of plan. I want to give you two poems--one of which appeared on some versions of the exam. The two poems are Claude McKay's "The Harlem Dancer" and Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask."  Both come from the Harlem Renaissance.  I will read the poems aloud and we will talk about them.

We will begin with "Dante's Inferno." You do not have to bring your textbooks. You will read the background information in the Norton Anthologies, pp. 1010-1016. I will give you questions to answer.

As it turns out, we may not have time to get to Canto I, so the homework will now be cantos I - III.

Coming up:

We do not have time to read all of Dante, so the ones to look forward to are the following:

Canto VI--the Gluttons.
Canto VIII--Styx, the Wrathful, Phlegyas and The Fallen Angels
Canto X--the Heretics
Canto XI--the Heretics
Canto XIII--The Violent Against Themselves
Canto XIV--The Violent Against God, Nature, and Art
Canto XVI--The Violent Against Nature & Art
Canto XVII--The Violent Against Art. Geryon
Canto XIX--The Simoniacs
Canto XXIII--The Hypocrites
Canto XXVI--The Evil Counselors
Canto XXVII--The Evil Counselors
Canto XXXI--The Giants
Canto XXXIII--Compound Fraud, The Treacherous to Country, The Treacherous to Guests and Hosts
Canto XXXIV--The bottom of hell