1. Warming up with "Paper Doll"
- Brainstorming connotations: What do you know about paper dolls?
- What's an extended metaphor?
- What object serves as the central metaphor? (The title often gives it away.) To what/whom is that object being compared?
- What other images and verbs go along with this object? How do they contribute to / shape / extend the metaphor?
- Does the metaphor's meaning shift throughout the poem? How so?
- Try out a thesis that goes something like this:
- John Mayer uses the extended metaphor of the paper doll in order to....
2. Glimpsing Emily Dickinson's poetry and trying to take off Emily Dickinson's clothes with Billy Collins
3. Uncovering the slightly less yielding extended metaphor in "They Shut Me up in Prose"
HW:
1. For WEDNESDAY: Continue reading like a phenom; IF YOU AVERAGE 25-30 PAGES A NIGHT, YOU'LL BE IN GOOD SHAPE. Aim to be through or on Chapter 26 for Wednesday.
2. For THURSDAY: Early deadline for College Essay turn-in. Use the Night-Before checklist.
If you need the extended deadline, you may have all the way until next Monday to complete your essay.
3. For FRIDAY: Read through Chapter 30 for a big, formal Socratic.
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