Homework: Read pages 138-150 (Romanticism) in your lit. book. If you were absent today, you'll need to get the Romanticism video worksheet and get notes from a classmate for the part you missed.
Journal Make Up: Read the following poem and write a reflection on it.
Opinion, by Baron Wormser
Halfway to work and Merriman already has told me
What he thinks about the balanced budget, the Mets’
Lack of starting pitching, the dangers of displaced
Soviet nuclear engineers, soy products, and diesel cars.
I look out the window and hope I'll see a swan.
I hear they’re bad-tempered but I love their necks
And how they glide along so sovereignly.
I never take the time to drive to a pond
And spend an hour watching swans. What
Would happen if I heeded the admonitions of beauty?
When I look over at Merriman, he's telling Driscoll
That the President doesn't know what he's doing
With China. "China," I say out loud but softly.
I go back to the window. It's started snowing.
What is going on in the poem? Who is the speaker? What is the situation? What is being thought of and/ or discussed? What is the major conflict presented in this poem? Who do you relate more to, the "I" or Merriman. Why?
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