C1003 Agenda

The Rose Family by Robert Frost

The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose -
But were always a rose.

5 Slides, 5 minutes

• "Learning about Figurative Language": Rebecca Hazelton (Links to an external site.) discusses similes and metaphors.
• "Learning Image and Description" (Links to an external site.) by Rachel Richardson: Richardson discusses image and description and their function in poetry.
• "In the Forest of Symbols" (Links to an external site.): Sandra Gilbert's poem about poetic symbolism.