C235 Agenda

Complaint: A poem of lament, often directed at an ill-fated love, as in Henry Howard’s “Complaint of the Absence of Her Love Being upon the Sea,” or Sir Philip Sidney’s “Astrophel and Stella XXXI.” A complaint may also be a satiric attack on social injustice and immorality; in “The Lie,” Sir Walter Ralegh bitterly rails against institutional hypocrisy and human vanity (“Tell men of high condition, / That manage the estate, / Their purpose is ambition, / Their practice only hate.”) ("Glossary of Poetic Terms," Poetry Foundation.)

You need:

• Four questions about the poem
  • word definitions
  • clarification of myth
  • suspected allusion
  • etc.

 

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Together: 

• Answer your questions
• pick one per table to highlight to the class

 

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