Go over Journal 7: When Love Arrives
Memorization: "If" Stanza 1 due Monday
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
Journal 8: Clerihews
- Record the definition & write two of your own.
Clerihew (definition from wikipedia): A short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring a famous person. The rhyme scheme is usually AABB, and the rhymes are often forced (think of an awkward sounding limerick). The line length and meter are irregular (do as you wish with line length; no anapests needed in your meter; easy). Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875--1956) invented the clerihew in school and then popularized it in books. One of his best known is this (1905):
- Sir Christopher Wren
- Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
- If anyone calls
- Say I am designing St. Paul's."
It was a weakness of Voltaire’s
To forget to say his prayers,
And one which to his shame
He never overcame.
Noah’s
Boas
Kept his hares
In Pairs.
-- Sue Lampi (1994)
George Orwell
Answered the doorbell.
Big Brother’s Pizza at the door,
Two with pepperoni, $19.84.
Did Descartes
Depart
With the thought
"Therefore I'm not"?
Lovely old Queen Bess
Always in proper dress.
Can't leave her castle
Without so much hassle.
Jackson Pollock
facing possible painter's block
discovered that what matters
to the critics were his splatters.
The ignorant pronounce it Frood,
To cavil or applaud.
The Well-informed pronounce it Froyd,
But I pronounce it Fraud.
-- G. K. Chesterton
HW: Journal Check on Block Day.
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