Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Resources

Kubla Khan Assignment: 

Kubla Khan Explained
Kubla Khan Full TEXT

Kubla Khan, read by Benedict Cumberbatch

Instructions:

• Listen to the poem
• Read the poem
• Draw the landscape of the poem
• pay close attention to what is an actual description (imagery) and what is a metaphor or simile.
• Label all items if you don't feel confident I will recognize them.
• This is NOT about artistic skill, but about accuracy.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Assignment:

Ryme of the Ancient Mariner FULL TEXT

Instructions:

• For each section
• Read section in group
• Summarize each verse in your notes in plain English (this includes the italicized summaries)
• Look for characteristics in the poem from your list. 
• Write down 5 per section with a short paragraph (could be a sentence) explaining why. 
• Use quotations from the text.
• Turn in:
• One document per group
• handwritten
• contains
• summary
• characteristics list

Pandemonium (2001)

A movie about Coleridge and Wordsworth

Philip Larkin: resources

Caedmon's Hymn Assignment

1. Copy the hymn to your notes (handwritten)
2. Read it aloud to yourself or friend
3. DO NOT look up the translation online.
4. I MEAN IT.
5. Write down all the words you recognize or think you recognize.
6. Be ready to show your work in class.
    

 

Caedmon's Hymn:

WEST SAXO VERSION

Verse Early Saxon

Nu sculon herigean heofonrices weard,

meotodes meahte and his modgeþanc,

weorc wuldorfæder, swa he wundra gehwæs,

ece drihten, or onstealde.

He ærest sceop eorðan bearnum

heofon to hrofe, halig scyppend;

þa middangeard moncynnes weard,

ece drihten, æfter teode

firum foldan, frea ælmihtig.