Tone

Today in class we will read the chapter on Denotation and Connotation. We will go over your allegory poems.

We'll also look briefly at "The Flea".



Most of you did not write an explication of "My Last Duchess" yet. Think about the following things:

Themes: Power, Language and Communication (or lack of), Jealousy, Madness.

Symbols: “Spot of Joy”, statue of Neptune, the painting of the Duchess.

Form: Dramatic Monologue in open couplets (why couplets? Why open?), and in iambic pentameter.

Characters: The Duke. Look at how the Duke talks, his punctuation within the lines, the flow of his thoughts. Can the Duke express himself (he claims at one point that he can’t).

Irony: Dramatic irony, and a few situation ironies.

The title: What's the meaning behind it?

The setting: Is there any thing important about the setting?


HOMEWORK

Tone: 880-885, “The Man He Killed” – Questions. "The Telephone" and "Love in Brooklyn" questions. Read "The Flea" and questions.