The sun has set for us with hard core carpe diem poems – we are moving on to Pastoral poetry – that’s the folder with the world on it. Carpe diem had the sun on the folder; pastoral poetry has the land because it takes places in an idealized countryside setting.

The poems can be saved to OneNote – they are the Pastoral poems file. First, we read The Passionate Shepherd and took notes. Get the notes from a good classmate. How romantic and naive! Note this poem has an AABB rhyme scheme, 6 stanzas, 4 lines per stanza, and 8 syllables per line.

Then we read the response poem: The Nymph’s Reply. This was the shut down – all the things the Shepherd offered the girl were only temporary. She also took the imagey in the first poem and twisted it, making it negative.

Then, we downloaded the the Seduction/Denial file – that’s our pre-writing. Fill out steps 1-4 and then start writing your OWN Seduction/Denial poems.

• 2 poems.
• 6 stanzas each.
• rhyme scheme AABB

If you missed today (Melissa), you are stuck on your own. 🙁 Just get through the first two stanzas and it will get easier.