OUR DESIRE TO TRANSCEND

Students will analyze works from the Medieval to the modern age and examine humankind's quest for morality and answers to the questions on life and death.

 

Major Works 

• ​clips, BBC documentary Dante’s Divine Comedy

• “On knowledge; literature; government,” Dante Alighieri (essay)

• From The Inferno – I, III, V, from XIV, XVIII, XXVII, XXVIII, XXXIV (CP – just I, III, V, from XIV, and XXXIV)

• From de Amore, Andreas Capellanus

• “Lamb” and “Tyger,” William Blake

• “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” and “Before I Got My Eye Put Out,” Emily Dickinson, p. 156-57

• “Dante’s Prayer,” Loreena Mckennit (song)

 

Unit Vocabulary

Allegory                  Alliteration                Allusion                 Anaphora               Archetype                 Blank verse

Catalogue               Cacaphony              Chivalry                 Courtly love            Diction                       End rhyme

Enjambment           En medias res         Epic                       Epic hero               Epic simile                 Epithet

Euphony                 Free verse               Hyperbole              Irony                      Metaphor                  Myth

Personification       Rites of passage      Satire                     Simile                    Symbol                      Terza rima

Symbol                   Syntax                     Understatement