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

• From The Inferno – I, III, V, from XIV,  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