American Literature 201November 3

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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is because man is dis-united with himself. He cannot be naturalist until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit. Love is as much its demand as perception. . . . In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. [977]

Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature”

Next Week’s Assignments

Monday, 11/8Identify Graded Blog #6Submit thesis statementRead “The Birth Mark”Submit passage for review in class (extra point)

Wednesday, 11/10Video tape reading of poem

Thesis Statement

Review 5 examples

Promises made in thesis

Review Poems for Recording

Based on poems selected

Last QuestionsRemember for November 8

Graded blog #6Thesis statement and passage from “The Birth Mark”

“It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson *

* Sante, Luc. “The Fiction of Memory” The New York Times. March 14, 2010.

Last QuestionsRemember for November 8

Graded blog #6Thesis statement and passage from “The Birth Mark”

“It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson *

* Sante, Luc. “The Fiction of Memory” The New York Times. March 14, 2010.