What my Dad refers to as, "The Punies" (pyoonees)

I'm feeling a bit under the weather...well, pretty da*n under the weather, actually. I will in all likelihood be absent from school tomorrow (it's okay, hold back your tears) so I wanted to touch base from the blogosphere and encourage you to be hyper-proactive with the poetry study tomorrow, as the sub can never be entirely up-to-speed. Bring your A-game, as we didn't get to nearly as much as I would have liked on Wednesday, due to our thesis work (though I thought this was valuable - did you?), and tomorrow and Tuesday will be pretty packed.

It's not required, but if you get the chance, use this blog prompt to discuss some thesis and general essay improvement, as the revisions are due on Thursday.

If you read this before tomorrow, look up and be familiar (and share with classmates that didn't see this post) with the following as they apply to the poems listed below: Similes and metaphors, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche and metonymy, hyperbole, and understatement.

That's a full lid - don't terrorize the sub tomorrow and I'll be checking the blog frequently if you have questions and comments.

-RMH

PS - you guys have started the second semester on point and I'm proud of you.