For Thursday, January 8

Who is the artist?

Annotate "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats.  Make sure you highlight or underline phrases and literary devices that demonstrate "longing."  You MUST write your explanation as to how and why the highlighted sections communicate longing.

Here is a sample of a quality quotation sandwich minus the context.  For your annotations, you do not need to be this exact, but you need to have notes that will get you here quickly.
  
The speaker's claim to "have been half in love with easeful Death" alludes to his fascination with death, and since this captivating death is described as "easeful" and "with no pain," readers can assume that the speaker longs for a romanticized death that has more to do with escape and beauty than reality and suffering.   

Next, read Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby.  Annotate for the same tone-one of longing.  I also want you to highlight and annotate any examples of juxtaposition within the text.
 

Juxtaposition

Definition: 

Juxtaposition is a literary device wherein the author places a person, concept, place, idea or theme parallel to another. The purpose of juxtaposing two directly or indirectly related entities close together in literature is to highlight the contrast between the two and compare them. This literary device is usually used for etching out a character in detail, creating suspense or lending a rhetorical effect.

Example: 

In Paradise Lost, Milton has used juxtaposition to draw a parallel between the two protagonists, Satan and God, who he discusses by placing their traits in comparison with one another to highlight their differences.