January 25 - 29

January 25

Lamb
"Old China"

Email me a Vocaroo or VoiceGem that comments on the theme and structure of "Old China"

January 26

Skype meeting at 8pm

Byron
"On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"
"She Walks in Beauty"

Bonus Opportunity
Write a four stanza "romantic" poem using the same rhyme scheme used in Byron's poems. Post it to your blog using the subject line "Byron Poem" and explain how it is "romantic" in one of the following ways:

1. Individual over group perceptions
2. Imagination and feeling over reason
3. The natural over the artificial

"Truth is stranger than fiction" (Canto 14)

January 27-29
Spiritual Emphasis Week

Resources
Lord Byron, 19th-Century Bad Boy