Literary Research Project and fixed forms poems

This week, your priority is to continue to work on your literary research project paper. Please allow time for drafting and revising. Also, I would strongly recommend you read an exemplar paper (or two!). Also, make sure to consult the rubric which I sent you in Google. It also appears here on the blog post for 3/17.

Meanwhile, in poetlandia, we are going to try our hand at one other fixed form poem.

Here are rules for a sestina:
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue197/sestina.html

Here is an example of a sestina:
http://faculty.washington.edu/rmcnamar/383/bishop.html

Here are the rules for a Shakespearean sonnet:
http://www.sonnetwriters.com/how-to-write-a-sonnet/

Here is a famous example from Shakespeare:
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/18.html

You'll choose one of these fixed forms and write your own original sonnet or sestina. This work will be done in class, as your out-of-class hours will be spent on your masterpiece. You are welcome.