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How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapters 10, 19 -20 • Rain and

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapters 10, 19 -20 • Rain and Snow • Geography • Seasons

So what does it mean if it rains or snows? Rainbows and fog? Rain:

So what does it mean if it rains or snows? Rainbows and fog? Rain: Cleansing Restorative Tone (mysterious, misery) Snow: Clean Stark Severe Inhospitable Playful Suffocating Filthy Fog: Uncertainty Rainbow: Peace Divinity Unique/uncommon

What about geography? When and where count as geography (places, time periods, directions) Hills,

What about geography? When and where count as geography (places, time periods, directions) Hills, rivers, lakes, deserts Politics, history, economics People (characters) Plot device

And Seasons? Spring: birth, youth Summer: adolescence, experimentation Fall: middle age/knowledge Winter: end of

And Seasons? Spring: birth, youth Summer: adolescence, experimentation Fall: middle age/knowledge Winter: end of life, death What emotions can we equate with the seasons?

Read the 2 poems and “annolight” as you read them. Then answer: How do

Read the 2 poems and “annolight” as you read them. Then answer: How do weather, geography and seasons affect your understanding and interpretations of the poem (individually)? How do weather, geography and seasons connect the 2 poems? How do they divide the poems? Both are about snow and winter and walking through the woods (most basic idea). What is the tone of each? How is the tone similar and/or different in each poem?

More connections: How do weather, geography and seasons affect your understanding and interpretations of

More connections: How do weather, geography and seasons affect your understanding and interpretations of “Where are you going, where have you been? ”?