just finished this with AP juniors and Honors Brit Lit Students: great project for poetry reading skills. they wrote an in class explication about their sonnet after. will memorize and recite their sonnet as well next year. They rocked it! we are ready for the Romantics now.
one fo my all time favorite lit blogs--what's not to like about BETTER LIVING THROUGH BEOWULF??????
read it jsut for the sheer joy of recognizing another soul who finds his /her religion in literature