October 24 (t) finish Moby

October 26 (r) Quiz Unit II

October 31 (t) Begin Battle Pieces: Introd. and thru to "Donelson"

November 2 (r) Read thru to and including "Gettysburg"

November 7 (t) Read thru to and including "The College Colonel,"
                    Log Entry #4 due
November 9 (r) Read thru to including "Rebel Color-Bearers at Shiloh."

November 14 (t) Read thru the end and to the Supplement at the end.

November 16 (r) Battle-Pieces and Log Entry #5 due
 

General Information
Antietam
Shiloh
Chancellorsville

        Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
       Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
        But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we can not hallow--this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Nov. 19, 1863.

Compare Abraham Lincoln's rhetoric to Melville's poetic rendering of the same hallowed ground. While a dedication and a poem have different aims, how and where is the rhetoric similar? Where and how does it differ? To what emotion(s) does the speech appeal? The poem? What does the poem recount, and why is it important, according to the poem's understanding? List at the end any words in either speech or poem you did not understand, along with their meaning.

Log Entry #5--

Choose a poem we have not discussed in class and 1. type it out 2. comment on the rhyme-scheme--is there a regular pattern of rhyme? how is alliteration used, or not? what other patterns of repetition are being used? 3. recount the poem in your own narrative--what is happening? what scene or emotion is it zeroing in on? 4. research the historical context for this poem, and offer historical comment on the poem's mise-en-scene.