In the event you’ve misplaced or forgotten your packet for the Politics and Protest
unit, you can download the readings here. The first assignment, for Monday, April 8th is to read the pieces by Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine.
Make sure to thoroughly annotate the articles, looking for:
Well, sort of.
These I singing in spring collect for lovers,
(For who but I should understand lovers and all their sorrow and joy?
And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)
Collecting I traverse the garden the world, but soon I pass the gates,
Now along the pond-side, now wading in a little, fearing not the wet,
Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there,
pick’d from the fields, have accumulated,
(Wild-flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones and
partly cover them, beyond these I pass,)
Far, far in the forest, or sauntering later in summer, before I
think where I go,
