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21 Dec 2022

Directions: Use evidence from the article AND Dylan's lyrics to prepare points for a debate on the following questions:

1. Are song lyrics poetry?

2. Should Bob Dylan have won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

3. How does Word Choice play a role in high-quality poetry?

Prepare all of your arguments, including evidence and explanations in the table below.

 

Claim (An answer the questions above)	Evidence (Quotations from the article OR the song lyrics)	Explanation (Explanation of how and why this evidence supports your CLAIM)
1. Are song lyrics poetry?
2. Should Bob Dylan have won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
3. How does Word Choice play a role in high-quality poetry?

Text Selection

Renaissance

1300-1600

Time period when art, literature, and ideas became very important and a lot of art was produced

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud

BY JOHN DONNE

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee do go,

Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,

And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well

And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.