Language, gender and culture What questions do Chira’s, Brooks’s, and Young’s titles raise for you?
What does Lorde’s title tell you about the topic and purpose of her chapter?
Read only the first two paragraphs of each of the four longer texts (Chira, Brooks, Young, and Lorde).
· What predictions can you make about each text based on the opening paragraphs?
· What questions do those paragraphs raise for you that you hope the reading will answer?
· Based on only the first two paragraphs of each text, what can you infer about the audiences and purposes each author seems to have imagined for his or her text? Explain.

This excerpt is from “the poet” by alfred, lord tennyson. the poem describes a poet's consciousness and perception. which three lines suggest the richness of a poet's thoughts? thus truth was multiplied on truth, [the world like one great garden show'd,] and thro' the wreaths of floating dark upcurl'd, rare sunrise flow'd. [and freedom rear'd in that august sunrise] her beautiful bold brow, when rites and forms before his burning eyes melted like snow. [there was no blood upon her maiden robes] sunn'd by those orient skies; but round about the circles of the globes of her keen eyes and in her raiment's hem was traced in flame wisdom, a name to shake [all evil dreams of power--a sacred name.] and when she spake, [her words did gather thunder as they ran,] and as the lightning to the thunder which follows it, riving the spirit of man, making earth wonder, so was their meaning to her words. no sword of wrath her right arm whirl'd, [ but one poor poet's scroll, and with 'his' word] she shook the world.