Salvete Honorēs Latinitate V ad Paschalem Scholam!
Welcome to Honors Latin V at Paschal High School!
In 2022-2023 we will explore the genre of lyric poetry.
We start by examining lyric genre theory through readings from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture resource, The Prospect of Lyric.
Students will apply their understanding to a chosen modern poem; writing poems in different formats (haiku, sonnet, villanelle, etc.) will be part of the class throughout the year.
Our first Latin text will be the Carmina Burana, medieval songs about life and the vicissitudes of Fortuna set to music by Carl Orff in 1937.
Our principal author will be Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 BC/E-54 BC/E), a contemporary of Caesar
and Rome's first great lyric poet.
We will read his poems of longing, love, and loss as we consider how he uses meter and literary devices to underscore his meaning.
