Warm-Up & Freewrite

1.) Close reading is the act of analyzing a text very closely and trying to interpret hidden meanings or discovering how the text makes one feel or respond. It is the act of looking deeper at each word to find true meanings or meanings that are to be implied, and might otherwise go unnoticed if one were to skim or read quickly. It is something one usually does for an academic purpose, rather than while reading for pleasure.

2.) I think pastoral means fatherly in a spirtiual sense, like a pastor. I think it is a way someone would be described who is good at guiding, helping, or comforting someone. OED defines pastoral as an adjective as "relating to the tending of livestock" and as a noun as "a person or thing associated with spiritual care." it comes from the Latin word, pastoralis, referring to tending to livestock or relating to a pastor or minister.

Mistress, to me, has two meanings. I think it can be defined as a young lady, maybe who a man is trying to pursue, or what a man would call the woman they are in love with. On the other hand, mistress presently can refer to a woman who a married man is having an affair with. She could be more presently known as "the other woman." OED defines this word as a noun as "A woman having control or authority" and it comes from the Anglo-Norman and Middle French words maistresse, mestresse and also post-classical Latin magistrissa .



Shepherd- peaceful, quiet, calm, tender, caring, lonely, feeding flocks, canes, old men, pensive

Desert- dy, hot, sand, vast, vacant, red sky, silent

Universe- open, vast, spacious, stars, huge, all-encompassing, sky, dark blues and blacks, celestial, silent, wondrous