| Date |
Readings |
Asssignments |
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F 8/29
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Introduction
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M 9/1
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Labor Day
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W 9/3
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Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing (Norton, 1-26)
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Free Writing
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F 9/5
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Close Reading: Tennyson, “Ulysses” (N, 576)
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wiki
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M 9/8
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Chapter One: “Tone” (27-37)
Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” (N, 529)
Williams, "This is Just To Say" (143)
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Free Writing |
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W 9/10
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Chapter Two: “Speaker” (68-79)
Lorde, “Hanging Fire” (N, 79-80)
Whitman, “[I celebrate myself, and sing myself]” (N, 82)
Plath, “Mirror” (N, 86)
Duffy, “Mrs. Midas” (N, 90)
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F 9/12
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Close Reading: Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (N, 538) recording
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wiki
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M 9/15
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Chapter Three: “Situation and Setting” (93-105)
Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (N, 106-7)
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Free Writing
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W 9/17
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“Times” and “Places”
Shakespeare, “Full Many a glorious morning have I seen” (N, 114)
Collins, “Morning” (N, 116)
Plath, “Morning Song” (N, 115)
Bogan, “Evening in the Sanitarium”(119-20)
Walcott, “Midsummer” (124)
Oliver, “Singapore” (126)
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F 9/19
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Close Reading: Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” (N, 587)
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wiki
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M 9/22
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Chapter Four “Language” (129-140)
Muldoon, “Errata” (141)
Dickinson, “[I dwell in possibility]” (142)
Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” (142)
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Free Writing
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W 9/24
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"Versification" (e-reserve)
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Recitation 1 Due
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F 9/26
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Close Reading: Stevens, “The Idea of Order at Key West” (568)
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wiki
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M 9/29
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“Picturing” (153-65)
Shelley, “On Looking at Leonardo’s Medusa” (online)
Tennyson, “Mariana"(online) illustration
"The Lady of Shalott" illustration
Lowell, “Patterns” (online)
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Homo-linguistic Translation Due
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| W 10/1 |
"Metaphor and Simile” (165-172)
Shakespeare, “[Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?]” (173)
Boland, “An Elegy for My Mother in Which She Scarcely Appears” (N, 179),
Dickinson, “[Wild Nights – Wild Nights!]” (182)
Pound, "In the Station of the Metro" (567) |
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| F 10/3 |
“Symbol” (183-191)
Rich, “Diving into the Wreck" (193-5) |
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| M 10/6 |
Peer Editing |
Draft Due |
| W 10/8 |
Chapter Five: “The Sounds of Poetry” (199-212)
Poe, “The Raven” (212-14)
Roethke, “The Waking” |
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| F 10/10 |
Poetry and Sound cont |
Paper 1 Due |
| M 10/13 |
Fall Break |
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| W 10/15 |
Chapter Six: Internal Structure” (231-242)
Williams, “The Dance” (246-7)
Pinsky, “Poem with Lines in Any Order (Poem)” (253-4)
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| F 10/17 |
Close Reading: Ashbery, “Paradoxes and Oxymorons” (526)
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wiki |
| M 10/20 |
Chapter Seven: “External Form” (255-61)
D.G. Rossetti, “A Sonnet is a Moment’s Monument” (162)
Keats, “On the Sonnet” (261-2)
C. Rossetti, “In an Artist’s Studio” (267)
Brooks, “First Fight. Then Fiddle” (270)
Collins, “Sonnet” (273)
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| W 10/22 |
“Stanza Forms” (274-78)
Bishop, “One Art” (online)
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| F 10/24 |
Close Reading:
Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (244-6)
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wiki |
| M 10/27 |
“The Way a Poem Looks” (280-88)
Mahon, “The Window” (online)
Other Poems TBD
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| W 10/29 |
Library |
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| F 10/31 |
Close Reading: Blake, from Songs of Innocence and Experience (online)
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| M 11/3 |
Chapter Nine: “Exploring Context” (303-309)
Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est” (310-11)
Heaney, “Punishment” (313-4)
Bishop, “Exchanging Hats” (321-22)
Browning, “My Last Duchess” (329-30)
Brooks, “To the Diaspora” (529)
Williams, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (online)
Auden, “Musee des Beaux Arts” (295)
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| W 11/5 |
John Keats (342-355)
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| F 11/7 |
Close Reading:
Duffy, "Mrs. Sisyphus" (218-219)(wiki)
Duffy, "Mrs. Midas" (90-91)
Duffy, "Elvis's Twin Sister" (online)
www.williamhoward.cumbria.sch.uk/intranet/English/KS_4/course_elements/poetry/duffy.htm#Elviss%20Twin%20Sister
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MARBL Presentation Group 1
(Duffy) wiki
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| M 11/10 |
Chapter Eleven: Literary Tradition as Context (382-409) |
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| W 11/12 |
“Cultural Belief and Tradition” (410-420)
Walcott, “Dry Season” (517); from Omeros 38 (e-reserve)
Muldoon, “Meeting the British”
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| F 11/14 |
Seamus Heaney, "Punishment" (313)
"Bog Queen"
Close Reading: "Strange Fruit"
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MARBL Presentation Group 2
(Heaney) wiki
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| M 11/17 |
“Cultural and Historical Contexts: The Harlem Renaissance” (432-442) |
Proposal for Research Paper |
| W 11/19 |
Essays (442-464) |
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| F 11/21 |
Close Reading: Langston Hughes
"The Weary Blues" 436
Wiki: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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MARBL Presentation Group 3
(L. Hughes) wiki
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| M 11/24 |
Chapter Thirteen: Sylvia Plath (466-470)
“Barren Woman” (563)
“Black Rook in Rainy Weather” (564-5)
“Lady Lazarus” (565-67)
"Morning Song"
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| W 11/26 |
No Class |
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| F 11/28 |
Thanksgiving |
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| M 12/1 |
Chapter Fourteen: The Process of Creation (497-507) |
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| W 12/3 |
Draft Workshop |
Draft of Research Paper |
| F 12/5 |
Close Reading: TBD by Group 4
"Thought Fox" by Ted Hughes
Wiki: "Daddy" by Silvia Plath
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MARBL Presentation Group 4
(Hughes/Plath)wiki
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| M 12/8 |
Concluding Thoughts
Final Draft "Stings" (Plath)
Typed draft "Stings" (Hughes)
Final "The Bee God" (Hughes)
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| F 12/12 |
Paper 2 Due |
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