Date | Readings | Asssignments |
F 8/29 |
Introduction |
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M 9/1 |
Labor Day |
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W 9/3 |
Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing (Norton, 1-26) |
Free Writing |
F 9/5 |
Close Reading: Tennyson, “Ulysses” (N, 576) |
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M 9/8 |
Chapter One: “Tone” (27-37) Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” (N, 529) |
Free Writing |
W 9/10 |
Chapter Two: “Speaker” (68-79) |
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F 9/12 |
Close Reading: Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (N, 538) recording |
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M 9/15 |
Chapter Three: “Situation and Setting” (93-105) |
Free Writing |
W 9/17 |
“Times” and “Places” |
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F 9/19 |
Close Reading: Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” (N, 587) |
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M 9/22 |
Chapter Four “Language” (129-140) |
Free Writing |
W 9/24 |
"Versification" (e-reserve) |
Recitation 1 Due |
F 9/26 |
Close Reading: Stevens, “The Idea of Order at Key West” (568) |
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M 9/29 |
“Picturing” (153-65) Shelley, “On Looking at Leonardo’s Medusa” (online) "The Lady of Shalott" illustration |
Homo-linguistic Translation Due |
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 | |
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) |
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) |
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 | |
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) |
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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) |
MARBL Presentation Group 1 (Duffy) wiki |
M 11/10 | Chapter Eleven: Literary Tradition as Context (382-409) | |
W 11/12 |
“Cultural Belief and Tradition” (410-420) Walcott, “Dry Season” (517); from Omeros 38 (e-reserve) |
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F 11/14 |
Seamus Heaney, "Punishment" (313) Close Reading: "Strange Fruit" |
MARBL Presentation Group 2 (Heaney) wiki |
M 11/17 | “Cultural and Historical Contexts: The Harlem Renaissance” (432-442) | Proposal for Research Paper |
W 11/19 | Essays (442-464) | |
F 11/21 |
Close Reading: Langston Hughes "The Weary Blues" 436 Wiki: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" |
MARBL Presentation Group 3 (L. Hughes) wiki |
M 11/24 |
Chapter Thirteen: Sylvia Plath (466-470) |
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W 11/26 | No Class | |
F 11/28 | Thanksgiving | |
M 12/1 | Chapter Fourteen: The Process of Creation (497-507) | |
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 |
MARBL Presentation Group 4 (Hughes/Plath)wiki |
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 |