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Reading to do before class / Class activity |
Poems to prepare for discussion |
Writing due |
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Sept 21 |
Introduction |
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Sept 23 |
Introduction 1-17
Ch. 1 Reading Poetry 21-49 |
Hayden, Those Winter Sundays 23
Updike, Dog's Death 24
Barreca, Nighttime Fires 42
Collins, Introduction to Poetry 45 |
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Sept 28 |
Ch. 2 Writing about Poetry 60-67
Ch. 1 (cont.)
Ch. 26 Reading & Writing 677-700
/ Discuss Paper #1 assignment (explication) |
Bishop, Manners 62
Farries, Magic of Love 44
Nims, Love Poem 44
Parker, Snapping Beans 51 |
Quiz |
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Sept 30 |
Ch. 3 Word Choice, Word Order, and
Tone 68-86
/ Discuss group presentations assignment |
Jarrell, Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 71
Marvell, To His Coy Mistress 81
Olds, Sex without Love 93
Brooks, We Real Cool 98 |
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3 |
M
Oct 5 |
Ch.
4 Images 109-18
/Discuss Reading Response #1 assignment |
Whitman, Cavalry Crossing a Ford 112
Arnold, Dover Beach 115
Owen, Dulce et Decorum
Est 122
Song, The White Porch 129 |
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Oct 7 |
Ch. 5 Figures of Speech 133-43 |
Shakespeare, From Macbeth 134
Plath, Mirror 146
Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 150
Magarrell, The Joy of Cooking 153 |
Paper
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4 |
M
Oct 12 |
Ch. 6 Symbol, Allegory, and Irony
156-64
Discuss Group Presentations assignment |
Robinson, Richard Cory 161
Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar 169
Stafford, Traveling through the Dark 169
Alexie, On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City 174 |
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Oct 14 |
Ch. 7 Sounds 183-96
Ch. 28 Taking Essay Examinations
736-40 |
Anonymous, Scarborough Fair 184
Hopkins, God's Grandeur 194
Carroll, Jabberwocky 200
Pope, From An Essay on Criticism 204 |
Reading
Responses #1 |
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M
Oct 19 |
Ch. 8 Patterns of Rhythm 215-22 |
Burns, Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question 227
Blake, The Tyger 229
Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade 231
Roethke, My Papa's Waltz 233 |
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Oct 21 |
Ch. 9 Poetic Forms 237-66 |
Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 241
Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us 242
Peacock, Desire 245
Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 247 |
Midterm
Exam |
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M
Oct 26 |
Ch. 10 Open Form 267-87 |
Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow 273
Trethewey, Domestic Work, 1937 274
Hass, A Story about the Body 278
Olds, Rite of Passage 279
Justice, Order in the Streets 287 |
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Oct 28 |
Ch. 11 Combining the Elements of
Poetry 288-98
Ch. 27 The Literary Research Paper
713-35
/ Discuss Paper #2 assignment (literary
research) |
Donne, Death Be Not Proud 290
Frost, Mowing 357
Frost, Mending Wall 359 |
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M
Nov 2 |
Ch. 12 A Study of Emily Dickinson
301-24 |
#324 Some keep the Sabbath going to church 315
#249 Wild Nights—Wild Nights! 318
#303 The Soul selects her own Society— 321
#435 Much Madness is divinest Sense 321
#341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes—
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Reading
Responses #2 |
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W
Nov 4 |
Billy Collins, The Trouble with
Poetry 1-42 |
(all
poems) |
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M
Nov 9 |
Billy Collins, The Trouble with
Poetry 43-85 |
(all
poems) |
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W
Nov 11 |
Veterans Day Holiday—No
class |
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9 |
M
Nov 16 |
Ch. 14 A Study of Langston Hughes
388-404 |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 393
Negro 398
The Weary Blues 401
Cross 403
Formula 403 |
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Nov 18 |
Ch. 14 Langston Hughes 404-24 |
Lenox Avenue: Midnight 404
Song for a Dark Girl 405
Harlem 411
Un-American Investigators 412
Dinner Guest: Me 415 |
Paper
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10 |
M
Nov 23 |
Ch. 16 A Critical Case Study: T. S. Eliot's "The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
453-71 |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 456 |
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Nov 25 |
Ch. 18 A Thematic Case Study: Love
and Longing 489-500
/ Discuss choices for last day of
class |
Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 490
Shakespeare, Sonnet 55, Not marble, nor the gilded
monuments 491
Browning, How Do I Love Thee? 493
Cummings, Since Feeling Is First 495
Murray, Play-by-Play 498 |
Quiz |
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M
Nov 30 |
Ch. 20 A Thematic Case Study: Humor
and Satire 516-33 |
Wallace, In a Rut 520
Pastan, Jump Cabling 522
Lux, Commercial Leech Farming Today 528
Lauinger, Marvell Noir 531
Bukowski, poetry readings 532 |
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Dec 2 |
Ch. 22 An Album of Contemporary Poems
555
Ch. 23 An Album of World Literature
570
Ch. 24 A Collection of Poems 585
/ Course review; course evaluation |
(to be chosen by all) |
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12 |
M
Dec 7 |
Final Examination |
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Final
Exam |
