Objectives:
This course is designed to introduce you to various forms of poetry in English and to improve 1xbet best casino website critical skills in reading and writing. As we read poets from the Renaissance to the present day, we will develop a vocabulary for talking about poetry while we study the formal elements of poetry and the persistence of several thematic concerns. We will talk about writing in class, through peer reviews, and individually in conference.
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During the semester 1xbet best casino website will write four papers of varying lengths. 1xbet best casino website will revise the first two of these papers for a final paper grade. Failure to produce a good faith effort on a draft will result in a grade penalty on the graded version. Upon consultation with me, 1xbet best casino website may also choose to revise any paper for which 1xbet best casino website receive lower than a "C" grade. Grades for further revisions will be counted as another paper grade, not substituted for or averaged with the first 1xbet best casino website received.
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Once a week, you will hand in at the beginning of class a typed, double-spaced response paper (1-2 pages) to one of the two or three poems designated by an asterisk on the syllabus. Response papers are due the day we begin our discussion; they are intended to help to prepare you for class discussion and improve 1xbet best casino website critical reading and writing skills.
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Attendance and class participation are required. More than two unexcused absences will be reflected in 1xbet best casino website final grade for the course; these two excused absences should be reserved for unexpected illnesses or family emergencies. Each absence over the allotted absences will lower 1xbet best casino website 1xbet best casino website course 1xbet best casino website by one 1xbet best casino website increment (e.g., B to B-).
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Make an outline of 1xbet best casino website discussion, including the passage(s) you intend to focus on, and the questions you will ask. 1xbet best casino website outline needs to reach me 24 hours in advance of class: email it to me or put it in my box in Benson.
Garland Lab Sessions:
Over the course of the semester we will meet about six times in the Garland Microcomputer Lab, where 1xbet best casino website will participate in various activities using the Daedalus Integrated Writing Program (DIWE). For each of these sessions 1xbet best casino website will need to bring an IBM-formatted computer disk.
Conferences:
1xbet best casino website will all meet with me individually after the first paper and before the fourth paper, but I am always available for conferences. Please feel free to stop by during Office Hours (MW 1-2 pm, TR 11-12 noon), or to arrange a more convenient time to meet.
Grading:
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R 15 Imagery and Figures of Speech (Abrams 36-7, 66-70): Eliot, "Preludes"*; Heaney, "Digging"
MEET IN GARLAND COMPUTER LAB
T 20 Keats, "To Autumn"; Dickinson, #280 ("I Felt a Funeral in my Brain") Sound, Meter, Rhyme (Abrams 138-9, 112-7, 184-7): Blake, "London"*
R 22 1xbet best casino website Workshop: 1st 1xbet best casino website Due (3 pp, 3 copies)
MEET IN GARLAND COMPUTER LAB
T 27 Poetic Forms: The 1xbet best casino website (Abrams 197-8): Spenser, 1xbet best casino website #75*; Sidney, 1xbet best casino website #1; Drayton, 1xbet best casino website #6; Shakespeare, Sonnets #18 and #130; Wordsworth, "Scorn Not the 1xbet best casino website "; Keats, "On the 1xbet best casino website "
R 29 ...and Variations (Abrams 34-5): Frost, "Design"*; Hollander, "Swan and Shadow"*; Apollinaire, "Rain" (x); Baudelaire, "Get Drunk" (x); Swenson, "Cardinal Ideograms"
Revision of 1st 1xbet best casino website Due
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T 10 Love and Desire: Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"; Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"*; Donne, "Elegy XIX. To His Mistress Going to Bed"*
R 12 Millay, "I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed"; Frost, "To Earthward"* and "The Subverted Flower" (x)
T 17 Yeats, "Adam's Curse"*; Atwood, "Variations on the Word Love" (x)
MEET IN GARLAND COMPUTER LAB
R 19 Dialogues: Frost, "Birches"* and "Wild Grapes" (x)*
F 20 Revision of 2nd 1xbet best casino website Due at 12 noon.
T 24 Frost, "Home Burial" (x)*; Morrissey, "Birches" (x); Carver, "The Gift" (x)
R 26 Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"*
SPRING BREAK / FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 8
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T 17 "The Waste Land" (Part II* and III) R 19 "The Waste Land" (Part IV* and V*)
F 20 3rd 1xbet best casino website Due (5 pp) at 12 noon.
T 24 "(No 1xbet best casino website / but in things)" (Abrams 88): W.C. Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "A Sort of Song"*; Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"; H.D., "Sea Rose" and "Garden" (x)
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R 26 Roethke, "Dolor" (x)*; Simic, "The Cold" (x) and "Shirt" (x); America: "The American Dream" from The United States of 1xbet best casino website " (handout)
T 31 Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"*; Sandburg, "Chicago"
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T 7 Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask"*; Cullen, "Incident"; Waller and Razaf, "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" (x)*; Soyinka, "Telephone Conversation"
R 9 Hughes, "Harlem," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Harlem Sweeties," and "Theme for English B"*
T 14 Rich, "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law"*; Swenson, "Motherhood"
MEET IN GARLAND COMPUTER LAB
R 16 Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"*; Atwood, "Spelling" (x); Levine, "What Work Is" (x)*, "Soloing" (x)
T 21 Conclusion and Review
Take Home 1xbet best casino website Exam Due April 28