Eng 106: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY- Stacey Donohue

What is Literature?

Chapter One: Reading a Poem

Rich/ Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"

Browning/"My Last Duchess"

Stafford/"Ask Me"

Assignment #1 due (next week on Weds)

Chapter Two: Listening to Voice

Roethke/"My Papa's Waltz"

Arnold/"Dover Beach" (from anthology section)

Hughes/"Theme for English B" (from anthology)

Choose final project poem

Bradstreet/"The Author to Her Book"

The Person in the Poem

Irony

Auden/"The Unknown Citizen"

Owen/"Dulce et Decorum Est"

Eliot/"Love Song.... (from anthology section)

Chapter Three: Literal Meaning and Word Choice

Williams/"This is Just to Say

Assignment #2 due

Cummings/"Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town"

Carroll/"Jabberwocky"

Read Donne poem (handout from Wed)

Donne/"Death Be Not Proud"

Donne/"The Flee"

Hayden/"Those Winter Sundays" (anthology)

Heany/"Digging (anthology)

Carver poem (handout)

Imagery

Assignment #3 due

Chapter 5: Imagery and Haiku

Pound/"In a Station."

Coleridge/"Kubla Khan (in anthology section)

Chapter 6: Why Speak Figuratively?; Metaphor/Simile; Other Figures

Plath/"Metaphors"

Wordsworth/"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (from Chapter 2)

Assignment #4 due

Writers" Perspective: On the Importance of Poetic Metaphor

Shakespeare/"Shall I Compare Thee...Ó

Dickinson/"My Life had stood...

Atwood/"You fit into me"

Marvell/"To His Coy Mistress" (anthology)

Updike/"Ex Basketball Player" (anthology)

Bring your syllabus book, notes, and Final Project in progress

Assignment #5

Bring in the lyrics (typed) to a song

Chapter 7: Song (read all)

 

Assignment #6 due

 

Group Analysis due

Chapter 8:Sound

Hopkins/"God's Grandeur"

Shakespeare/"Full Fathom Five

Chapter 9: Rhythm

Parker/"Resume"

Houseman/"When I Was One and Twenty"

Brooks/"We Real Cool"

Assignment #7 due

Chapter 16

(plus handout)

Chapter 10: Closed Form

Donne/

Millay/"What My Lips."

Thomas/"Do Not Go Gentle."

Bishop/"Sestina"

Assignment #8 due

Chapter 11: Open Form

Cummings/"Buffalo Bill"

Cummings/"In Just"

Clifton/"Homage to my Hips"

Ginsberg/"A Supermarket in California" (anthology)

Chapter 12: Symbol

Matthew/"The Parable..."

Dickinson/"I heard a fly buzz."

Frost/"The Road Not Taken"

Rossetti/"Uphill"

Assignment #9 due

Chapter 13: Myth

Frost/"Nothing Gold Can Stay"

Wordsworth/"The World Is Too Much With Us"

Field/"Curse of the Cat Woman"

Sexton/"Cinderella"

Chapter 14: Poetry and Personal Identity

Plath/Lady Lazarus

Alvarez/The women on my mother's side

McKay/America

Hughes/Dream Deferred (anthology)

Rose/For the White Poets...

Erdrich/"Indian Boarding School" (anthology)

Alexi/"On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City" (handout)

Assignment #10 due

Bring Final Project

Bring your syllabus, book, notes, etc.