2202242 Introduction to the Study of English Poetry
Student Presentation Sign-Up Sheet
At the beginning of each class, a few of you will each give a 5-minute introduction to the class according to your chosen topic. These presentations should layout your idea or argument about the topic that engages your friends in close-reading and critical thinking of the day’s reading material. Prepare also some questions on interesting points for further conversation and allow some time for class discussion.
Each of you will be giving three five-minute presentations to help us start the lesson. They are:
1. Poetry World: Explore the world of poetry. How did it begin? Where is poetry? What can poetry do? Is poetry still relevant in the 21st century? Choose to discuss an issue in one of the topics on poetry listed below.
2. Literary Tool Chest: Introduce your friends to the various art of verbal expression. Choose a literary term to explain to your classmates, with examples.
3. The Hit List: What do you find to be common problems among yourselves in reading and writing about poetry? Give friendly help to your classmates.
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poetry in Ancient Egypt deaf poetry poetry in prisons Burmese poetry poetry and war poetry in ancient China poetry and therapy poetry and children poetry in Botswana poetry is reality poetry is fantasy poetry and science poetry and politics poetry and religion poetry in Bengal poetry and music Explore: Scriabin, The Poem of Ecstasy |
commercialization of poetry poetry and theory Latin poetry Homer Madhusudan Dutta Silver Age of Russian poetry future of poetry |
metaphor personification apostrophe overstatement understatement allusion metonymy synecdoche paradox symbol allegory irony alliteration assonance consonance onomatopoeia rhyme meter and foot sonnet limerick ballad ode carpe diem |
spelling verb-noun agreement capitalization noun-pronoun agreement using informal expressions word form wrong word absolute statements being vague, broad, too general logic dangling modifier run-on sentence parallelism cliches showing v. telling repetition coherence, unity substantiation, use of sources tense wordiness clarity punctuation organization |
Schedule
November 21
Discussion: Talking Big, Talking Small: Overstatement, Understatement
Student Presentation 1: Navanat (poetry and music)
Student Presentation 2:
Student Presentation 3:
Student Presentation 4:
November
23
Discussion: intertextuality: allusion
Student Presentation 5: Phavit (sonnet)
Student Presentation 6: Panjaporn (meter and foot)
Student Presentation 7: Plyor (?)
November 28
Discussion: intertextuality: allusion; words and associations: metonymy
Student Presentation 8: Papaporn (poetry and children)
Student Presentation 9: Nawaporn M. (personification)
Student Presentation 10: Pritzana (allegory)
Student Presentation 11: Parima (poetry and therapy)
Student Presentation 12: Pancharle (allusion)
November
30
Discussion: words and associations: synecdoche
Student Presentation 13: Phantida (Literary Tool Chest: metonymy)
Student Presentation 14: Porncharas (Literary Tool Chest: paradox)
Student Presentation 15: Plyor (metonymy v. metaphor)
Student Presentation 16: Neeranuch (poetry and children: nursery rhymes)
December 7
Discussion: imagining impossibility: paradox; words and meaning: symbol
Student Presentation 17: Phavit (Poetry World: poetry in Ancient Egypt)
Student Presentation 18: Papaorn (Literary Tool Chest: symbol)
Student Presentation 19: Papawarin (?)
Student Presentation 20: Pleowadee (?)
December
12
Discussion: imagining impossibility: paradox; words and meaning: symbol
Student Presentation 21: Navanat (Literary Tool Chest: irony)
Student Presentation 22: Panjaporn (Poetry World: Homer)
Student Presentation 23: Tanadcha (Poetry World: poetry in prisons)
Student Presentation 24: Parima (?)
December 19
Discussion: words and meaning: verbal and dramatic irony
Student Presentation 25: Pawinrat (Literary Tool Chest: verbal and dramatic irony)
Student Presentation 26: Papaporn (The Hit List: punctuation)
Student Presentation 27: Tanyalak (The Hit List: wrong word)
Student Presentation 28: Parima (?)
Student Presentation 29: Thanchanok (Poetry World: poetry is fantasy)
Student Presentation 30: Phantida (?)
December
21
Discussion: words and meaning: situational irony
Student
Presentation 31: Nutcha (Poetry World: poetry and religion)
Student Presentation 32: Naruporn (Literary Tool Chest: carpe diem)
Student Presentation 33:
January 2
Discussion: prose paraphrase
Student Presentation 34: Phantida (?)
Student Presentation 35: Pochamarn (Literary Tool Chest: ballad)
Student Presentation 36: Porncharas (The Hit List: verb-noun agreement)
Student Presentation 37:
January 4
Discussion: words and sounds: repetition, refrain, alliteration, assonance, consonance
Student Presentation 38: Navanat (The Hit List: being vague, broad, too general)
Student Presentation 39: Phavit (The Hit List: cliche)
Student Presentation 40: Panjaporn (The Hit List: showing v. telling)
January 16
Discussion: sound and meaning: onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter, foot, scansion
Student Presentation 41: Pawinrat (The Hit List: logic)
Student Presentation 42: Pancharle (Poetry World: poetry in ancient China)
Student Presentation 43: Nawaporn M. (?)
Student Presentation 44: Porncharas (Poetry World: poetry and science)
Student Presentation 45: Pleowadee (?)
Student Presentation 46: Papawarin (?)
January
23
Discussion: forms and types of poetry: limerick, epic, romance
Student Presentation 47: Tanyalak (Poetry World: deaf poetry)
Student Presentation 48: Tanadcha (The Hit List: repetition)
Student Presentation 49: Patcharanan (Poetry World: poetry and politics)
January
25
Discussion: ballads
Student Presentation 50: Plyor (?)
Student Presentation 51 Pritzana (Poetry World: poetry and war)
Student Presentation 52: Pancharle (The Hit List: spelling)
January 30
Discussion: lyric, elegy, ode
Student Presentation 53: Naruporn (?)
Student Presentation 54: Nawaporn M. (?)
Student Presentation 55: Patcharanan (Literary Tool Chest: rhyme)
Student Presentation 56: Pochamarn (The Hit List: unity)
Student Presentation 57: Neeranuch (?)
February
1
Discussion: the interpretation of poetry: theme; tyranny and suppression
Student Presentation 58: Tanyalak (Literary Tool Chest: ballad)
Student Presentation 59: Pritzana (The Hit List: using informal expressions)
Student Presentation 60: Tanadcha (Literary Tool Chest: overstatement)
February 6
Discussion: the interpretation of poetry: theme; tyranny and suppression, mothers and their children
Student Presentation 61: Pawinrat (Poetry World: poetry and war)
Student Presentation 62: Pleowadee (Poetry World: poetry is reality)
Student Presentation 63: Papawarin (?)
Student Presentation 64: Patcharanan (The Hit List: capitalization)
Student Presentation 65: Nutcha (The Hit List: dangling modifier)
February 13
Discussion: the interpretation of poetry: theme; mothers and their children
Student Presentation 66: Naruporn (?)
Student Presentation 67: Pochamarn (?)
Student Presentation 68: Neeranuch (?)
Student Presentation 69:
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