Week 1

Oct. 31

Introduction

Unit 1 Reasons for Reading Poetry

Unit 2 Making Sense of Poems

Reading

• D. H. Lawrence, "Last Lesson of the Afternoon"

  • D. H. Lawrence (biography, interactive timeline, virtual tour, etc.)

  • D. H. Lawrence (brief bio and seven poems)

  • Extended Biography

  • D. H. Lawrence Information (bibliography, biographical information, critical bibliography, websites)

  • "D. H. Lawrence--Student and Teacher" by L. Spolton (Chula campus computer access)

• Alfred Tennyson, "The Eagle"

  • The Tennyson Page

  • Alfred Tennyson (brief bio)

  • Alfred Lord Tennyson: An Overview

• "The Persistence of Poetry" by Peter Hawes (In an era of sound bites and instant communication, a hard-core group of faculty and students still subscribes to the close reading of great verse as a way to help fathom the world around them.)

• "Is Poetry Relevant?" by Kathryn VanSpankeren (essay about poetry in her life)

• "Against National Poetry Month As Such" by Charles Bernstein (article about the commercialization of poetry)

• "Is It Poetry or Is It Verse?" by John Barr (article on good bad poetry, bad bad poetry, serious poetry)

Discussion: art of reading; function of poem; subject matter of poetry; What do you think of Bernstein's views of poetry compared to Barr's?; the art of reading, the function of a poem (p. 1-5); subject matters of poetry (p. 6-7)

Nov. 2

Unit 2 Making Sense of Poems

Reading

• William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

  • Daffodils Bicentenary

  • The Wordsworth Trust (Wordsworth and the Romantics, What's On, Search the Collections, etc.)

  • Charles North reading William Wordsworth's "The Daffodils"

• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, "Marriage"

  • Mary Coleridge (1861-1907): An Overview (especially An Introduction to the Literary Works of Mary Coleridge)

  • Selected Work of Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth (1861-1907) (text of this and other poems)

• Diction: Word Choice

• Connotation/Denotation (with exercise)

• Tone (discussion of tone in poetry, definition excerpts of textbooks)

• Tone (explanation of tone with examples from Many Worlds of Poetry)

Week 2

Nov. 7

Unit 3  Imagery

Reading

• Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"

  • A Brief Guide to Imagism

  • A Brief Guide to Modernism

  • Prose Paraphrase of the poem

  • On "In a Station of the Metro" (critical excerpts on the poem)

  • Pound's Life and Career by Clive Wilmer

• Langston Hughes, "Brass Spittoons"

  • Langston Hughes: Childhood

  • "'Jazzaphobia': Langston Hughes and the Fear of Black Music" by Steven A. Nardi

  • Langston Hughes: Voice Among Voices (curriculum unit)

• Explicit Imagery

• Implicit Images

• Imagery in Poetry (Introduction, Imagery in Poetry Today)

Discussion: words and the senses: imagery; visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory imagery

Nov. 9

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Simile  

Reading

• Emily Dickinson, "There is no frigate like a book" (poem notes; listen to a sound clip of the poem)

  • Emily Dickinson (brief bio)

  • Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) (secondary material)

  • Dickinson Electronic Archives

• Basics of Metaphor and Simile

• Metaphor and Simile (by Tim Love)

Discussion: words and associations: simile; comparing things

Week 3

Nov. 14

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Metaphor, Personification

Reading (coursebook 21-26)

• Robert Francis, "The Hound"

  • Robert Francis (brief introduction, poems)

  • A Poet's Voice Rises from the Archives (feature on NPR's All Things Considered, with Francis reading some excerpts)

• James Stephens, "The Wind"

  • James Stephens (introduction by A. Norman Jeffares)

• C. H. Sisson, "Money"

  • Obituary: C. H. Sisson

• Kalliope: Focus on Metaphor (definitions, examples, exercises)

• Jaron's World: The Meaning of Metaphor (cognitive angle on metaphor)

• Figurative Language

• The Logic of Tropes (metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, etc.)

Study Questions

Robert Francis, "The Hound"

• How does Francis's choice of metaphor express his view of life?

• Look up the word "equivocal" in a dictionary that has etymological information, such as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary or the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).  Is the root meaning of "equivocal" a comment on Francis's own poem?

• Which reveals his attitude about life better?  His metaphors or his conclusion?

James Stephens, "The Wind"

• Notice the connotations of the verbs used to personify the wind.  What do you think of the shift to such a threatening verb ("kill") in the penultimate line? and the even more ominous "will"?

C. H. Sisson, "Money"

• Follow the transformation of money.  What does the play with bedroom imagery/words suggest about the relationship between money and the speaker?

• Do you agree with the speaker that he is deserving of money's embrace as proclaimed in the last line?

Discussion: words and associations: metaphor; making things human: personification

Assignment 1 given

Nov. 16

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Apostrophe  

Reading (coursebook 26-27)

• John Donne, "Death, Be Not Proud" (poem notes)

  • John Donne (brief bio)

  • Death Be Not Proud by John Donne: An Analysis of Donne's Divine Sonnet X

  • Discussion thread on the poem

• Apostrophe

• Apostrophe  (Greek "to turn away")  A figure of speech which consists of addressing an absent or dead person, a thing, or an abstract idea as if it were alive or present. (The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics)

Discussion: making things human: apostrophe

Assignment 1 due beginning of class

Discussion of Assignment 1: Sylvia Plath, "Mirror"

Week 4

Nov. 21

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Overstatement, Understatement

Reading (coursebook 27-30)

• John Donne, "Song: Go and catch a falling star"

• Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice" (1923)

  • On "Fire and Ice" (critical excerpts)

  • Robert Frost (1874-1963) (bio, criticism)

• hyperbole

• litotes

• Examples of Tropes: Overstatement / Understatement

• Figurative Language (with examples)

Discussion: overstatement, understatement

Study Questions:

• Think of Donne's "Song" as a series of ideas or arguments.  How are the arguments different in the three stanzas?  The discussion of this poem in your handout suggests that Donne is making fun of typical romantic overstatements.  They are impossibilities.  What other impossibilities does he poke fun at in the poem?

• Several of Frost's poems are considerations about choice: being presented with choices, having to choose, being tempted by certain choices.  (See "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in conjunction to "Fire and Ice.")  How is Frost playing with the idea of choice here?

Student Presentation 1: Navanat (poetry and music)

Student Presentation 2: 

Student Presentation 3: 

Student Presentation 4: 

Nov. 23

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Allusion

Reading (coursebook 31-32)

• Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" (1923) (further links)

  • "On Robert Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'" by Dana Gioia

  • "Frost's Synecdochic Allusions" (journal article by Gerard Quinn; Chula network access only)

  • "On Understanding Poetry" (transcript of 1955 talk at Middlebury College; Saying that "there's a good deal of sway in my poetry," Frost discusses understanding his and others' poems.)

• Bible

  • Genesis 2.8-25

  • Genesis 3

• Allusion (brief definition with examples)

Discussion: intertextuality: allusion

Student Presentation 5: Phavit (sonnet)

Student Presentation 6: Panjaporn (meter and foot)

Student Presentation 7: Plyor (?)

Week 5

Nov. 28

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Allusion, Metonymy

Reading (coursebook 32-35)

• Queen Elizabeth I, "When I Was Fair and Young, and Favour Graced Me" (1580-1589)

• Sir Walter Scott, "Proud Maisie" (1818)

• Allusion (brief explanation with examples)

• Allusion, Chiasmus, Litotes, Paradox

• Metonymy (explanation with link to databank of metonymy examples) 

• What is metonymy?

• Semiotics for Beginners: Rhetorical Tropes by Daniel Chandler

Discussion: intertextuality: allusion; words and associations: metonymy

Student Presentation 8: Papaporn (Poetry World: poetry and children)

Student Presentation 9: Nawaporn M. (Literary Tool Chest: personification)

Student Presentation 10: Pritzana (Literary Tool Chest: allegory)

Student Presentation 11: Parima (Poetry World: poetry and therapy)

Student Presentation 12: Pancharle (Literary Tool Chest: allusion)

Nov. 30

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Synecdoche

Reading (coursebook 35-38)

Week 6

Dec. 5

No Class (Father's Day)

Dec. 7

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Synecdoche, Paradox

Reading (coursebook 38-39)

• William Blake, "Eternity"

• Queen Elizabeth I, "On Monsieur's Departure" (1582)

  • "On Monsieur's Departure" reading questions

  • "On Monsieur's Departure" (poem comments)

  • Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) (profile, pastimes, women, court life, all the Queen's men, who was who, essays, more)

• Synecdoche and Metonymy (discussion of problems in distinguishing between the two)

Week 7

Dec. 12

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Paradox, Symbol

Reading (coursebook 37-42)

• Emily Dickinson, "Volcanoes be in Sicily" (1914)

  • Guidelines for Reading Dickinson's Poetry (see also Common Questions on Emily Dickinson) 

  • Dickinson Electronic Archives

  • "My Favorite Poet: Emily Dickinson" by Michael Ryan

• William Blake, "The Clod and the Pebble" (1794)

  • The Clod & the Pebble (text and plate of Blake's illustration of the poem)

  • The Clod and the Pebble: Bibliography (several views on the poem)

  • The William Blake Archive

  • Tate Learning: William Blake Online

  • William Blake (1757-1827): Poet, Artist & Engraver

  • Blake Digital Text Project

  • The Visions of William Blake

• Paradox (short definition and example)

• Paradox

• A fun list of oxymorons

• Definition of Symbol (with links to an exercise and studies of two poems)

• "Being Let in On Symbols" (transcript; Robert Frost talks about understanding somebody else's symbols and reads some of his own poetry.)

Discussion: paradox, symbol

Student Presentation 20: Navanat (Literary Tool Chest: irony)

Student Presentation 21: Panjaporn (Poetry World: Homer)

Student Presentation 22: Tanadcha (Poetry World: poetry in prisons)

Student Presentation 23: Parima (Literary Tool Chest: onomatopoiea)

Assignment 2 due beginning of class

Dec. 14

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Allegory

Reading (coursebook 42-43)

• Christina Rossetti, "Up-Hill" (1858)

  • Christina Rossetti - Additional Biographical Information

  • Image and Symbol in Christina Rossetti's Poetry

  • Introductory: Christina Rossetti and the Poetic Vocation

  • Christina Rossetti and the Metaphysics of Spiritual Experience

  • Commentary on the poem

  • Rossetti's Avante-Garde Poetics

  • Death As Release From Pain in Christina Rossetti's Works

  • Metrical Complexity in Christina Rossetti's Verse

• Allegory (short definition)

• Introduction to Medieval Allegory

• Definition of Allegory (with link to allegory exercise)

Discussion: allegory

Week 8

Dec. 19

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Verbal and Dramatic Irony

Reading (coursebook 44-48)

• Sterling Brown, "Southern Cop"

  • Sterling Brown (brief introduction)

  • Introduction (brief bio)

  • Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) (life and career, critical excerpts)

  • Brown's "Southern Cop": Irony and Racism (discussion of poem by Linda Sue Grimes)

• John Betjeman, "In Westminster Abbey"

  • "Unmitigated England" (December 20, 2006 review of Betjeman: A Life and Collected Poems by Adam Kirsch)

  • "Anglicanism and the Poetry of John Betjeman" (March 22, 2004 article in Christianity and Literature by Kevin J. Gardner) 

  • John Betjeman

  • Interviews (audio)

  • The Real John Betjeman

  • Westminster Abbey

  • The Women's Army Corps

  • Betjeman, Sir John (pronunciation of his last name)

• Irony (classical rhetoric)

• Literary Devices: Irony (verbal, dramatic, situational)

• Irony (verbal irony, dramatic irony, irony of situation)

• Irony (dramatic, structural, verbal)

• Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Irony

• Ironies and Paradoxes (paper by Hugh Bredin)

• Dramatic Irony

Discussion: verbal, dramatic irony

Student Presentation 24: Pawinrat (Literary Tool Chest: verbal and dramatic irony)

Student Presentation 25: Papaporn (punctuation)

Student Presentation 26: Tanyalak (The Hit List: wrong word)

Student Presentation 27: Parima (Literary Tool Chest: free verse and blank verse)

Student Presentation 28: Thanchanok (poetry is fantasy)

Student Presentation 29: Phantida (parallelism)

Dec. 21

Unit 4  Figures of Speech: Situational Irony

Reading (coursebook 48-49)

• M. Carl Holman, "Mr. Z"

  • "Carl Holman, 69, a major figure in civil rights movement, is dead" by Albin Krebs

  • "Gentle Warrior" (New York Times obituary)

  • Civil Rights leader with business zeal, M. Carl Holman (brief bio)

• Situational Irony, Irony of Outcome

Discussion: situational irony

Student Presentation 30: 

Student Presentation 31: Naruporn (Literary Tool Chest: carpe diem)

Student Presentation 32: 

Final Paper outline due

Week 9

Dec. 26

(Midterm Week December 24-28, 2007)

Midterm 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in BRK room 303 (covers material in class and coursebook from the beginning to symbol; read through the exam and pace yourself well)

• Writing Exam Essays

• Example of an 'A' Response to a Mid-Term Exam on Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us"

• Sample Exam Answer

• Pointers for Taking Essay Tests

• Writing Essay Exams (pdf file)

• Essay Exam Preparation (pdf file)

• Review literary terms

Dec. 28

No Class (Midterm Week December 24-28, 2007)

Week 10

Jan. 2

Unit 5  The Prose Paraphrase

Reading (coursebook 50-53)

• Ben Jonson, "It Is Not Growing Like a Tree"

  • Ben Jonson's "Oak and Lily" (a self-deprecating but good reading/paraphrasing of the poem in an irreverent blog)

  • The poem in context (and non-modernized spelling; notice the rhyme and type problem we mentioned in class is made clear in this version)

  • Ben Jonson (brief bio)

  • Ben Jonson (biography)

  • Online Literary Criticism Collection: Ben Jonson (1572-1637) (links to criticism about Ben Jonson)

• Philip Larkin, "A Study of Reading Habits"

• Margaret Cavendish, "Soul and Body" (see the slightly different "Soul's Raiment")

• Margaret Cavendish, "Upon the Theme of Love"

• Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"

• William Congreve, "False Though She Be to Me and Love"

• Christina Rossetti, "Remember"

Discussion: paraphrase

Student Presentation 33: Phantida (Poetry World: poetry is fantasy)

Student Presentation 34: Pochamarn (Literary Tool Chest: ballad)

Student Presentation 35: Porncharas (The Hit List: verb-noun agreement)

Student Presentation 36: 

Jan. 4

Unit 6  Musical Devices: Repetition, Refrain, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance

Reading (coursebook 54-55)

• Frances Cornford, "The Watch"

• Alliteration (with examples)

• Alliteration (with many examples from actual speech; distinguishes immediate and non-immediate alliteration)

• Refrain: Poetic Repetition

Student Presentation 37: Navanat (The Hit List: being vague, broad, too general)

Student Presentation 38: Phavit (The Hit List: cliche)

Student Presentation 39: Panjaporn (The Hit List: showing v. telling)

Student Presentation: Nawaporn P. (Poetry World: Burmese poetry)

Final Paper consultation sign-up

Week 11

Jan. 9

No Class (Intervarsity Games)

Jan. 11

No Class (Intervarsity Games)

Week 12

Jan. 16

Unit 6  Musical Devices: onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter, foot, scansion 

Reading (coursebook 55-61)

• Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

  • Salon.com Audio: Robert Frost (download Frost reading this poem, 40 seconds)

  • Robert Frost (1874-1963) (a few words on Frosts poems)

  • On "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (criticism on the poem)

• Rhyme (short definitions and examples of different kinds of rhymes)

• Rhyme (intro, simple rhyming, not-quite-rhymes, rather-more-than-rhymes, special kinds of rhyme, locations for rhyme)

• Rhyme (benefits, disadvantages)

• Rhythm--Measured Motion

• Meter (examples of traditional accentual-syllabic meters)

• Meter and Scansion

• Scansion

• Scansion Definitions

• The Down and Dirty Guide to Scanning Verse: Some Hints to Help with Sounding Shakespeare's Words (good to keep in mind when reading non-Shakespearean verse as well)

• "On Technique and Ideas" (transcript; Robert Frost discusses the technical aspects of poetry)

Discussion: sound and meaning: onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter, foot, scansion

Jan. 18

Unit 6  Musical Devices: onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter, foot, scansion

• A. E. Housman, "Eight O'Clock"

  • A. E. Housman (brief bio)

  • Comprehension Quiz

  • Student Poem Analysis (Chapter 13, page 2)

• Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool"

  • "We Real Cool" (text of poem and audio of Brooks introducing and reading it)

  • On "We Real Cool" (interview with Brooks about the poem, excerpts of criticism)

Unit 7  Forms and Types of Poetry: Sonnet

Reading (coursebook 62-67)

• John Milton, "On His Blindness"

  • John Milton (brief bio)

  • Milton, John (short biography)

  • "They Also Perform the Duties of a Servant Who Only Remain Erect on Their Feet in a Specified Place in Readiness to Receive Orders": The Dynamics of Stasis in Sonnet XIX ("When I Consider How My Light is Spent.") by Carol Barton (Chula access only)

  • Milton’s Blindness: "When I consider how my light is spent" by Linda Sue Grimes

  • John Milton: Poet, Priest and Prophet ("A Study of Divine Vocation in Milton's Poetry and Prose")

• William Shakespeare, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"

• Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV, from Amoretti

• Verse or "Stanza" Form

• Basic Sonnet Forms

Discussion: Petrarchan, Spenserian, and Shakespearean sonnets

Student Presentation 43: Porncharas (Poetry World: poetry and science)

Week 13

Jan. 23

Unit 7  Forms and Types of Poetry: Limerick, Epic, Romance

Reading (coursebook 67-70)

• "Lord Randall"

  • Notes and lyrics with reading questions and audio (audio quality not very good; 2:17 min.)

  • Listen to the ballad on Judy Cook's page (2:00 min.)

  • Another version on YouTube (video; 5:22 min.)

Fixed form

• Limerick Discussion Page (Basic Rules and Definitions, Fine Points and Judgment Issues)

• The Limerick (article on the limerick by Marco Graziosi; includes discussion of the form, its prehistory, rise of the limerick book, Lear's contribution, and the naming of the limerick)

• Edward Lear Home Page (about Edward Lear, his nonsense works, his art, essays on Lear and the limerick)

Narrative poems: epic

• Notes on Heroic Poetry: The Primary and Secondary Epic page 1 and 2

• HyperEpos: Epic on the Internet

• Muses (brief entry)

Narrative poetry: romance

• Notes on Middle English Romance

• The Sir Gawain Room (synopsis and analysis)

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Trans. Jessie L. Weston)

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400, Middle English e-text)

• The Cid (article about El Cid)

• Le Mort d'Artur (e-text, vol. 1)

• Tristan and Isolt (e-text)

Student Presentation 46: Tanyalak (Poetry World: deaf poetry)

Student Presentation 47: Tanadcha (repetition)

Student Presentation 48: Patcharanan (Poetry World: riddle poems)

Student Presentation: Nawaporn P. (The Hit List: capitalization)

Assignment 3 given

Final Paper draft due beginning of class

Jan. 25

Week 14

Jan. 30

Unit 7  Forms and Types of Poetry: Lyric, Elegy, Ode

Reading (coursebook 71-74)

• William Shakespeare, "O Mistress Mine" (from Twelfth Night)

  • O Mistress Mine (music by Arthur S. Sullivan; midi file of the tune available)

  • Shakespeare Illustrated: Edwin Austin Abbey, O mistress mine, where are you roaming? (1899) (painting and discussion of theme)

  • Shakespeare's songs in performance (a rare collection with notes on the performances)

    • MP3 has several songs, "O Mistress Mine" is about three-quarters of the way in; the penultimate song, I think

    • MP3 has several songs, "O Mistress Mine" is the first one

  • English Song Series 5 - Quilter / Rolfe-Johnson, et al (should have a sample of "O Mistress Mine" but it's not labeled and I haven't found it yet)

• John Keats, "To Autumn" (1819)

  • John Keats, "To Autumn" (poem text with reading and re-reading questions, explorations, links)

  • "To Autumn" (composition, general comments, stanza by stanza analysis)

  • Introduction to the poem by Sven Birkerts with audio clips of 4 readers' take on the poem 

  • "Ode to Autumn" (1819) (poem and analysis)

  • Listen to Robert Pinsky reading this poem.

  • A Brief Guide to Romanticism

• Lyric poetry

  • On Reading Lyric Poetry

  • Elegy (brief description)

  • Elegy (entry in The Columbia Encyclopedia on Bartleby)

  • Ode (explanation of different types of odes)

Discussion: lyric, elegy, ode

Student Presentation 52: Naruporn (?)

Student Presentation 53: Nawaporn M. (?)

Student Presentation 54: Patcharanan (Literary Tool Chest: rhyme)

Student Presentation 56: Neeranuch (?)

Assignment 3 due beginning of class

Feb. 1

Week 15

Feb. 6

Unit 8  Theme: Tyranny and Suppression, Mothers and their Children

Reading (coursebook 77-79)

• W. H. Auden, "Epitaph on a Tyrant"

• W. H. Auden, "The Unknown Citizen"

  • W. H. Auden (brief bio)

  • Auden at Home by James Fenton

  • The W. H. Auden Society

• George Barker, "To My Mother" (1942)

  • Why do you like that poem? (a reader's response)

  • Master of the Red Martini (review of the biography The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker)

  • Rhymes of Passion (Christopher Barker on his parents)

  • An Interview with George Barker

Discussion: theme, the interpretation of poetry

Student Presentation 60: Pawinrat (Poetry World: poetry and war)

Student Presentation 61: Pleowadee (Poetry World: poetry is reality)

Student Presentation 62: Papawarin (?)

Student Presentation 63: Patcharanan (The Hit List: capitalization)

Student Presentation 64: 

Assignment 4 given

Feb. 8

Unit 8  Theme: Mothers and their Children

Reading (coursebook 80)

• Langston Hughes, "Mama and Daughter"

  • Langston Hughes: The Black Bard at 100 (brief bio)

  • Langston Hughes (1902-1967) (bio)

  • Langston Hughes in Lawrence, Kansas: Photographs & Biographical Resources

  • Langston Hughes (bio)

  • Langston Hughes at 100 (a day in the life of Hughes, manuscript images)

  • Chapter 9: Langston Hughes (1902-1967) (bibliography, a brief biography)

Student Presentation 57: Tanyalak (Literary Tool Chest: ballad)

Student Presentation 58: Pritzana (The Hit List: using informal expressions)

Student Presentation 59: Tanadcha (Literary Tool Chest: overstatement)

Student Presentation 55: Pochamarn (The Hit List: unity)

Week 16

Feb. 13

Unit 8  Theme: Mothers and their Children

Reading (coursebook 81-85)

• Adrienne Rich, "A Woman Mourned by Daughters"

• David Budbill, "What I Heard at the Discount Department Store"

Student Presentation 65: Naruporn (?)

Student Presentation 66: Pochamarn (?)

Student Presentation 67: Neeranuch (?)

Student Presentation 68: 

Assignment 4 due beginning of class

Feb. 15

Poetry Is...

Final Paper due, 7-10 pages (follow the link for sample papers and writing guidelines)

Sessions

1: "Conquering the Jabberwocky" (Panjaporn, Phavit)

Week 17

Feb. 20

Poetry Is...

Sessions

2: Emily Dickinson, "I envy seas whereon he rides" (Tanyalak, Tanadcha, Pritzana)
3: "London with the Invisible 'I'" (Papawarin, Pleowadee, Pochamarn)

4: "Wordsworth's 'Perfect Woman'" (Patcharanan, Porncharas, Phantida, Parima)

5: Sylvia Plath, "Insomniac" (Pawinrat, Naruporn, Neeranuch)

Feb. 22

Poetry Is...

Sessions

6: A Greater Freedom: Beating an Invisible Cage in Dunbar's "Sympathy" (Navanat, Pancharle, Nawaporn M., Nawaporn P.)

Feb. 27

Final Exam 8:30-10:30 a.m., BRK 301

Contains 2 parts (80 points total): one on in-class and coursebook material, and the other on an unseen poem

• Writing Exam Essays

• Pointers for Taking Essay Tests

• Writing Essay Exams (pdf file)

• Essay Exam Preparation (pdf file)

• Review literary terms