Course Schedule

Sept 26:Introductions and Syllabus. Definitions of poetry from Wordsworth, Shelley, Frost, Moore,MacLeish. Discussion of haunting:related to memory, history, location, movement, and being in between.

*Poems notincluded in the Norton will be provided in class.

Stanza One The Sonnet: Form Against Loss	Sept. 29	William Shakespeare: Sonnets 55. 71, 87, 98* Poetic Designs pp. 1-36 (“Meter and Rhythm”) definitions: sonnet, scansion, meter, rhythm, iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, spondee, pyrrhic, pentameter, caesura, metaphor, simile
	Oct. 1	John Donne: “Thou Hast Made Me,” “Death Be Not Proud,” “Batter My Heart” (Holy Sonnets) Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ozymandias,” “England in 1819” definitions: metaphysical poets, irony, metonymy, synecdoche, conceit, paradox
	Oct. 3 DRAFT PAPER ONE DUE	Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Theocritus,” “How Do I Love Thee” (Sonnets from the Portuguese) W.B. Yeats: “Leda and the Swan” Definitions: hyperbole, anaphora, allusion, intertext
Stanza Two Landscapes and Seascapes	Oct. 6	William Wordsworth: “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Ted Hughes: “Daffodils” Poetic Designs pp. 72-104 (“Stanza and Form”) Definitions: romanticism, stanza, ode
	Oct. 8	Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Dejection: An Ode,” “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” definitions: rhyme, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia
	Oct. 10	Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach” Thomas Hardy: “The Darkling Thrush,” “The Convergence of the Twain”
Stanza Three Elegy	Oct. 13	John Milton: “Lycidas,” “On Shakespeare,” “Methought I Saw” Poetic Designs pp. 105-148 (“Figures of Speech”) definitions: elegy, pastoral
	Oct. 15 PAPER ONE DUE	Thomas Gray: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” Emily Brontë: “Remembrance” Percy Bysshe Shelley: “To Wordsworth”* definitions: apostrophe, prosopopoiea
	Oct. 17	Alfred, Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam 1, 2, 7, 67, 95, 119, 130 W.H. Auden: “Funeral Blues,” “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”
Stanza Four Word and Image	Oct. 20	John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” definition: ekphrasis
	Oct. 22	Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” Christina Rossetti: “In an Artist’s Studio” Jorie Graham: “At Luca Signorelli’s Resurrection of the Body” definition: dramatic monologue
	Oct. 24 DRAFT PAPER TWO DUE	W.H. Auden: “Musée des Beaux Arts” William Carlos Williams: “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” Poetic Designs pp. 149-198 (“Form in Free Verse”) Definitions: free verse, sister arts
	Oct. 27	Frank O’Hara: “Why I am not a Painter” Charles Simic: “A Book Full of Pictures” Eavan Boland: “That the Science of Cartography is Limited” John Ashbery: “The Painter”
Stanza Five Gothic Decadence	Oct. 29	Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee” Christina Rossetti: “Goblin Market,”* “Remember,” “Echo” definitions: gothic, aestheticism, decadence, grotesque
	Oct. 31 MIDTERM	John Keats: “La Belle Dame sans Merci” Dante Gabriel Rossetti: “The Blessed Damozel” A.C. Swinburne: “A Forsaken Garden”
Stanza Six War Trauma	Nov. 3	Wilfren Owen: “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” “Dulce et Decorum Est,” “Strange Meeting” Siegfried Sassoon: “They” Isaac Rosenburg: “Break of Day in the Trenches”
	Nov. 5	Randall Jarrell: “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” W.B. Yeats: “Under Ben Bulben” Cecil Day Lewis: “Where are the War Poets?” Robert Lowell: “For the Union Dead”
Stanza Seven Harlem Renaissance: Race, Music, History	Nov. 7 PAPER TWO DUE	Langston Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” James Weldon Johnson: “O Black and Unknown Bards”* Countee Cullen: “Heritage,” “Yet Do I Marvel” definitions: Harlem Renaissance, jazz, blues
	Nov. 10	Gwendolyn Bennett: “Song”* Langston Hughes: “The Weary Blues,” “Jazzonia”*
	Nov. 12	Helene Johnson: “Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem”* Claude McKay: “If We Must Die,”* “The White House,”* “Mulatto”*
	Nov. 14	In-class assignment
Stanza Eight Response and Parody	Nov. 17	Christopher Marlowe: “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” Sir Walter Ralegh: “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
	Nov. 19	Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach” Anthony Hecht: “The Dover Bitch” William Carlos Williams: “This Is Just to Say” Kenneth Koch: “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams”
Stanza Nine Life Stages	Nov. 21 DRAFT PAPER THREE DUE	William Blake: “Introduction (I)” “The Lamb,” “Holy Thursday (I),” “Introduction (II),” “The Tyger,” “Holy Thursday (II)” (Songs of Innocence and Experience)
	Nov. 24	Ezra Pound: “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” Donald Justice: “Men at Forty” Galway Kinnell: “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps” definition: epistolary
	Nov. 26	Elizabeth Bishop: “Sestina” Sylvia Plath: “Lady Lazarus” definition: sestina
Stanza Ten American Melancholy	Nov. 28	NO CLASS—THANKSGIVING BREAK
	Dec. 1	Emily Dickinson: “There’s a Certain Slant of Light,”* “I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain,” “’Hope’ Is the Thing with Feathers,” “The Bible Is an Antique Volume”* Hart Crane: “To Emily Dickinson”
	Dec. 3	Walt Whitman: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” Song of Myself: “I Celebrate Myself,” “Twenty-Eight Young Men,” “The Spotted Hawk”
	Dec. 5 PAPER THREE DUE	Laura (Riding) Jackson: “The Wind Suffers” Elizabeth Bishop: “One Art”

FINAL EXAM: Wednesday,Dec. 10, 8 AM –10 AM, ICS 219