English 106 G. McDonald

Introduction to Poetry Fall 2002

SCHEDULE

August 20 Introduction to the course

August 22-29 TOPIC: What can be made with words

Diction, Imagery, Figurative Language

Poems assigned daily

September 3-12 TOPIC: Music in poetry

Rhythm, Meter, Sound

Poems assigned daily

September 17-26 TOPIC: Some kinds, themes, and motives of poetry

Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic forms, Seduction and Meditation

Poems assigned daily

October 1 MIDTERM EXAMINATION

TOPIC FOR REMAINDER OF TERM: Poets' lives and times

October 3 "Voices and Visions" video

RENAISSANCE

October 8 Spenser "Epithalamion"

Sidney "Astrophel and Stella"

10 Shakespeare all sonnets in Norton

15 & 17 No classes: fall break and instructor at conference

22 Continue Shakespeare

24 Donne all poems in Norton

29 Herbert "Easter Wings," "The Flower"

31 No class: instructor at conference

ROMANTIC

November 5 Blake all poems in Norton ESSAY DUE

7 Wordsworth "Tintern Abbey," "Resolution and Independence," "London,1802," "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"

12 Coleridge "Kubla Khan," "Dejection: An Ode"

14 Keats all poems in Norton

MODERN

19 Reading a modernist poem The Waste Land

20 Eliot The Waste Land

26 Frost all poems in Norton

28 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

December 3 Catching up, recitation, or class choice

5 REVIEW FOR EXAMINATION

FINAL EXAMINATION: Thursday, December 12—12 noon - 3:00 p.m.

For other course policies, the basis for grades, etc., please refer back to “Information for Students” or to “Overview” on the Blackboard Site.

Students wishing to do any sort of extra-credit assignment (attending and writing about a poetry reading, writing a poem in a strict form, or reciting a poem from memory) must have completed the assignment by 26 November.