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Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
Introduction to Reading Poetry Responsively, What is poetry? Approaching a Poem? Reading Poetry. Writing about poetry |
Carol Ann Duffy, “Valentine”, Billy Collins, “Introduction to Poetry”; Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring&Fall: To a Young Child”, Elizabeth Bishop, “Manners”, |
2) |
Word Choice, Word Order and Tone; Denotation, Connotation |
Marge Piercy, “The Secretary’s Chant”; Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”; John Updike, “Dog’s Death”; Robert Francis, “Catch”; Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”; John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”, Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”; |
3) |
Imagery (Types: Tactile, Audio, Visual, tied image, free image, literal image, figurative image) |
e.e. cummings, “l(a”; Alice Walker, “a woman is not a potted plant”; William Carlos Williams, “Poem”; Theodore Roethke, “Root Cellar”; Seamus Heaney, “The Pitchfork”; Hilda Doolittle, “Heat”; |
4) |
Imagery & , image clusters (Types: Tactile, Audio, Visual, tied image, free image, literal image, figurative image) |
William Blake, “London”; Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”; Carolyn Kizer, “Food for Love”; Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”; |
5) |
Figures of Speech: simile, metaphor, pun, hyperbole, conceit, allusion, paradox |
Margaret Atwood, “you fit into me”; Emily Dickinson, “Presentiment”; Edmund Conti, “Pragmatist”; Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors”, “Mirror”; Can Yücel, “Zamparadox” |
6) |
Figures of Speech: personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, alliteration, assonance, consonance, oxymoron |
Dylan Thomas, “The Hand That Signed the Paper”; Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider”, “The Soul, reaching, throwing out for love”; John Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”; |
7) |
Irony (verbal, situational, dramatic, irony of fate, sarcasm, cynicism, innuendo, insinuation, satire) |
William Blake, “The Sick Rose”, William Heyen, “Pterodactyl Rose”; Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory”; Kenneth Fearing, “AD”; e.e. cummings, “next to of course god america i”; Stephen Crane, “A Man Said to the Universe”; Thomas Hardy, “The Man He Killed” |
8) |
Review |
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9) |
Symbol and allegory |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Haunted Palace”; Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night”; William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper”; “John Masefield, “Cargoes”; |
10) |
Listening to Poetry; Sounds (repetition, rhyme, implied image and allusion via sound/ eg. Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Sibilance and onomatopoeia ) |
Anonymous, “Scarborough Fair”; Emily Dickinson, “A Bird Came Down the Walk”; Sylvia Plath, “Mushrooms”; William Heyen, “The Trains”; Maxine Hong Kingston, “Restaurant”; Paul Humphrey, “Blow”; Robert Francis, “The Pitcher”; Helen Chasin, “The Word Plum”; |
11) |
Patterns of Rhythm; Meter, prosody, stress patterns, accentuation, masculine ending, feminine ending, end-stopped line, run-on-line, enjambment |
William Wordsworth, “My Heart Leaps Up”; Timothy Steele, “Waiting for the Storm”; William Butler Yeats, “That the Night Come”; A. E. Housman, “When I was one-and-twenty”; William Blake, “The Lamb”, “The Tyger”; Theodore Roethke “My Papa’s Waltz”; Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Break, Break, Break” |
12) |
Poetic Forms (fixed form, free verse or open form, the Stanza, the couplet, terza rima, the Lyric, ballad, the villanelle, Prosaic poetry, the Sonnet, the sestina, limerick, epigram |
A. E. Housman, “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now”; Robert Herrick, “Upon Julia’s Clothes”; William Shakespeare, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”; Edna St. Vincent Millay, “I will put Chaos into fourteen lines”; P. B. Shelley, “Ozymandias”; John Donne, “Holy Sonnet”; Mark Jarman, “Unholy Sonnet”; Dylan Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night”; Julia Alvarez, “Woman’s Work”; Elizabeth Bishop, “Sestina”; Florence Cassen Mayers, “All American Sestina”; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “What is an Epigram?”; “A. R. Ammons, “Coward”; Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Theology”; Laurence Perrine, “The limerick’s never averse”; Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art” |
13) |
Poetic Forms & types (the Haiku, Elegy, Ode, Picture poems, concrete poems, parody) & the Open Form, decriptive poems, narrative poems, reflective poems, |
Haikular: Matsuo Basho like “Under cherry trees”; Etheridge Knight, Oruç Aruoba, Yelda Karataş, Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç & Yusuf Eradam; Diğer Şiirler: Seamus Heaney, “Mid-term Break”; Andrew Hudgins, “Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead”; Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”; Michael McFee, “In Medias Res”; Peter De Vries, “To His Importunate Mistress”; Walt Whitman, from “I Sing the Body Electric”; W.C. Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”; Denise Levertov, “Gathered at the River”; Tato Laviera, “AmeRícan”; Marilyn Nelson Waniek, “Emily Dickinson’s Defunct”; Miroslav Holub, “Fairy Tale”, “The Door”. |
14) |
Analysis of poems of students’ own choice |
Poems from the Bedford anthology or from other sources |
15) |
Final |
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16) |
Final Exam |
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