![]() ![]() William Shakespeare, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (p.12) ĥth week: Robert Hayden, “The Whipping” (p.12) Gwendolyn Brooks, “Kitchenetteīuilding” (p.16) Langston Hughes, “Cross” (p. (p.66) Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush” (pp.372-373)Ĥth week: Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring” (p.59) William Carlos Williams, “The (pp.21-22) Adrienne Rich, “Poetry: I” (pp.396-397)Ģnd week: Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est” (p.7) Keith Douglas, “Vergissmeinnicht”ģrd week: William Shakespeare, “Winter” (p.6) Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays” Arp and Greg Johnson (Harcourt College Publishers, 12th Edition)ġst week: Alexander Pope, “Sound and Sense”(p.227) Archibald MacLeish, “Ars Poetica” Text: Perrine’s Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, eds. To introduce beginning students to the nature and variety of English poetry. In this Fall Semester (the first half of the academic year), poems to be closely analyzed in class will be as follows: However, the first and foremost emphasis remains in teaching students to read, enjoy, interpret, and evaluate each individual poem. They will also be exposed to a variety of genres and sub-genres of poetry such as ballad, sonnet, ode, villanelle, blank verse, dramatic monologue, and free verse. ![]() Gradually students will come to understand and appreciate such terms as imagery, rhyme, rhythm, metaphor, simile, personification, metonymy, symbol, allegory, connotation, paradox, overstatement, understatement, irony, sound repetition, allusion, etc. In class we seek to familiarize students with the elements of poetry in a progression in which each new topic builds on what preceded it. This course aims at introducing beginning students to the nature and variety of English poetry. ![]()
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