- Code
- ELL 422
- Name
- English Poetry
- Semester
- 2
- Lecture hours
- 4.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 4.00
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Description
-
The focus of your course of study will be the most significant modern British and American authors of poetic genre: from Frost, Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Crane, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Stevens, Auden and Bishop, with additional lectures on the poetry of World War I, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance.
- Objectives
-
The student will be expected to apply the diverse methods of literary criticism, such as formalism, historicism, psychological, archetypal, post-modernism and gender criticism – methods successfully illustrated in the first semester of graduate work.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Course Introduction • Syllabus review; course evaluation and submission The Basics • Review: genres, poetic features, literary devices • Elements of Modern Poetry
- 2
- Robert Frost • Biographical background • Selections: “Mowing”, “Home Burial”, “After Apple-Picking”, “Birches”, “Out, Out –”, “Provide, Provide”
- 3
- A Bit on Irish History • British Isles terminology • From 2nd C. AD • 1550-1703: Plantation Ireland • Ireland to the 20st Century
- 4
- WB Yeats-1 • Biograhical background • Maud Gonne • Romantic beginnings: “The Song of the Happy Shepherd”, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” • Irish folklore and revivalism: “The Song of Wandering Aengus”, • Dramatic shift: “September 1913”
- 5
- WB Yeats-2 • The Easter Rebellion – April 1916 • “Magic,” Ideas of Good and Evil (1903) • Selections: “Second Coming”, “The Magi”, “Leda and the Swan”, “In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz”, “Lapis Lazuli”
- 6
- WWI Poets-1 • War Poetry genre • Epitaphs • Historical background: Crimean War, World War I • Biographical bacground: Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger, Siegfried Sassoon, Hedd Wyn, Wilfred Owen, John (Jack) Kipling
- 7
- WWI Poets-2 • Selections: “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, “The Last of the Light Brigade”, “Boundless Love”, “For All We Have and Are”, “The Soldier”, “My Boy Jack”, “I Have a Rendezvous with Death”, “The General”, “The Hero” or “Yr Arwr”, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
- 8
- Ezra Pound – Imagism • Biographical background • Defection, trial, incarcderation, release • Hemingway on Ezra Pound • Imagism in England and America Ezra Pound • Haiku • Selections: “In a Station of the Metro” “A Girl”, “And The Days Are Not Full Enough”, “A Pact”, “Reflection” T.S. Eliot • Biographical background • 19th C. v. Modern Worldview • “The Waste Land” • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
- 9
- Pound and Eliot • Impact on Modern Poetry
- 10
- W.H. Auden • Biographical background • Selections: “Stop All the Clocks”, “The More Loving One”, “Musee des Beaux Arts” • Intertextuality, Icarus myth, the Masters • William Carlos Williams, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
- 11
- W.C. Williams • Biographical background • Selections: “Spring and All”, “The Red Wheelbarrow”, “The Sunbathers”, “This Is Just To Say”, “The Lonely Street”
- 12
- Poetry Presentations
- 13
- Poetry Presentations
- 14
- Course Paper
- 15
- No class
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- A better understanding of the body of work of modern poetry– its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major writers;
- 2
- Improved critical reading and analysis;
- 3
- Improved academic writing skills.
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 25% 25%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 1 10% 10%
- Term projects
- 1 40% 40%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 0 0% 0%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 75%
- Final exam percent
- 25%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 4 64
- Off class study hours
- 14 4 56
- Duties
- 2 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 10 10
- Final exam
- 1 11 11
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 141
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 5.64
- ECTS
- 6.00