SemesterFall Semester, 2020
DepartmentSophomore Class A, Department of English Sophomore Class B, Department of English
Course NamePoetry
Instructor
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

Plan of Study



Fall 2020



1st Week: Introduction and Understanding Poetry



Reading a Poem: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats



Lyric Poetry: “Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger” by Adrienne Rich



 



2nd Week



Narrative Poetry: “Out, Out—” by Robert Frost



 



3rd Week



Dramatic Poetry: “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning



 



4th Week



A Brief History 1: [Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?] by William Shakespeare



Chapter Two: [There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House] by Emily Dickinson



 



5th Week



A Brief History 2: [Death, be not proud, though some have callèd thee] by John Donne



Chapter Three: “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop



 



6th Week



A Brief History 3: [The world is too much with us]



Chapter Four: “After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost



 



7th Week



Midterm (10th April 2019)



 



8th Week



A Brief History 4: [My life had stood—a Loaded Gun] by Emily Dickinson (handout)



Chapter Five: “Bright Star” by John Keats



 



9th Week



A Brief History 5: “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats



Chapter Six: “A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman



 



10th Week



“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens



Chapter Seven: “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley



 



11th Week



A Brief History 6: “Villanelle for an Anniversary” by Seamus Heaney



Chapter Eight: “On His Blindness” by John Milton



 



12th Week



Chapter Nine: “Journey of the Magi” by T.S. Eliot



 



13th Week



Chapter Ten: “Church Going” by Philip Larkin



Chapter Eleven



 



14th Week



Chapter Twelve: “Break, break, break” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson



“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop



 



15th Week



Chapter Thirteen: “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath



Chapter Fourteen



 



16th – 17th Weeks: Poems for Further Reading



Chapters fifteen and Sixteen:



“Home Burial” by Robert Frost


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

 



Course Requirements:



Students are expected to spend around 6 hours per week previewing and reviewing lesson .As well as class attendance and participation in discussion and presentation, students are required to sit two exams.



 



General Operating Procedures:




  1. Lecturing

  2. Collaborative Learning and Class Discussion

  3. Working Group Q&A and Presentation



Grading:



Midterm: 30%



Final: 30%



Working Group Q&A and Presentation: 20%



Class Attendance: 20%


Textbook & Reference

Teaching Material:



Arp, Thomas R. and Greg Johnson, eds. Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry. Twelfth Edition. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008.



 


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