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
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