Monday-Wednesday 496-02 this syllabus reflects very closely what we'll be doing, also. Plan to do the reading below (formal verse) for the weekend.
Week Six
T 09/31 Introduction to Formal Verse.
Formal Poetry: Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Robert Hayden
Homework: Readings: Homework: Readings: Design by Robert Frost, (Yes, we've read it before, but it bears review for the sonnet form.) Elizabeth Bishop's Sestina and her villanelle: One Art, Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle...
Look over these forms: sestina, sonnet, and villanelle, and begin to decide which you will imitate (and discuss in a 300 word minimum formal letter to your readers). We will look over some examples for both components of this assignment: due 10/11
H 10/02 “ “ “ continued.Formal verse discussion
Homework:
Read:
Everyday Use by Alice Walker. Cathedral by Raymond Carver. (Walker to be
discussed Thurs. and Carver Tues.
Week Seven
T 10/06 Discussion Carver
H10/08 Discussion Walker
Week Eight
T 10/08
Discussion
Homework: Reading Where are You Going, Where Have You Been Joyce Carol Oates (anthology)
H10/11 Discussion Oates. Formal
poems due today.
Homework: Thrall entire.
Week Nine
T 10/15 Discussion of Thrall
WEDNESDAY: 6:30 Canzani Auditorium. Natasha
Trethewey visit. MANDATORY.
H 10/18
Week Ten
T 10/23 NY School Readings.
H 10/25 Discussion
Homework:
Charles Bukowski readings
At your
leisure:
http://bukowski.net/poems/
Week Eleven
T NY School discussion, Bukowski.
Homework: Reading TBA
H Discussion: TBA
Homework: Selected readings: Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath,
Robert Lowell.
Week Twelve
T The Confessionalists
H Discussion continued
Homework: Reading: Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin,
Michael Cunningham’s White Angel,
Poetry
Comics article,
**Your
ekphrastic pieces and process papers (500 words minimum) are due on Tuesday
11/20.
The short
version of this assignment is that you will be responding or imitating a piece
of literature through visual art. Examples abound: W.H. Auden’s Musee de Beaux
Art or WCW’s Icarus (myth-painting-poem).
Or Charles Simic’s poems that respond to Joseph Cornell’s boxes (for the
reverse). Consider the poetry poem: http://www.tcj.com/a-bianca-stone-interview/
Week Thirteen
MONDAY 11/18 6:30 p.m. MIRANDA JULY YOU DO NOT
WANT TO MISS THIS, I PROMISE!!
T 11/19
TBA.
H 11/ 21 TBA
Week Fourteen
T 11/26 Discussion.
Ekphrastic pieces to be presented. Process papers (only) to be turned in to me.
H 11/28
THANKSGIVING BREAK! Safe travels
and happy Thanksgiving!
Week Fifteen
T 12/03 Group Presentations of Essays from Touchstone
Anthology. (There will be an oral and written component for each group member.
More details forthcoming.)
H 12/05 Group Presentations continued
Week Sixteen
T 12/10 Group Presentations
H 12/12 Last Day
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