Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
2202242 Introduction to the Study of English Poetry
Puckpan Tipayamontri
Office: BRK (Boromrajakumaree Building) room 1106.1
Office Hours: MF 11-1 or by appointment
Phone: 0 2218 4728
Group 2
Detailed schedule
Nov. 1 |
Unit 1 Reasons for Reading Poetry: the art of reading, the function of a poem (p. 1-5)
Unit 2 Making Sense of Poems: subject matters of poetry (p. 6-7) Peter Porter, "Mort aux chats"
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Nov. 3 |
Unit 2 Making Sense
of Poems: diction, denotation, connotation, tone (p. 8-12)
Alfred Tennyson, "The Eagle"
Langston Hughes, "Cross"
William Cowper, "The Poplar Field" |
Nov. 8 |
Unit 3 Imagery (p. 13-16)
Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"
Edwin Morgan, "One Cigarette"
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Nov. 10 |
Unit 4 Figures of
speech: simile
Vernon Scannell, "Incendiary"
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Nov. 15 |
Unit 4 Figures of
speech: metaphor, personification (p. 21-27)
Emily Bronte, "Tell Me, Tell Me, Smiling Child" James Stephens, "The Wind" William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Assignment 1 given |
Nov. 17 |
Unit 4 Figures of
speech: apostrophe (p. 27-28)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora"
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Nov. 22 |
Unit 4 Figures of
speech: overstatement, understatement (p. 28-32)
Anne Bradstreet, "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
Seamus Heaney, "Mid-Term Break"
Assignment 1 due beginning of class |
Nov. 24 |
Unit 4 Figures of
speech: allusion (p. 33-35)
Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Bible
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Nov. 29 |
Unit 4 Figures of
speech: allusion (p. 33-35)
Margaret Atwood, "Siren Song"
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Dec. 1 |
Unit 4 Figures of speech: metonymy (p. 35-37)
James Shirley, "Death the Leveller" |
Dec. 6 |
Unit 4 Figures of
speech: synecdoche, paradox (p. 37-42)
Francis Beaumont, "On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey" William Blake, "Eternity"
Richard Crashaw, "A Song of Divine Love" Assignment 2 given Stephen Crane, "A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky," The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)
Anne Sexton, "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph"
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Dec. 8 |
Unit 4 Figures of
speech: symbol (p. 42-44)
Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
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Dec. 13 |
Unit 4 Figures of speech: allegory (p. 44-46)
George Herbert, "Peace"
Assignment 2 due beginning of class |
Dec. 15 |
Unit 4 Figures of
speech: verbal irony (p. 46-48)
Langston Hughes, "Green Memory"
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Dec. 20 |
Unit 4 Figures of
speech: dramatic irony (p. 48-49)
William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper"
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Dec. 22 |
Unit 4 Figures of
speech: situational irony (p. 49-50)
Thomas Hardy, "By Her Aunt's Grave"
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Dec. 27 | Midterm Exam (11 a.m.-1p.m.) BRK room 302 (Note room change) |
Dec. 29 | No Class |
Jan. 3 |
Unit 5 The Prose
Paraphrase (p. 51-53)
Ben Jonson, "It Is Not Growing Like a Tree"
Philip Larkin, "A Study of Reading Habits" Margaret Cavendish
Prose paraphrase homework |
Jan. 5 |
Unit 6 Musical
Devices: repetition, refrain, alliteration, assonance, consonance (p.
54-55)
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Jan. 10 |
Unit 6 Musical
Devices: onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter, foot, scansion (p. 55-61)
Assignment 3 given |
Jan. 12 |
Unit 7 Forms and
Types of Poetry: sonnet (Petrarchan, Shakespearean, Spenserian) (p.
62-66)
Continuous form
Verse or "Stanza" Form: sonnets Edna St. Vincent Millay, "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" Robert Frost, "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same"
Edmund Spenser, from Amoretti |
Jan. 17 |
Unit 7 Forms and
Types of Poetry: limerick, epic, romance (p. 66-67)
Fixed form
Narrative poems: epic
Narrative poetry: romance
Assignment 3 due beginning of class Poetry Conference session and paper proposals due |
Jan. 19 |
Unit 7 Forms and
Types of Poetry: ballad (p. 68-70)
"Edward" A. E. Housman, "Is My Team Ploughing" |
Jan. 24 | No class (Intervarsity Games: Jan. 19-26) |
Jan. 26 | No class (Intervarsity Games: Jan. 19-26) |
Jan. 31 |
Unit 7 Forms and
Types of Poetry: lyric, elegy, ode (p. 71-73)
Lyric poetry
William Shakespeare, "Sigh No More, Ladies" (from Much Ado About Nothing)
John Keats, "To Autumn"
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Feb. 2 |
Unit 8 Theme: War
(p. 74-77)
Richard Lovelace, "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
D. H. Lawrence, "Peace and War"
Randall Jarrell, "A Lullaby"
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Feb. 7 |
Unit 8 Theme:
Fathers and Sons (p. 77-79)
Sir Walter Ralegh, "Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son"
Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"
Assignment 4 given |
Feb. 9 |
Unit 8 Theme:
Fathers and Sons (p. 79-80)
Peter Meinke, "Advice to my Son"
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Feb. 14 |
Unit 8 Theme:
Fathers and Sons (p. 80-81)
Andrew Hudgins, "Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead"
Assignment 4 due beginning of class |
Feb. 16 |
Poetry Conference (day 1)
Final paper due beginning of class |
Feb. 21 | Poetry Conference (day 2), Poetry Recital |
Feb. 23 | Poetry Conference (day 3) |
Feb. 28 | Final Exam (8:30-10:30 a.m.) BRK room 304 (Note room change) |
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