Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
2202242 Introduction to the Study of English Poetry
Puckpan Tipayamontri
Office: BRK (Boromrajakumari Building) room 1106.1
Office Hours: W 2-4 or by appointment
Phone: 0 2218 4703
W 11-1 (BRK 312)
F 8-9 (BRK 301)
Tentative Schedule (Group 2)
Week 1 |
Oct. 31 |
Introduction Unit 1 Reasons for Reading Poetry Unit 2 Making Sense of Poems Reading
Discussion: art of reading; function of poem; subject matter of poetry; What do you think of Bernstein's views of poetry compared to Barr's?; the art of reading, the function of a poem (p. 1-5); subject matters of poetry (p. 6-7) |
Nov. 2 |
Unit 2 Making Sense of Poems Reading
Discussion: words and meaning: diction, denotation, connotation, tone (p. 7-13) |
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Week 2 |
Nov. 7 |
Unit 3 Imagery Reading
Discussion: words and the senses: imagery; visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory imagery |
Nov. 9 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Simile Reading
Discussion: words and associations: simile; comparing things |
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Week 3 |
Nov. 14 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Metaphor, Personification Reading (coursebook 21-26)
Study Questions Robert
Francis, "The Hound"
James Stephens, "The Wind"
C.
H. Sisson, "Money"
Discussion: words and associations: metaphor; making things human: personification
Assignment 1 given |
Nov. 16 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Apostrophe Reading (coursebook 26-27)
Discussion: making things human: apostrophe
Assignment 1 due beginning of class
Discussion of Assignment 1: Sylvia Plath, "Mirror" |
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Week 4 |
Nov. 21 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Overstatement, Understatement Reading (coursebook 27-30)
Discussion: overstatement, understatement
Study Questions:
Student Presentation 1: Navanat (poetry and music) Student Presentation 2: Student Presentation 3: Student Presentation 4: |
Nov. 23 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Allusion Reading (coursebook 31-32)
Discussion: intertextuality: allusion
Student Presentation 5: Phavit (sonnet) Student Presentation 6: Panjaporn (meter and foot) Student Presentation 7: Plyor (?) |
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Week 5 |
Nov. 28 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Allusion, Metonymy Reading (coursebook 32-35)
Discussion: intertextuality: allusion; words and associations: metonymy
Student Presentation 8: Papaporn (Poetry World: poetry and children) Student Presentation 9: Nawaporn M. (Literary Tool Chest: personification) Student Presentation 10: Pritzana (Literary Tool Chest: allegory) Student Presentation 11: Parima (Poetry World: poetry and therapy) Student Presentation 12: Pancharle (Literary Tool Chest: allusion) |
Nov. 30 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Synecdoche Reading (coursebook 35-38)
Discussion: words and associations: synecdoche
Student Presentation 13: Phantida (Literary Tool Chest: metonymy) Student Presentation 14: Porncharas (Literary Tool Chest: paradox) Student Presentation 15: Plyor (Literary Tool Chest: metonymy v. metaphor) Student Presentation 16: Neeranuch (poetry and children: nursery rhymes) |
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Week 6 |
Dec. 5 |
No Class (Father's Day) |
Dec. 7 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Synecdoche, Paradox Reading (coursebook 38-39)
Discussion: words and associations: synecdoche; imagining impossibility: paradox
Student Presentation 17: Phavit (Poetry World: poetry in Ancient Egypt) Student Presentation 18: Papaorn (Literary Tool Chest: symbol) Student Presentation 19: Papawarin (Literary Tool Chest: understatement) Student Presentation 20: Pleowadee (Literary Tool Chest: assonance)
Assignment 2 given |
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Week 7 |
Dec. 12 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Paradox, Symbol Reading (coursebook 37-42)
Discussion: paradox, symbol
Student Presentation 20: Navanat (Literary Tool Chest: irony) Student Presentation 21: Panjaporn (Poetry World: Homer) Student Presentation 22: Tanadcha (Poetry World: poetry in prisons) Student Presentation 23: Parima (Literary Tool Chest: onomatopoiea)
Assignment 2 due beginning of class |
Dec. 14 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Allegory Reading (coursebook 42-43)
Discussion: allegory |
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Week 8 |
Dec. 19 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Verbal and Dramatic Irony Reading (coursebook 44-48)
Discussion: verbal, dramatic irony
Student Presentation 24: Pawinrat (Literary Tool Chest: verbal and dramatic irony) Student Presentation 25: Papaporn (punctuation) Student Presentation 26: Tanyalak (The Hit List: wrong word) Student Presentation 27: Parima (Literary Tool Chest: free verse and blank verse) Student Presentation 28: Thanchanok (poetry is fantasy) Student Presentation 29: Phantida (parallelism) |
Dec. 21 |
Unit 4 Figures of Speech: Situational Irony Reading (coursebook 48-49)
Discussion: situational irony
Student Presentation 30: Student Presentation 31: Naruporn (Literary Tool Chest: carpe diem) Student Presentation 32:
Final Paper outline due |
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Week 9 |
Dec. 26 |
(Midterm Week December 24-28, 2007)
Midterm 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in BRK room 303 (covers material in class and coursebook from the beginning to symbol; read through the exam and pace yourself well)
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Dec. 28 |
No Class (Midterm Week December 24-28, 2007) |
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Week 10 |
Jan. 2 |
Unit 5 The Prose Paraphrase Reading (coursebook 50-53)
Discussion: paraphrase
Student Presentation 33: Phantida (Poetry World: poetry is fantasy) Student Presentation 34: Pochamarn (Literary Tool Chest: ballad) Student Presentation 35: Porncharas (The Hit List: verb-noun agreement) Student Presentation 36: |
Jan. 4 |
Unit 6 Musical Devices: Repetition, Refrain, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance Reading (coursebook 54-55)
Discussion: words and sounds
Student Presentation 37: Navanat (The Hit List: being vague, broad, too general) Student Presentation 38: Phavit (The Hit List: cliche) Student Presentation 39: Panjaporn (The Hit List: showing v. telling) Student Presentation: Nawaporn P. (Poetry World: Burmese poetry)
Final Paper consultation sign-up |
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Week 11 |
Jan. 9 |
No Class (Intervarsity Games) |
Jan. 11 |
No Class (Intervarsity Games) |
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Week 12 |
Jan. 16 |
Unit 6 Musical Devices: onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter, foot, scansion Reading (coursebook 55-61)
Discussion: sound and meaning: onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter, foot, scansion
Student Presentation 40: Pawinrat (The Hit List: logic) Student Presentation 41: Pancharle (Poetry World: poetry in ancient China) Student Presentation 42: Nawaporn M. (?) Student Presentation 44: Pleowadee (?) Student Presentation 45: Papawarin (?) |
Jan. 18 |
Unit 6 Musical Devices: onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter, foot, scansion
Unit 7 Forms and Types of Poetry: Sonnet Reading (coursebook 62-67)
Discussion: Petrarchan, Spenserian, and Shakespearean sonnets
Student Presentation 43: Porncharas (Poetry World: poetry and science) |
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Week 13 |
Jan. 23 |
Unit 7 Forms and Types of Poetry: Limerick, Epic, Romance Reading (coursebook 67-70)
Fixed form
Narrative poems: epic Narrative poetry: romance
Discussion: limerick, epic, romance
Student Presentation 46: Tanyalak (Poetry World: deaf poetry) Student Presentation 47: Tanadcha (repetition) Student Presentation 48: Patcharanan (Poetry World: riddle poems) Student Presentation: Nawaporn P. (The Hit List: capitalization)
Assignment 3 given
Final Paper draft due beginning of class |
Jan. 25 |
Unit 7 Forms and Types of Poetry: Ballad Reading (coursebook 70-71)
Discussion: ballads
Student Presentation 49: Student Presentation 50: Pritzana (Poetry World: poetry and war) Student Presentation 51: Pancharle (The Hit List: spelling) |
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Week 14 |
Jan. 30 |
Unit 7 Forms and Types of Poetry: Lyric, Elegy, Ode Reading (coursebook 71-74)
Discussion: lyric, elegy, ode
Student Presentation 52: Naruporn (?) Student Presentation 53: Nawaporn M. (?) Student Presentation 54: Patcharanan (Literary Tool Chest: rhyme) Student Presentation 56: Neeranuch (?)
Assignment 3 due beginning of class |
Feb. 1 |
Unit 8 Theme: Tyranny and Suppression Reading (coursebook 75-77)
Discussion: theme, the interpretation of poetry |
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Week 15 |
Feb. 6 |
Unit 8 Theme: Tyranny and Suppression, Mothers and their Children Reading (coursebook 77-79)
Discussion: theme, the interpretation of poetry
Student Presentation 60: Pawinrat (Poetry World: poetry and war) Student Presentation 61: Pleowadee (Poetry World: poetry is reality) Student Presentation 62: Papawarin (?) Student Presentation 63: Patcharanan (The Hit List: capitalization) Student Presentation 64:
Assignment 4 given |
Feb. 8 |
Unit 8 Theme: Mothers and their Children Reading (coursebook 80)
Student Presentation 57: Tanyalak (Literary Tool Chest: ballad) Student Presentation 58: Pritzana (The Hit List: using informal expressions) Student Presentation 59: Tanadcha (Literary Tool Chest: overstatement) Student Presentation 55: Pochamarn (The Hit List: unity) |
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Week 16 |
Feb. 13 |
Unit 8 Theme: Mothers and their Children Reading (coursebook 81-85)
Student Presentation 65: Naruporn (?) Student Presentation 66: Pochamarn (?) Student Presentation 67: Neeranuch (?) Student Presentation 68:
Assignment 4 due beginning of class |
Feb. 15 |
Poetry Is... Final Paper due, 7-10 pages (follow the link for sample papers and writing guidelines)
Sessions 1: "Conquering the Jabberwocky" (Panjaporn, Phavit) |
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Week 17 |
Feb. 20 |
Poetry Is... Sessions 2:
Emily Dickinson, "I envy seas whereon he rides" (Tanyalak, Tanadcha, Pritzana) 4: "Wordsworth's 'Perfect Woman'" (Patcharanan, Porncharas, Phantida, Parima) 5: Sylvia Plath, "Insomniac" (Pawinrat, Naruporn, Neeranuch) |
Feb. 22 |
Poetry Is... Sessions 6: A Greater Freedom: Beating an Invisible Cage in Dunbar's "Sympathy" (Navanat, Pancharle, Nawaporn M., Nawaporn P.) |
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Feb. 27 |
Final Exam 8:30-10:30 a.m., BRK 301 Contains 2 parts (80 points total): one on in-class and coursebook material, and the other on an unseen poem
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