2202242 Introduction to the Study of English Poetry

 

Student Presentation Sign-Up Sheet

 

At the beginning of each class, a few of you will each give a 5-minute introduction to the class according to your chosen topic.  These presentations should layout your idea or argument about the topic that engages your friends in close-reading and critical thinking of the day’s reading material.  Prepare also some questions on interesting points for further conversation and allow some time for class discussion.

 

Each of you will be giving three five-minute presentations to help us start the lesson.  They are:

 

1. Poetry World: Explore the world of poetry.  How did it begin?  Where is poetry?  What can poetry do?  Is poetry still relevant in the 21st century?  Choose to discuss an issue in one of the topics on poetry listed below.

2. Literary Tool Chest: Introduce your friends to the various art of verbal expression.  Choose a literary term to explain to your classmates, with examples.

3. The Hit List: What do you find to be common problems among yourselves  in reading and writing about poetry?  Give friendly help to your classmates.

 

Poetry World

Literary Tool Chest

The Hit List

poetry in Ancient Egypt

deaf poetry

poetry in prisons

Burmese poetry

poetry and war

poetry in ancient China

poetry and therapy

poetry and children

poetry in Botswana

poetry is reality

poetry is fantasy

poetry and science

poetry and politics

poetry and religion

poetry in Bengal

poetry and music

Explore: Scriabin, The Poem of Ecstasy

 

commercialization of poetry

poetry and theory

Latin poetry

Homer

Madhusudan Dutta

Silver Age of Russian poetry

future of poetry

metaphor

personification

apostrophe

overstatement

understatement

allusion

metonymy

synecdoche

paradox

symbol

allegory

irony

alliteration

assonance

consonance

onomatopoeia

rhyme

meter and foot

sonnet

limerick

ballad

ode

carpe diem

spelling

verb-noun agreement

capitalization

noun-pronoun agreement

using informal expressions

word form

wrong word

absolute statements

being vague, broad, too general

logic

dangling modifier

run-on sentence

parallelism

cliches

showing v. telling

repetition

coherence, unity

substantiation, use of sources

tense

wordiness

clarity

punctuation

organization

   

Schedule

 

November 21                       

Discussion: Talking Big, Talking Small: Overstatement, Understatement

Student Presentation 1: Navanat (poetry and music)
Student Presentation 2: 
Student Presentation 3: 
Student Presentation 4: 

 

November 23                       

Discussion: intertextuality: allusion

Student Presentation 5: Phavit (sonnet)

Student Presentation 6: Panjaporn (meter and foot)

Student Presentation 7: Plyor (?)

 

November 28                       

Discussion: intertextuality: allusion; words and associations: metonymy

Student Presentation 8: Papaporn (poetry and children)

Student Presentation 9: Nawaporn M. (personification)

Student Presentation 10: Pritzana (allegory)

Student Presentation 11: Parima (poetry and therapy)

Student Presentation 12: Pancharle (allusion)

 

November 30                       

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 (metonymy v. metaphor)

Student Presentation 16: Neeranuch (poetry and children: nursery rhymes)

 

December 7                       

Discussion: imagining impossibility: paradox; words and meaning: symbol

Student Presentation 17: Phavit (Poetry World: poetry in Ancient Egypt)

Student Presentation 18: Papaorn (Literary Tool Chest: symbol)

Student Presentation 19: Papawarin (?)

Student Presentation 20: Pleowadee (?)

 

December 12                       

Discussion: imagining impossibility: paradox; words and meaning: symbol

Student Presentation 21: Navanat (Literary Tool Chest: irony)

Student Presentation 22: Panjaporn (Poetry World: Homer)

Student Presentation 23: Tanadcha (Poetry World: poetry in prisons)

Student Presentation 24: Parima (?)

   

December 19                        

Discussion: words and meaning: verbal and dramatic irony

Student Presentation 25: Pawinrat (Literary Tool Chest: verbal and dramatic irony)

Student Presentation 26: Papaporn (The Hit List: punctuation)

Student Presentation 27: Tanyalak (The Hit List: wrong word)

Student Presentation 28: Parima (?)

Student Presentation 29: Thanchanok (Poetry World: poetry is fantasy)

Student Presentation 30: Phantida (?)

 

December 21                        

Discussion: words and meaning: situational irony

Student Presentation 31: Nutcha (Poetry World: poetry and religion)
Student Presentation 32: Naruporn (Literary Tool Chest: carpe diem)
Student Presentation 33: 

 

January 2                    

Discussion: prose paraphrase

Student Presentation 34: Phantida (?)

Student Presentation 35: Pochamarn (Literary Tool Chest: ballad)

Student Presentation 36: Porncharas (The Hit List: verb-noun agreement)

Student Presentation 37: 

 

January 4                       

Discussion: words and sounds: repetition, refrain, alliteration, assonance, consonance

Student Presentation 38: Navanat (The Hit List: being vague, broad, too general)

Student Presentation 39: Phavit (The Hit List: cliche)

Student Presentation 40: Panjaporn (The Hit List: showing v. telling)

 

January 16                        

Discussion: sound and meaning: onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter, foot, scansion

Student Presentation 41: Pawinrat (The Hit List: logic)

Student Presentation 42: Pancharle (Poetry World: poetry in ancient China)

Student Presentation 43: Nawaporn M. (?)

Student Presentation 44: Porncharas (Poetry World: poetry and science)

Student Presentation 45: Pleowadee (?)

Student Presentation 46: Papawarin (?)

 

January 23                        

Discussion: forms and types of poetry: limerick, epic, romance

Student Presentation 47: Tanyalak (Poetry World: deaf poetry)

Student Presentation 48: Tanadcha (The Hit List: repetition)

Student Presentation 49: Patcharanan (Poetry World: poetry and politics)

 

January 25                        

Discussion: ballads

Student Presentation 50: Plyor (?)

Student Presentation 51 Pritzana (Poetry World: poetry and war)

Student Presentation 52: Pancharle (The Hit List: spelling)

 

January 30                       

Discussion: lyric, elegy, ode

Student Presentation 53: Naruporn (?)

Student Presentation 54: Nawaporn M. (?)

Student Presentation 55: Patcharanan (Literary Tool Chest: rhyme)

Student Presentation 56: Pochamarn (The Hit List: unity)

Student Presentation 57: Neeranuch (?)

 

February 1                        

Discussion: the interpretation of poetry: theme; tyranny and suppression

Student Presentation 58: Tanyalak (Literary Tool Chest: ballad)

Student Presentation 59: Pritzana (The Hit List: using informal expressions)

Student Presentation 60: Tanadcha (Literary Tool Chest: overstatement)

 

February 6                         

Discussion: the interpretation of poetry: theme; tyranny and suppression, mothers and their children

Student Presentation 61: Pawinrat (Poetry World: poetry and war)

Student Presentation 62: Pleowadee (Poetry World: poetry is reality)

Student Presentation 63: Papawarin (?)

Student Presentation 64: Patcharanan (The Hit List: capitalization)

Student Presentation 65: Nutcha (The Hit List: dangling modifier)

                     

February 13                       

Discussion: the interpretation of poetry: theme; mothers and their children

Student Presentation 66: Naruporn (?)

Student Presentation 67: Pochamarn (?)

Student Presentation 68: Neeranuch (?)

Student Presentation 69: 

 


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