Assignment: Essay IV

Rough Draft due: Tuesday, April 30th
Final Draft due: Thursday, May 1
Length: 5-7pp

Format: double-spacing, 12-pt font, in Times New Roman or a similar font. No Courier. No Ariel. Please.
Heading: Name and date, single-spaced at the top. Optional title.

  • You will need to discuss the items in any one of the following groupings of poems plus criticism.
  • Most of these groupings will consist, at least in part, of previously assigned material.
  • You will need to relate the poems within the selected group, using the critical material to advance your discussion.
  • Below are a few choices. I will keep adding to these over the next few days.
  • If there is a combination other than one I list that you're interested in doing, talk to me about it.
  • For additional crtical extracts and information on (for the most part) modern American poets, visit the Modern American Poetry site.
  • O'Hara, "Personism"
  • Ashbery, "Paradoxes and Oxymorons"
  • Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" (or an O'Hara poem)
  • Any of the criticism on O'Hara, Ashbery, and/or Williams

  • Any assigned Ginsberg poem
  • Any assigned Whitman poem
  • Any of the respective criticism

  • Stevens, "Anecdote of a Jar"
  • Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"
  • Any of the respective criticism

  • Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" or Stevens, "Anecdote of a Jar"
  • Graham, "The Way Things Work"
  • Mitchell, "Ekphrasis and the Other" or criticism on one or more of the poems

  • Plath, "Lazarus" and/or "Daddy"
  • Eliot, "Prufrock"
  • Britzolakis on Plath, plus any of the other previously linked Plath criticism

  • Mina Loy, "Apology of Genius" plus the linked criticism
  • Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck" [N]
  • Criticism on Rich.

  • Eliot, "Prufrock"
  • Ginsberg, "Howl"
  • Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass
  • Any suitable criticism via the Modern American Poetry site or other resources

  • Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" [N]
  • O'Hara, "An Image of Leda"
  • Graham, "Fission" [x]

  • Koch, "Talking to Patrizia"
  • O'Hara, "Having a Coke with You"
  • O'Hara, "Personism"

  • Any combination of two Dickinson poems in Norton (with some of the criticism)
  • Any of the Donne Holy Sonnets in Norton.

  • Marianne Moore, "Poetry" [N 760] with the linked criticism
  • Loy, "Apologia for Genius" or "Lunar Baedeker" with the linked criticism

    (more choices on the way)



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