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Introduction

Figurative Language: simile, metaphor, symbol
Seamus Heaney, "Digging"
Marianne Moore, "The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing"
Ted Hughes, "The Thought-Fox"
Adrienne Rich, "Orion"
Reading Poetry, Chapter 1

Figurative Language: comparison and compression
Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"
John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
Emily Dickinson. #254, "Hope is the thing with feathers----"
Ezra Pound, "In the Station of the Metro"
RP, Chapter 5

Conventions
Christopher Marlow, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Nymph's Reply"
Shakespeare, "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun"
Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book"

Conventions
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
Queen Elizabeth I, "When I Was Young and Fair"
Yeats, "The Second Coming"
Louise Bogan, "Medusa"
OED Exercise Due

Word Choice and Word Order
Wordsworth, "A Few Lines Written above Tintern Abbey..."
G. M. Hopkins, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
Anonymous, "I Sing of a Maiden" (p. 57)
Emily Dickinson, #303, "The Soul Selects Her Own Society"

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Listening to a Voice I: Tone, Diction, Attitude
Anne Askew, "The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made..."
Blake, "Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau"
Robinson Jeffers, "Shine, Perishing Republic"
Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus"
RP, Chapter 7
Paper 1 Due

Listening to a Voice II: Speaker, Situation, Audience
Shelley, "Ozymandias"
Hardy, "The Darkling Thrush"
Louise Erdrich, "I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move"
Mona Van Duyn, "Letters from a Father"

Listening to a Voice III: Personae
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
Ted Hughes, "Examination at the Womb Door"
Rudyard Kipling, "Tommy"
June Jordan, "DeLiza Spend the Day in the City" (x)

Meter, Sound, and Rhythm I
Phyllis Wheatley, "To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"
George Herbert, "Love III"
Anthony Hecht, "More Light, More Light"
Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art"
RP, Chapter 2

Meter, Sound, and Rhythm II
Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky"
John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Muriel Rukeyser, "The Dam" (x)
Mary Leapor, "The Epistle of Deborah Dough"
RP, Chapter 8

Meter, Sound, and Rhythm: Rhyme and Repetition
Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool"
Dylan Thomas, "The Force that through the Green Fuse
Drives the Flower"
Wallace Stevens, "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Allen Ginsberg, from Howl

Form I: The Ballad
"Lord Randal"
"Sir Patrick Spens"
Muriel Rukeyser, "Ballad of Orange and Black"
Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Ballad of Chocolate Mabbie" (x)
"of DeWitt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetary" (x)
Pete Seeger, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"
RP, Chapter 11

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Form II: The Sonnet
Shakespeare, Sonnet 71
Donne, "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God"
E.S.V. Millay, "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare"
Brooks, "still do I keep my look, my identity" (x)
RP, Chapter 12
Paper 2 Due

Form III: Sestina and Villanelle
Bishop, "One Art"
W.H. Auden, "Miranda" (x)
Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
Hecht, "Sestina d'Inverno"(in Reading Poetry, p. 406)

Form IV: Free Verse
Gary Snyder, "The Hump-Backed Flute-Player" (x)
Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself"
William Carlos Williams, "This Is Just to Say"
Lucille Clifton, "miss rosie," "to a dark moses," "the inner city" (x)

Spring Break

Spring Break

Poetry and Cosmology I
excerpt from Pearl
Denise Levertov, "Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus" (x)
Marianne Moore. "The Steeple-Jack"
Alicia Ostriker, "A Meditation in Seven Days" (x)
RP, Chapter 13

Poetry and Cosmology II
Christopher Smart, from "Jubilate Agno"
Wallace Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West,"
"Anecdote of the Jar"
Aemilia Lanyer, from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Carolyn Forche, from The Angel of History

Chaucer, "The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales, ll. 1-479

T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"
"The Dry Salvages"

The Inferno, Cantos I-VI
Paper 3 Due

The Inferno, Cantos VII-XII

The Inferno, Cantos XIII-XVII

The Inferno, Cantos XVIII-XXIII

The Inferno, Cantos XXIV-XXIX

The Inferno, Cantos XXX-XXXIV

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