"MODERN POETRY I"- SCHEDULE

M 1:30-3:20; W 1:30-2:20
Instructor: Cheryl J. Mares
E-mail address: mares@sbc.edu
Office Hours: MW 3:30-4:30 (and by appt.)

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9/16 - Yeats Assignment
11/20 - Paper (option to revise) OR 12/2 (no option to revise)
12/6 - Revised papers and Portfolios
8/26 - Introduction

William Butler Yeats

"The Stolen Child" (xerox)
"Down by the Salley Gardens" (p.139)
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (p.140 +xerox)
"The Song of the Wandering Aengus" (xerox)
8/28 - "Lamentation of the Old Pensioner" (p.143 +xerox); In Norton: Introduction - pp.3-5 (top) + Biographical Sketch of Yeats and
"Adam's Curse" (p.147)
9/2 - Yeats (cont.) - "No Second Troy" (p.148); "September 1913" (p.150); "The Wild Swans At Coole" (p.153); "Easter 1916" (p.156)

9/4 - Commentary due. [ERICA, LEE]
  Discuss Yeats writing assignment.
Yeats (cont.): "The Second Coming" (p.158); "A Prayer for My Daughter"(p.158)

9/9 - STUDENT-LED SESSION. [ALI, JAMIE]
Yeats (cont.) - "Sailing to Byzantium"(p.161); "Among School Children" (p.167); "Coole and Ballylee, 1931" (p.172)

9/11 - Commentary due. [LAUREL, MEGHAN, TESS]
Yeats (cont.): "Coole and Ballylee, 1931" (cont.); "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" (p.178); "Cuchulain Comforted" (xerox); "The Circus Animals' Desertion" (p.185); "Politics" (xerox)
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9/16 - Yeats writing assignment due.
Gertrude Stein (all readings are in xerox packet)
Biographical Sketches

"Patriarchal Poetry"

Excerpts from:
"Tender Buttons"
"Lifting Belly"
+"Commentary"
9/18 - Commentary due. [ERICA, LEE, ALI, JAMIE]
Stein (cont.) -"Identity a Poem" (xerox +) + Charles Bernstein, "Stein's Identity"; Excerpts on "Patriarchal Poetry"; Excerpt from "A Geographical History of America" + STEIN at SBC!  Read all about it in the Sweet Briar News stories in your packet.

9/23 - T.S. Eliot

Biographical Sketch (in Norton)
Background Sketch - from Di Yanni's Modern American Poetry (xerox)

"The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Prufrock Questions (xerox)
"The Hollow Men"

 

[T.S. Eliot video- Voices and Visions series]

9/25 - Commentary due. [MEGHAN, LAUREL, TESS]
Eliot (cont.) - "Prufrock" (cont.)

[9/26 -27 - READING DAYS]
9/30 - Eliot (cont.) - "The Waste Land" ("The Burial of the Dead" and "Game of Chess") + Excerpt on "The Waste Land" from Rosenthal and Gall (xerox)

10/2 -STUDENT-LED SESSION. [JAMIE and LEE] + Commentary due. [MEGHAN, ALI, ERICA]
Eliot (cont.) - "The Waste Land" ("The Fire Sermon" and "Death by Water")

10/7 - Eliot (cont.) "The Waste Land" ("What the Thunder Said"); "Little Gidding" (from Four Quartets)

10/9 -

D.H. Lawrence
In Norton : Biographical sketch
"Love on the Farm" (p.354)
"The Bride" (p.356)
"Piano" (p.358)
"Song of a Man Who Has Come Through" (xerox)
"Snake" (p.361)

10/14 - STUDENT-LED SESSION. [ERICA, MEGHAN, and LAUREL]
Lawrence (cont.): "Lui et Elle" (p.363); "Man and Bat" (xerox); "Pomegranate" (xerox); "Peach" (xerox);"Red Geranium and Godly Mignonette" (p.369); "Whales Weep Not!" (p.369)

10/16 - Commentary due. [TESS, ALI, and JAMIE]
Lawrence (cont.) - "Bavarian Gentians" (p.371); "The Ship of Death" (p.371 + xeroxed revised version): "Shadows" + Excerpt from Sagar's D.H. Lawrence: Life into Art (xerox)

10/21 - Marianne Moore
Moore video
Biographical sketch
"The Fish" (p.456)
"Poetry" (p.457)
"Critics and Connoisseurs" (p.457)
"A Grave" (p.458)
Commentary due. [LEE, MEGHAN, LAUREL]
10/23 - STUDENT-LED SESSION. [TESS, ALI, and ERICA]
Moore (cont.) - "Marriage"(xerox)

10/28 - Moore, "Marriage" (cont.) + "The Pangolin"/ Williams video

10/30 - Commentary due. [ALI, JAMIE, ERICA]

William Carlos Williams


Biographical Sketch
"The Great Figure" (p.317)
"Spring and All" (p.318)
"The Red Wheelbarrow" (p.318)
"This Is Just to Say" (p.320)
"The Young Housewife" (p.322)

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11/4 - STUDENT-LED SESSION. [LAUREL and MEGHAN] [+ video excerpt - "To Elsie"]
Williams (cont.) - "To Elsie" (xerox); "Young Sycamore" (xerox); "The Locust Tree in Flower" (1st & 2nd versions - xerox)

11/6 - Some comments on doing research (and xerox on research papers).
PAPER PROPOSAL DUE (if you are submitting paper on 11/20); Commentary due.  [LEE, TESS] 
Williams (cont.) - "Between Walls" (+Perloff Commentary - xerox); "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" (Book I - xerox)
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11/11 - Commentary due. [ALI, JAMIE] 

Wallace Stevens - biographical sketches; "The Snow-Man"; "Sunday Morning"; "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

11/13 - Stevens (cont.) -"The Idea of Order at Key West"; "Part XV: Esthétique du Mal; "The Plain Sense of Things"; "A Quiet, Normal Life"

[11/ 15 (Friday by noon) - PAPER PROPOSAL DUE (if you are submitting paper on 12/02)]
11/18 - Stevens (cont.) - Guest Teacher: Constance Merritt, Banister-Writer-in Residence
 "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"; "The Planet on the Table"; "Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself"; "The Course of a Particular"; "A Clear Day and No Memories"; "Of Mere Being"; "As You Leave the Room"

11/20 - Commentary due.  [MEGHAN, ERICA, LAUREL, TESS]
Langston Hughes - Biographical sketch
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
"Mother to Son"
"Dream Variations"
"Mulatto"
"I,Too"
"My People"
"The Weary Blues"

[11/22 - PAPER DUE, if you want the option to revise. Revised papers are due December 4.]


>>>THANKSGIVING BREAK<<<
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12/2 - PAPER DUE, if not submitted on 11/22.
STUDENT-LED SESSION. [LEE, TESS, ALI]
Hughes (cont.) -

"Song for a Dark Girl"
"Young Girl's Blues"
"Morning After"
"Trumpet Player"
"When Sue Wears Red"
"Madam and the Rent Man"
"Aunt Sue's Stories"
"Feet O' Jesus"
"Genius Child"
"Listen Here Blues"
"Consider Me"
"Let America Be America Again"
"Negro Ghetto"
""Note on Commercial Theatre"
"I'm Still Here"
"Come to the Waldorf-Astoria"
"Christ in Alabama"
"Wait"
"Harlem Sweeties"


12/4 - Hughes (cont.) - Excerpts from "Montage of a Dream Deferred" (xerox). Discuss final presentations.

[12/6 - Revised papers due (only those submitted by 11/22). Portfolios due.]
[Classes end: 12/6.     Reading Day: 12/7.     Exams: 12/8-12/13.]

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