*2023 Note<\/strong>. Links have been removed from this archival version of the syllabus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n COURSE INFORMATION.<\/strong> English 252 Introduction to Poetry. Fall 2004 at Chapman University in Orange, California. Beckman Hall 205. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Cyber Caf\u00e9 in Beckman Hall, M\/W 10:00 \u2013 11:00 a.m. Email: e252_at_ajdrake.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ferguson, Margaret et al. The Norton Anthology of Poetry.<\/em> 4th ed. New York: Norton, 1996. ISBN 0393968200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems.<\/em> San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1991. ISBN 0872860175.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hollander, John. Rhyme\u2019s Reason.<\/em> 3rd ed. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001. ISBN 0300088329.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shakespeare. Macbeth.<\/em> New York: Penguin, 2000. ISBN 0140714782.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FOCUS AND OBJECTIVES<\/strong>. We will study a variety of poetic forms from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, with reference as needed to poetic theory and prosody. The course features both British and American poets. Poetry, we might say, is where language goes to be most fully itself, and least referential with respect to the world beyond it. As Hannah Arendt observes in The Human Condition, \u201cPoetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.\u201d This genre, then, demands a certain kind of attentiveness to its status as highly compressed language and to its multiplicity of forms, both simple and complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ACTIVITIES. <\/strong>In class, there will be a mix of lectures, whole-class and smaller-group discussion, occasional quizzes, an essay, and a final exam. I encourage questions and comments\u2014class sessions improve when students take an active part. Outside class, do the assigned readings before the relevant discussion dates, and start planning and drafting your essay early. In literary studies, the aim is to read and discuss actively and thereby to develop your own voice in response to the texts you read. Insightful interpretation and the ability to make compelling connections are central goals. The essay, discussions, and journal-keeping should combine to help you work towards these goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n COURSE POLICIES. <\/strong>Please review the course policies page early in the semester since it addresses matters such as attendance, incompletes and withdrawal, late or missing work, and academic integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ESSAY REQUIREMENT.<\/strong> Please view instructions. Also see advance draft comments available on this site. Paper 1 due Friday of Week 4 (09\/24). 15% of course grade. Paper 2 due Monday of Week 10 (11\/01). 25% of course grade. Paper 3 due on day of final exam. 35% of course grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FINAL EXAM REQUIREMENT.<\/strong> 25% of course grade; view suggestions on how to prepare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 08\/30. Course Introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 09\/01. Thomas Wyatt. (113 ff.) \u201cThe Long Love\u201d; \u201cWhoso List to Hunt\u201d; \u201cMadam, Withouten Many Words\u201d; \u201cThey Flee from Me\u201d; \u201cMine Own John Poins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 09\/03. Shakespeare. (234 ff) Sonnets<\/em> 18, 30, 55, 73, 94, 116, 129, 130, 138, 146.<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 09\/06. Labor Day Holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 09\/08. Shakespeare. Macbeth.<\/em> Director Polanski, 50 of 139 mins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 09\/10. Shakespeare. Macbeth.<\/em> Discussion of first two acts. *Separate Text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 09\/13. Shakespeare. Macbeth.<\/em> Director Polanski, 50 of 139 mins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 09\/15. Shakespeare. Macbeth.<\/em> Director Polanski, 50 of 139 mins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 09\/17. Shakespeare. Macbeth.<\/em> Discussion of last three acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 09\/20. John Donne. (263 ff) \u201cThe Good Morrow\u201d; \u201cSong — Go and Catch a Falling Star\u201d; \u201cThe Canonization\u201d; \u201cA Nocturnal upon St. Lucy\u2019s Day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 09\/22. John Donne. (263 ff) \u201cA Valediction Forbidding Mourning\u201d; \u201cThe Ecstasy\u201d; \u201cThe Flea\u201d; \u201cSatire III\u201d; \u201cGood Friday, 1613\u201d; Holy Sonnets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 09\/24. John Milton. (354 ff) Lycidas; \u201cL\u2019Allegro\u201d\/\u201dIl Penseroso\u201d; \u201cMethought I Saw…\u201d Paper 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 09\/27. John Milton. (380 ff) Paradise Lost,<\/em> Book 1 Invocation and Book 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 09\/29. John Dryden and Alexander Pope. Dryden (456 ff): \u201cA Song for St. Cecilia\u2019s Day.\u201d Pope (539 ff): The Rape of the Lock.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 10\/01. Alexander Pope. (539 ff) The Rape of the Lock.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 10\/04. William Blake. (670 ff) Songs of Innocence.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 10\/06. William Blake. (678 ff) Songs of Experience.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 10\/08. William Wordsworth. (699 ff) \u201cShe Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways\u201d; \u201cThree Years She Grew\u201d; \u201cA Slumber did My Spirit Seal\u201d; \u201cI Wandered Lonely As a Cloud\u201d; \u201cThe Solitary Reaper.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 10\/11. William Wordsworth. (699 ff) \u201cLines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 10\/13. S. T. Coleridge. (744 ff) \u201cThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 10\/15. P. B. Shelley. (801 ff) \u201cOde to the West Wind\u201d; \u201cTo a Skylark.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 10\/18. John Keats. (842 ff) \u201cLa Belle Dame Sans Merci\u201d; \u201cOde on a Grecian Urn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 10\/20. Alfred Tennyson. (888 ff) \u201cThe Lady of Shalott\u201d; \u201cThe Lotos-Eaters\u201d; \u201cUlysses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 10\/22. No class — I\u2019ll be in Tacoma, Washington for a conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 10\/25. D. G. Rossetti, Lewis Carroll, and A. C. Swinburne. Rossetti: (1000 ff) \u201cThe Blessed Damozel.\u201d Carroll (1032 ff): \u201cJabberwocky.\u201d Swinburne (1045 ff): \u201cThe Garden of Proserpine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 10\/27. G. M. Hopkins. (1062 ff) \u201cGod\u2019s Grandeur\u201d; \u201cThe Windhover\u201d; \u201cPied Beauty\u201d; \u201cFelix Randal\u201d; \u201cSpring and Fall\u201d; \u201cAs Kingfishers Catch Fire\u201d; \u201cCarrion Comfort\u201d; \u201cNo Worst, There is None\u201d; \u201cI Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day\u201d; \u201cMy Own Heart…\u201d; \u201cThat Nature is a Heraclitean Fire…\u201d; \u201cThou Art Indeed Just, Lord….\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 10\/29. Walt Whitman. (961 ff) Song of Myself<\/em> 1, 6, 11, 24, 52, \u201cOut of the Cradle…\u201d; \u201cWhen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom\u2019d\u201d; \u201cTo a Locomotive in Winter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 11\/01. Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe. Dickinson (1012 ff): 254, 258, 280, 435, 465, 505, 712, 754, 1129. Poe (881 ff): \u201cThe Raven.\u201d Paper 2 due.<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 11\/03. A. E. Housman. (1068 ff) \u201cLoveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now\u201d; \u201cTo an Athlete Dying Young\u201d; \u201cOn Wenlock Edge\u201d; \u201cTerence, This Is Stupid Stuff\u201d; \u201cEpitaph on an Army of Mercenaries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 11\/05. W. B. Yeats. (1084 ff) \u201cThe Lake Isle of Innisfree\u201d; \u201cThe Second Coming\u201d; \u201cSailing to Byzantium\u201d; \u201cLeda and the Swan\u201d; \u201cByzantium\u201d; \u201cCrazy Jane Talks with the Bishop\u201d; \u201cAmong School Children\u201d; \u201cCircus Animals\u2019 Desertion\u201d; \u201cUnder Ben Bulben.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 11\/08. Robert Frost. (1121 ff) \u201cMending Wall\u201d; \u201cThe Road Not Taken\u201d; \u201cStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening\u201d; \u201cAcquainted with the Night\u201d; \u201cWest-Running Brook, \u201cDesign\u201d; \u201cNever Again Would Birds\u2019 Song Be the Same\u201d; \u201cThe Gift Outright.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 11\/10. Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, and Wallace Stevens. Sandburg (1146 ff): \u201cChicago\u201d; \u201cGrass.\u201d Lowell (1140 ff): \u201cPatterns.\u201d Stevens (1150 ff): \u201cThe Snow Man\u201d; \u201cThe Emperor of Ice-Cream\u201d; \u201cAnecdote of the Jar\u201d; \u201cThirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird\u201d; \u201cThe Idea of Order at Key West.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 11\/12. William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Williams (1167 ff): \u201cThis is Just to Say\u201d; \u201cPoem\u201d; \u201cThe Yachts\u201d; \u201cA Sort of a Song\u201d; from \u201cAsphodel, That Greeny Flower.\u201d Pound (1187 ff): \u201cThe Seafarer\u201d; \u201cIn a Station of the Metro\u201d; \u201cThe River-Merchant\u2019s Wife: a Letter\u201d; from Cantos,<\/em> 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 11\/15. Hilda Doolittle (\u201cH.D.\u201d) and Marianne Moore. Doolittle (1202 ff): \u201cSea Rose\u201d; \u201cSea Violet\u201d; \u201cHelen\u201d; \u201cWine Bowl.\u201d Moore (1218 ff): \u201cPoetry\u201d; \u201cThe Steeple-Jack\u201d; \u201cThe Fish, \u201cA Grave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 11\/17. T. S. Eliot. (1230 ff) \u201cJ. Alfred Prufrock\u201d; The Waste Land.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 11\/19. T. S. Eliot. (1236 ff) The Waste Land.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 11\/22. Archibald MacLeish and E. E. Cummings. MacLeish (1270 ff): \u201cArs Poetica\u201d; \u201cYou, Andrew Marvell\u201d; \u201cThe Snowflake….\u201d Cummings (1282 ff): \u201cin Just-\u201d; \u201cthe Cambridge ladies…\u201d; \u201cSpring is like a perhaps hand\u201d; \u201cnext to of course god america i\u201d; \u201ci sing of Olaf glad and big\u201d; \u201csomewhere I have never travelled,gladly beyond\u201d; \u201canyone lived in a pretty how town\u201d; \u201cmy father moved through dooms of love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 11\/24. W. H. Auden. (1360 ff) \u201cAs I Walked Out One Evening\u201d; \u201cSpain 1937\u201d; \u201cMus\u00e9e des Beaux Arts\u201d; \u201cThe Shield of Achilles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 11\/26. Thanksgiving holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 11\/29. Visiting poet one meeting this week or next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 12\/01. Allen Ginsberg. Howl.<\/em> *Separate Text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 12\/03. Allen Ginsberg. Howl.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 12\/06. Theodore Roethke. (1385 ff) \u201cRoot Cellar\u201d; \u201cMy Papa\u2019s Waltz\u201d; \u201cThe Lost Son\u201d; \u201cElegy for Jane\u201d; \u201cThe Waking\u201d; \u201cI Knew a Woman\u201d; \u201cWish for a Young Wife.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 12\/08. Dylan Thomas. (1460 ff) \u201cThe Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower\u201d; \u201cAfter the Funeral\u201d; \u201cA Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London\u201d; \u201cThe Conversation of Prayer\u201d; \u201cFern Hill\u201d; \u201cIn My Craft or Sullen Art\u201d; \u201cDo Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. 12\/10. Sylvia Plath. (1728 ff) \u201cThe Colossus\u201d; \u201cMorning Song\u201d; \u201cTulips\u201d; \u201cElm\u201d; \u201cDaddy\u201d; \u201cAriel\u201d; \u201cLady Lazarus\u201d; \u201cBlack Rook in Rainy Weather.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exam date Monday 12\/13. 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