Week 1--What is Literature?
W Aug 29--Introduction to Class/What
is Literature?
Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
Dickinson, “The
Thought beneath so slight a film--”
F
Aug 31--Introduction to Meter and Closed Form
Be frightened by an online glossary of poetic terms
Mini-Essay
What is Literature? Due
Shakespeare, “Shall
I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Shakespeare, “My mistress’ eyes
are nothing like the sun”
Shakespeare, “That
time of year thou mayst in me behold”
Wordsworth, "The
World is too much with us"
Shelley, “Ozymandias”
Keats, “When
I have fears that I may cease to be”
Millay “I
will put Chaos into fourteen lines
Week
2--Poetry: Closed Form/Genre/Free Verse
M Sep 3--Labor Day!!!
W Sep 5--Set
Up Blogging Account and e-mail me your blog's address.
Thomas, “Do
not go gentle into that good night”
Ball, “A
Sestina of Memories”
Dickinson, “Wild
Nights--Wild Nights!”
Dickinson, “Much
Madness is divinest Sense”
Dickinson, “Because
I would not stop for Death--”
Shelley, “Ode
to the West Wind”
R
Sep 6--Blog
due by 5pm; Choose ONE of the questions
below.
Summarize Keats's
"Ode on a Grecian Urn." What conclusion does the speaker
come to and how does he feel the urn teaches us that?
Many of the descriptions in Coleridge's "Kubla
Kahn" seem contradictory. Why is Coleridge using such images,
and how do they relate to the last stanza of the poem?
F
Sep 7--Keats, “La
Belle Dame sans Merci”
Keats, “Ode
on a Grecian Urn”
Coleridge, “Kubla
Kahn: or, a Vision in a Dream”
Whitman, "I
Hear America Singing"
Whitman, “Cavalry
Crossing a Ford”
Ginsberg, “A
Supermarket in California”
Week
3--Politics/Love, Sex & Death/Just Plain
Weird
M Sep 10--Hughes, “I,
Too”
Hughes, “Question”
Hughes, “Dream
Deferred”
Hughes, "Theme
for English B"
Porritt, "Read
This Poem From the Bottom Up"
Tennyson,
"Crossing the Bar"
Hardy, "Convergence
of the Twain"
Hardy, "Hap"
W
Sep 12--Dickinson, “My
life had stood--a loaded gun--”
Dickinson,
"I had not minded--walls--
Plath, “Daddy”
Plath, “Lady
Lazarus”
Cummings, “in
Just--”
Stafford, "Traveling
through the Dark"
Kumin, “Woodchucks”
Fainlight, “Flower
Feet”
Merrill, “Casual
Wear”
R
Sep 13--Blog
due by 5pm; Choose ONE of the questions
below.
Looking
at one of the Cummings poems, analyze how his style assists
the meaning of his text.
Choosing
one of Yeats's, Donne's, or Frost's works, focus on
a particular image or metaphor from the poem and discuss
how that one moment relates or is critical to the meaning
of the entire poem.
F Sep
14--Frost, “’Out,
Out--‘”
Frost, “Fire and Ice”
Donne, “The
Flea”
Yeats, “Leda
and the Swan”
Cummings, "i
like my body when it is with your"
Cummings, “she
being Brand”
Cummings, "since
feeling is first"
Dunn, "Decorum"[H]
Larkin, “This Be the Verse” [H]
Week
4--Just Plain Weird/Poetry Wrap-up
M Sep 17--Eliot, “The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Halliday, “Graded
Paper”
W
Sep 19--Catch Up Day
Read Slavitt's "Titanic" and
the bad Sample Essay that
goes with it.
R
Sep 20-F Sep 21--Class Cancelled
Individual Conferences in
MEM 213
Week 5--Short Story: Narrators and Narrative
M Sep 24--Poetry
Essay Due
GASS: Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart" [In Great
American Short Stories (GASS) and available online here.]
W
Sep 26--GASS: Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"
F
Sep 28--Updike,
"A & P" [Not in GASS]
Week
6--Allegory/Identity
M Oct 1--GASS: Hawthorne,
"Young Goodman Brown";
W
Oct 3--GASS: Chopin, "A Pair of Silk Stockings"
F
Oct 5--GASS:
Fitzgerald, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
Week
7--Just Plain Weird
M Oct 8--GASS: Melville, “Bartleby,
the Scrivener”
W
Oct 10--Finish
"Bartleby, the Scrivener"
F
Oct 12--Jackson,
"The Lottery" [Not in GASS]
Week
8--
M
Oct 15--Faulkner, "A
Rose for Emily" [Not in GASS]
W
Oct 17--Finish "A Rose for Emily"; General Questions before
Essay 2
R
Oct 18-F
Oct 19--Class
Cancelled
Individual Conferences for Short Story Essay
Week
9--Short Story Wrap Up/Drama
M Oct 22--Short Story Essay
Due
W
Oct 24--Introduction
to Drama/Taming of the Shrew 1
F
Oct 26--Fall Break; Class Cancelled
Week
10--Taming of the Shrew
M Oct 29--Taming of the
Shrew 2-3
W
Oct 31--Taming of the Shrew 4-5
F
Nov 2--Finish Taming
of the Shrew
Week
11--The Importance of Being Earnest
M Nov 5--The Importance
of Being Earnest I
W
Nov 7--The Importance of Being Earnest II
F
Nov 9--Finish The
Importance of Being Earnest III
Introduction
to Film
Week
12--Film
M Nov 12--Girl, Interrupted
W
Nov 14--Girl, Interrupted
F
Nov 16--Girl,
Interrupted
Week
13--Novel/Film
M Nov 19--Drama
Essay Due
Girl, Interrupted discussion
W
Nov 21--Girl, Interrupted discussion
F
Nov 23--Turkey
Day
Week
14--Novel/Film
M Nov 26--Class Cancelled
W
Nov 28--Fight Club discussion
F
Nov 30--Fight Club discussion
Week
15--Novel/Film
M Dec 3--Girl, Interrupted & Fight
Club discussion
W
Dec 5--Final
Essay Due
Self-assessment/Class-assessment
