Freshman English Readings 大一英文
Freshmen 英一乙
Spring 2012
Tue.: 6:40-8:20
4 Credits; required
Miranda Chen
ES 508
Objectives:
Thu.: 6:40-8:20
Office: ES 518; 29052854
020851@mail.fju.edu.tw
This course will provide an introduction to the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama through
readings of English and American literary works. In the first semester, students will read
fables, parables, tales, short stories, and a tragedy. The second semester will take up poetry,
a novel (or a novella), and a comedy. Students are expected to finish all the readings
selected, to discuss in groups and with the teaching assistant, and to hand in reading journals
in typewriting or research sources on certain writers or literary terms assigned. Occasional
check tests will be given at the beginning of classes. Class attendance and participation are
highly emphasized. There will also be a midterm and a final examination. A notebook
compiled with all the notes students take during the semester is required and it is to be
submitted at the end of the semester.
Grading policy:
Midterm & Final Exams.
Journals, Quizzes & Notes
Attendance, Preparation & Participation
Text:
60%
25%
15%
Arp, Thomas R. & Greg Johnson Eds. Sound & Sense: An Introduction to Poetry.
12th Ed. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008.
Tentative Syllabus:
Feb. 14
Introduction to Poetry: What is poetry? 3-4
A. Tennyson
“The Eagle” 5
“Catch” (xerox)
“The Pitcher”
practical / literary
16
Robert Francis:
21
Poetry: Reading a Poem 24-25
Philip Larkin:
“A Study of Reading Habits” 27
writer / reader
Form: Visual poems
Dorthi Charles:
“Concrete Cat” (xerox)
A.E. Housman:
“Is My Team Plowing” 30-31 + xerox
e. e. cummings:
“l (a)” (xerox)
form
arrangement
visual imagery
Art vs. Life: Imagination vs. the Reality
e. e. cummings:
“in Just-” 139
visual / imagination
23
28
lyric poems
writer / reader
Mar.
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” 238
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” 417-8
1
Adrienne Rich:
W. B. Yeats:
6
Listening to a Voice—Speaker, Tone, Point of View & Word Choice 163
T. Roethke:
“My Papa’s Waltz” 401
speaker / voice
R. Hayden:
“Those Winter Sundays” 66
situation
8
G. Brooks:
Linda Pastan:
Wilfred Owen:
“We Real Cool” 190
“Marks” (xerox)
*“Dulce et Decorum Est” 7-8
Robert Frost:
“The Road Not Taken” 90
speaker / voice
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
13
situation: reality /
imagination
language/rhythm
humor
word choice
150
15
Listening to a voice: Denotation & Connotation 42
W. Shakespeare: “When my love swears that she is made of truth” 44
N. Trethewey:
“White Lies” (xerox)
20
Imagery & Symbol 56
Robert Browning: “Meeting at Night” 57
“Parting at Morning” 58
William Blake:
“The Sick Rose” 93
22
Open Form: Poetry & Painting
Natalie Safir:
“Matisse’s Dance” (xerox)
W.C. Williams:
“The Dance” 241
27/29
Apr.
W.C. Williams:
W.H. Auden:
irony
speaker / listener
word picture
sound / rhythm
“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (xerox)
“Musée des Beaux Arts” 344
3
5
No Class
10
Class Wrap-up
12
Midterm Exam
17/19
Literary Tradition& Poetic “Kinds”
Robert Herrick:
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” 98
J.C. Ransom:
“Piazza Piece” (xerox)
carpe diem
Apr. 24
26
May 3
8
10
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (xerox) pastoral lyrics
“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” (xerox) answering
C.D. Lewis:
“Song” (xerox)
parody
Fiction: Novel & Novella
To Be Decided
Figures of Speech: Simile & Metaphor 110
Robert Burns:
“Oh, My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose” (xerox) simile
W. Shakespeare: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” 12
metaphor
*“That time of year thou mayst in me behold” 507
Poetic Structure: Internal & External Forms
Anonymous:
“Sir Patrick Spens” (xerox)
Anonymous:
“Bonny Barbara Allan” (xerox)
folk ballad
femme fatale
15
John Keats:
E.A. Poe:
“La Belle Dame sans Merci” 381-2
“Annabelle Lee” (xerox)
17
Petrarch:
P.B. Shelley:
“She used to let her golden hair fly free” (xerox)
“Ozymandias” 121-2
22
W. Shakespeare:
e. e. cummings:
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” 169-70
English
“when serpents bargain for the right to squirm” (xerox)
sonnet
24
John Keats:
* John Keats:
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” 278-80
“To Autumn” 68-9
29/31
Jun.
C. Marlowe:
Sir W. Raleigh:
literary ballad
Italian sonnet
ode
Constructing Identity, Exploring Gender
Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” 132-4
*Dorothy Parker: “A Certain Lady” (xerox)
dramatic
monologue
5
John Donne:
“The Flea” 174 -5
Emily Dickinson: “I taste a liquor never brewed” 82
*“Because I could not stop for Death” 106
e. e. cummings:
*“anyone lived in a pretty how town” (xerox)
metaphysical
poetry
7/12
14/19
Drama: Tragedy & Comedy
John Patrick:
The Teahouse of the August Moon (+Videotape)
21
Final Exam +
*Notebook
Comedy