ELIT 11: Introduction to Poetry, Winter Quarter 2015 Week 1 (Mon 1/5-Thur 1/8) Class: An Introduction to ELIT 11: reading, assignments, expectations, and evaluation Neruda’s “Prayer for the Earth” and Smith’s “Do You Wonder, Sometimes?” Reading Poetry: How and Why A (generalist) Poetry Introduction: Form, Terms, Movements, and Style Case study: Rumi, the ancient modernist Reading: Coleman Barks’ Introduction to A Year with Rumi (1-9), 20 Rumi poems (your choice), An Introduction to Poetry Ch. 1 (2-15) Writing: Analytical Response on Rumi due Thur 1/8 (100 pts) Week 2 (Mon 1/12-Thur 1/15) Class: Listening to Voice, Loudly and Subtly: Tone, Persona, Irony, Confessional Poetry Reading: An Introduction to Poetry, Ch. 2 (19-38) and Ch. 14 (262-264) Supplemental poems: Plath: “Daddy” Jordan: “Memo” Addonizio: “What Do Women Want?” Week 3 (Tue 1/20-Thur 1/22) Mon, 1/19: No Class, Dr. MLK Jr Holiday Class: Using Words for Revolution and Enchantment: Modernism, PostModernism, Diction, Denotation/Connotation Reading: An Introduction to Poetry, Ch 3 (48-51) and Ch 4 (72-79) Poets: Dickinson, Frost, cummings, Williams, Pound, Eliot, Stevens Week 4 (Mon 1/26-Thur 1/29) Class: A=B, Figurative Language: Allegory, Metaphor, Simile, Symbol, Symbolist Movement, Pathetic Fallacy, Imagery, Imagist Movement, Myth, Archetype Reading: An Introduction to Poetry, Ch 5 (84-90) and Ch 6 (104-118) and Ch 12 (226-233) and Ch 13 (240-242, 245-246, 248-256) Supplemental Poems: Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Simic: “The Stone” Stevens: “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” “The Snowman,” “Anecdote of a Jar” Yeats: “Leda and the Swan” Week 5 (Mon 2/2-2/5) Class: Form, Form without Form, and a New Form: Free-Verse, Sestina, Villanelle, Found Poetry, Visual Poetry, Sonnet, The Beat Movement, New Critics, The New York School, Personism, Black Mountain College, San Francisco Renaissance Reading: An Introduction to Poetry, Ch 10 (190-195, 198-200) Ch 11 (204-212, 216-217 Supplemental poets: Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Bukowski, O’Hara, Spicer, Brautigan, Creeley, and Padgett Week 6 (Mon 2/9-Thur 2/12) Class: Mid-Term Exam Review Reading: Re-reading, Review, Reflect, Catch-up Writing: Mid-Term Exam: Wed 2/11 and Thur 2/12 (200 pts total) Week 7 (Tue 2/17-Thur 2/19) Mon, 2/16: No Class, Presidents’ Holiday Class: Song, Sound, and the Rhythm of Meaning Reading: An Introduction to Poetry, Ch 7 and Ch 8 and Ch 9 Note: This schedule is subject to revision. JKQ