ENG 3015: SURVEY OF ENGLISH LIT II
ORAL PRESENTATION
DR. MARY MCGLYNN
SPRING 2011
GUIDELINES FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS
The purpose of the oral presentations is to give you a chance to lead the discussion of
a text in a direction of interest to you while honing your skills in making an organized
address to an audience. Working in pairs or trios, you will develop a 6-8 minute talk in
which you close read a passage or make an argument about a poem. I would urge you
to avoid online research, but should you venture madly into the ether, recall that all
spoken or written words should be your own, with all sources clearly indicated. After
the presentation, you will submit a written version of your project—each student will
receive a separate grade based on a combination of your presentation and written
work.
Please plan to meet with me before your presentation—this can be a short
conversation before or after class, or we can meet in my office. I may have some
context or very short supplementary readings that you may want to draw on or
incorporate.
All the poems below are in the Longman Anthology I ordered for the class—I’d ask you
to spend 20 minutes looking through the prospective offerings, with the goal of
choosing 2 poems/poets that would interest you. While I’ve selected some of the more
canonical poems, you may opt to talk about another by the author you choose instead,
in consultation with me. I will form pairs/trios and give you presentation dates and
further details next class. (Email me if you have a specific partner in mind!)
The Victorians (presentations on March 23rd)
1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee?”)
Melissa Swan, Craig Thomas, and Domingo Salazar
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Charge of the Light Brigade”
Elizabeth Steele, Ashley Zhang, and Jihyun Hwang
3. Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The Woodspurge”
5. Christina Rossetti, “In An Artist’s Studio”
Sanghee Lee and Laura Rossi
(presentations on March 28th)
6. Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”
Elaine Yan and Amira McLoughlin
7. Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
Elliot Figueroa and Teresa Roca
8. Rudyard Kipling, “If”
Timothy Donnelly
9. William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
Farisha Ali, Bahar Dandona, and Savannah Goveia
10. Thomas Hardy, “Hap”
Ryan Munroe
The Modernists (presentations on April 13th)
11. William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Ricky Persaud, Yvonne Davenport, and Melissa Arthur
12. Siegfried Sassoon, “They”
Melissa Peña
13. Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier”
Trang Tran and Eric Favolaro
14. Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
Martine Figaro
15. William Butler Yeats, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”
Christine Santiago, Rikki SaNogueira, and Belinda Keatts
16. Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
Lyaman Izmaylova, Madhavi Narikot, and Casey Zupancic
17. W.H. Auden, “Lullaby”
Sheba Mason and Jasmine Bajraktari