Sound and Sense 50th Anniversary Edition – Laurence Perrine
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Read all of the chapters and all of the poems in each chapter.
Take notes on major concepts, terms, and examples.
For assigned poem questions and exercises, write out the answers in complete sentences
on a separate piece of paper for each chapter. If they are collected, you will not be giving
up notes from the chapter, or if you are going to use it as a reference for a pop quiz, you
can have it and only it on your desk. These sheets could be collected at any time; have
them with you ALWAYS (leaving it at home is the same as not having it).
If you have the Ninth Edition of Sound and Sense, you have received a set of photocopies
from the 50th Anniversary Edition containing assigned poems/questions, exercises and
poems that we will be discussing in class. Page numbers, where they are different, have
been indicated.
11/5 – Chapters 1 & 2 (There will be time to work on these in class)
Chapter 1:
Answer Questions on “Poetry I” (Green photocopy) and “Ars Poetica”
Chapter 2:
Answer Questions on “Mirror”
11/7 - Chapters 3 & 4
Chapter 3:
Answer Questions on “The World is Too Much with Us;” Complete the Exercise on p. 47
(Green 43)
Chapter 4:
Answer Questions on “I Felt a Funeral” and “After Apple-Picking”
11/8 - Chapters 5 & 6
Chapter 5:
Answer Questions on “Valediction;” complete exercise on page 79
Chapter 6:
Answer Questions on “Ulysses” and Exercises #1 and #4 on p. 101
11/13 - Chapters 7, 8, 9 & 10
Chapter 7:
Answer Questions on “Barbie Doll” (Green photocopy) and “History Teacher;” Complete
the Exercise on 121 and 122 (Green 110)
Chapter 8:
Answer Questions on “Hazel tells LaVerne” (Green photocopy) and “in Just – Spring”
Read “I Dream I’m the Death of Orpheus” (Green photocopy)
Chapter 9:
Answer Questions on “Sonnet” (p.155) and “The Indifferent”
Chapter 10:
Answer Questions on “Ending” and “Love”
11/14 – Chapters 11 and 12
Chapter 11:
Complete Exercise on 186 (Green 176) Answer Questions on “We Real Cool” and “As
Imperceptibly as Grief”
Chapter 12:
Complete Exercise on 209-210 (Green 191-192) Answer Questions on “To a Daughter
Leaving Home” and “Constantly Risking Absurdity”
11/15 – Chapters 13 and 14
Chapter 13:
Complete Exercise on 232-233 (Green 209-210) Answer Questions 1-3 on “Sound and
Sense” and “Landcrab”
Chapter 14:
Answer Questions on “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” and “The Story We
Know”
11/16 – Chapters 15 and 16
Chapter 15:
Complete the Comparison Questions Between “A Poison Tree” and “The Most Vital
Thing in Life” as well as “The Toys” and “Little Boy Blue”
Chapter 16:
Complete the Questions for “Home Burial” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
11/17
Read “Writing About Poetry”
Complete Poetry Interpretation Template for your assigned poem by ______________.
Write your explication or analysis for your assigned poem by ___________________.