ERCIYES UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF LETTERS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
ELL 360 SELECTIONS FROM ENGLISH POETRY
Spring Semester 2013-2014
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Class Meetings: Thursdays 15:00-17:00
Classroom: (D – 101)
Instructor: Res. Assist. Neşe Şenel
E-mail: nesesenel@erciyes.edu.tr
Phone: Office Hours: Tuesdays 14:00- 16:00
IMPORTANT NOTICE !!!
All information and dates in this
syllabus are subject to change. All
changes will be announced during
class time. It is the student's
responsibility to learn about any
changes and to obtain missed
assignments, handouts, etc.
Note: All students are required to obtain a copy of this Course Syllabus from department’s website or
Faculty’s Copy Shop at the beginning of the semester. All students are responsible for knowing and
following all of the policies and instructions in this syllabus.
Aims
1. to introduce students to a range of poems written from the Modernist Movement onwards,
2. to introduce students to some prominent names in British poetry
3. to arouse an awareness about the poetic implements as visual, olfactory, tactile, auditory etc,.
Learning outcomes
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of a range of poetry written in the aforementioned period;
2. demonstrate an awareness on how the cultural and political factors which condition poetry;
3. demonstrate an awareness about poetic implements.
Brief description
This course examines a range of poems written from the first quarter of the 20th century onwards. On
completion of this course, the students will be able to demonstrate a knowledge on both the poetry of the
20th century and the usage of poetic implements, and some prominent poets as well.
EXAM INFORMATION & POLICIES
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We will have one mid-term, and a final exam for this course. You will be responsible for the areas that
we have covered in class.
Students are expected to attend all scheduled classroom and submit the assignment in time.
If a student is absent and misses an exam, he/she will automatically fail that exam. There are two
exceptions to this rule: (1) If the student makes an arrangement with the instructor before the exam
date to take the exam at a different date or (2) if, after the exam, the student brings the instructor an
officially signed medical excuse form from a state authorized hospital or clinic. In that case, that
official form will be presented to the Executive Committee of the Faculty for their review. If the
Committee accepts the form, the student and the instructor will arrange a date for a make up exam.
If a missed exam is excused, the student will take a make up exam. Note that make up exam questions
will be prepared at the same level as the original exam questions.
PAPER WRITING INFORMATION & POLICIES
All students are required to obtain a copy of the "MLA Departmental Standards" handout and follow the
grammar and citation standards in this handout for every paper written in every course in the department.
COURSE GRADING
Course grades will be based on the following work:
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Class Participation and Attendance
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Midterm
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Final
10%
40%
50%
REQUIRED TEXTS
All reading materials will be provided by the lecturer.
RECOMMENDED READING LIST
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Ellman, Richard, Robert O’Clair (eds.), The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, New York:
W.W.Norton, 1973
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Allison, Alexander W. (et al.), The Norton Anthology of Poetry,
New York: W.W.Norton, 1983
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Hunter, J. Paul (ed.), The Norton Introduction to Poetry, New York: W.W.Norton, 1986
COURSE SCHEDULE
Week I: Introduction to the course.
Week II: Modernist Poetry and Imagism
Week III: T.S Eliot,”Wasteland” (Part One: “The Burial of the Dead”)
Week IV: : D.H. Lawrence ““Piano”, D.H. Lawrence “Bavarian Gentians”, D.H. Lawrence “How
Beastly The Bourgeois”
Week V: ‘William Butler Yeats “Wild Swans at Coole”, “The Lake Isle Of Innisfree”. “The Second
Coming”
Week VI: W. H. Auden “Petition” “On this Island”
Week VII: Elizabeth Bishop “Filling Station”, William Carlos Williams “Spring and All” (American
modernist poetry)
Week VIII: Mid-Term Exam Preparation
Week IX: Mid-Term Exam
Week X: Dylan Thomas “The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower”, “Poem in
October” “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
Week XI: Philip Larkin “Church Going” “High Windows”
Week XII: Ted Hughes “Thrushes”, Ian McMillan “Ted Hughes is Elvis Presley”
Week XIII: Seamus Heaney “Digging” “Blackberry Picking”
Week XIV: Poems selected by the students