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ENGL 102.02 Introduction to Literary Scholarship, Spring 2014
Özlem Görey gorey@boun.edu.tr
Office hours: TF 10:00-10:45, or by appointment, TB 440
Course Objectives:
This course is designed to train students to read, understand and analyze poetry.
Students will not only gain basic knowledge about the figures of speech such as metaphor,
simile, personification, etc., but also learn how to enjoy the poems for their sound and rhythm.
They will discuss how structure, vocabulary, symbolism, tone and mood enhance the themes
and effect of the poems and contribute to their overall meaning. In other words, as students
learn about the formal techniques employed in the poems, they will also have a better
understanding of their content. At the end of the semester, students are expected 1) to perceive
the many dimensions of poetry, including form and content 2) to have introductory
knowledge about well-known poets from around the world 3) to be able to compare and
contrast various poems taught in class.
Course requirements:
You must attend classes. Not to attend will automatically lower your class
participation grade. You must come to class having read the particular material assigned
for each particular day of class, as indicated in the Schedule of Readings. You must be
ready to discuss the material you have read at home with your peers and your instructor in
class, and to contribute to the group activities in which you may also be required to produce a
written text (an answer, a response, an idea, an interpretation, etc.).
You must attend all exams (the midterm exam, the final exam and four announced
quizzes), submit your assignments on time and in proper form, and attend at least % 70 of
classes in order to successfully complete the requirements of the course. There will be no
make-up quizzes.
The students who missed the midterm exam and two of the four announced quizzes
without a legitimate and officially documented excuse, and failed to submit their assignments
on time and in proper form, and attended less than % 70 of classes are not entitled to take the
final exam.
Important Note on Academic Integrity:
The honesty of your work is of utmost importance. When you refer to a critic’s work
or ideas, which you find relevant to your arguments in the assignment, be sure to properly
cite the source. Otherwise, it is considered as academic dishonesty. If you submit work that is
not entirely original to you without properly citing your source—you will receive a zero on
that assignment. You may also be referred to the university’s disciplinary committee.
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Assessment:
Class Participation (Attendance, in-class discussions,
other in-class activities)
% 15
Quizzes
% 15
Assignments
% 20
Midterm Exam
% 20
Final Exam
% 30
Schedule of Readings:
The course reader is available at Yunus Photocopy Center (next to BIM). All the poems and
the readings assigned for class are in the reader. You are expected to check the schedule
regularly and do the readings before coming to class. There might be slight changes in the
schedule in the course of the semester. If that is the case, the students will be notified ahead of
time.
Week 1: Feb 18, 21
Title, Word Choice, Structure, Syntax
Introduction
from “To See the World in a Grain of Sand” by William Blake’
“l(a” by e. e. cummings
“Poem” by William Carlos Williams
“Oh No” by Robert Creely
“my dream about the poet” by Lucille Clifton
“Ask Me” by William Stafford
“At Last We Killed the Roaches” by Lucille Clifton
“Easter Wings” by George Herbert
Week 2: Feb 25, 28
Image, Imagery, Imagists
“The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams
“Between Walls” by William Carlos Williams
“A Farm-Picture” by Walt Whitman
“The piercing chill I feel” by Taniguchi Buson
“Fork” by Charles Simic
“Upon Julia’s Clothes” by Robert Herrick
“In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound
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“The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Heat” by H. D.
Week 3: March 4, 7
Speaker, Voice + Tone
“For a Lady I Know” by Countee Cullen
“Sindhi Woman” by Jon Stallworthy
“Birch Canoe” Carter Revard
“Wedding-Ring” by Denise Levertov
“love poem” by Linda Pastan
“Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde
Week 4: March 11, 14
Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Personification
“Autumn” by T. E. Hulme
“Above the Dock” by T. E. Hulme
“Alba” by Ezra Pound
“Coda” by Ezra Pound
“You fit into me” Margaret Atwood
“The Wind” by James Stephens
“A Simile” by Navarre Scott Momaday
“Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath
“Marks” by Linda Pastan
“On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High”
by D. C. Berry
Week 5: March 18, 21
Lyric Poetry + Ode + Elegy
“Piano” by D. H. Lawrence
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich
“I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
“Ode to Aphrodite” by Sappho
“Ode to my Socks” by Pablo Neruda
“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” by W. H. Auden
“A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London”
by Dylan Thomas
“The Vacuum” by Howard Nemerov
“Final Love Note” by Clare Rossini
Week 6: March 25, 28
Narrative Poetry + Dramatic Poetry
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
“Out, Out” by Robert Frost
“The Ruined Maid” by Thomas Hardy
“Siren” by Louise Gluck
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“Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood
Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning
Week 7: April 1, 4
April 1
Sound and Rhythm
MIDTERM EXAM
“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” William Butler Yeats
“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe
Week 8: April 8, 11
Verse Forms: The Sonnet, Villanelle, Ballad, Triolet
a Shakespearean sonnet
“Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne
“For My Daughter” by Weldon Kees
“Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem” by Helene M. Johnson
“La Belle Dame Sans Mercie” John Keats
“Frankie and Johnny” anonymous
“Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas
“Triolet” by Robert Bridges
Week 9: April 15, 18
Body, Senses, Synesthesia
“Correspondences” by Charles Baudelaire
“Spleen” by Charles Baudelaire
“The Knight” by Adrienne Rich
“I love the world as does any dancer” by H.L. Hix
“Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou
SPRING BREAK
Week 10: Apr.29-May 2
Race and Ethnicity
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
“Dream Variations”
“I, Too, Sing America”
by Langston Hughes
“Who Said It was Simple”
“The Black Unicorn”
“Coal”
by Audre Lorde
“Spontaneous Combustion” by Sherman Alexie
“La Migra” by Pat Mora
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Week 11: May 6, 9
Marriage and Family
“To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan
“The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound
“What’s that smell in the kitchen? By Marge Piercy
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Haydon
“My Father’s Song” by Simon J. Ortiz
“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke
“Daddy” Sylvia Plath
Week 12: May 13, 16
Nature, Animals
“The First Days” by James Wright
“A Finch Sitting Out a Windstorm” by James Wright
“Owls” by Louise Erdrich
“Horse and Tree” by Rita Dove
“In Arizona” Louis Zukofsky
“The Flower-Fed Buffaloes” by Vachel Lindsay
“Mina Bell’s Cows” by Wesley McNair
Poems on cats, dogs, and other domestic or urban animals
Week 13: May 20
Poems in Conversation: reply, imitation, parody
“This is just to say” by William Carlos Williams and
“Variations on William Carlos Williams” by Kenneth Koch
"To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" by Richard Lovelace
“To My Fans, on Becoming a Free Agent” by Gene Fehler