College English 106
Poetry Syllabus
Last One….YAY!!!
Monday, May 5
Read “Piano,” “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” and “Sir Patrick Spence”
Answer the questions for “Sir Patrick Spence” and then read the poem “Ask Me” and write
a paraphrase. (Don’t read the example paraphrase below!)
HW: Read background on tone (438) and the following poems: “My Papa’s Waltz,” “For a
Lady I Know,” “The Author to Her Book,” “I like to see it lap the Miles,” “To the Desert,”
“For My Daughter,” “White Lies,” “Monologue of an Onion,” “I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud,” “Her Kind,” “Oh No,” “The Unknown Citizen,” “Second Fig,” “The Workbox,”
“The Chimney Sweeper,” and “At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border”
for Wednesday. You will be given an assignment for these poems tomorrow.
Tuesday, May 6
Poetry notes
Assign poems
HW: Work with assigned poems. Be ready for discussion tomorrow. All will need to take
part in it!
Wednesday, May 7
Discuss assigned poems
HW: Work on poem. Poetry quiz on Monday, May 12.
Thursday, May 8
Discuss poems
HW: Work on paper. Poetry quiz will be on Monday, May 12.
Friday, May 9
Finish poems if needed.
Assign imagery assignment
HW: Work on imagery assignment. Study poetry terms for quiz.
Monday, May 12
Poetry Quiz
Work on Imagery Assignment
HW: Pick poems for imagery assignment. (first come, first serve!) Work on paper. Read
pages 489-490, “London,” “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock,” “Southeast Corner,” “next to
of course god America I,” “Fire and Ice,” “Final Love Note,” “Tears, Idle Tears,” “Love
Calls Us to the Things of This World.”
Tuesday, May 13
Discuss poems
Imagery Assignments begin Thursday!
HW: Work on imagery assignment.
Wednesday, May 14
Work on imagery assignment
HW: Imagery Assignments begin tomorrow!
Thursday, May 15
Begin presentation of imagery assignment
HW: None
Friday, May 16
Continue presentations
HW: TBA
Monday, May 19
Continue with presentations
HW: TBA
Tuesday, May 20
Information on the final
HW: TBA
Wednesday, May 21
Last Day of class?
HW: Prepare for the final!