First Paper Due. Make sure to arrive at the Rose Library on time with your paper in hand. Late papers will be docked points.
In-class assignment on poets’ process & introduction to second paper assignment. Reminder: Food and drink are not permitted on the 10th floor of the library.
Norton: pp. 2042-2044
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 55 and Sonnet 130
Natasha Tretheway, “Native Guard” (Course Reserves)
Medbh McGuckian, “Gigot Sleeves” and short excerpt from Shane Alcobia-Murphy’s Sympathetic Ink on McGuckian’s process (Course Reserves)
Lucille Clifton, “won’t you celebrate with me”
Ted Hughes, “Crow Blacker than Ever”
W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Paper #1 Proposal due via email by the start of class.
Norton: pp. 2039-2041 (“Blank verse” through “Quatrain”)
Robin Lewis Coste, “Plantation” (Course Reserves)
Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art” (1527)
Mark Strand, “The Prediction” (1863)
For Writing Workshop:
Read the following student essay, identifying its potential strengths and weaknesses. Consider the thesis, organization, and structure. Dickinson_EssaySample
Also, refer to Emily Dickinson’s “This World is Not Conclusion” for context.
EVENTS
The Beats Exhibit is opening this week! Please find related events here:
• Poetry reading with Anne Waldman, Beat poet, activist and artist. 7:30-9 p.m., Oxford Road Building Presentation Room (Atlanta campus). Book signing to follow.
Meet on the 10th floor of the Woodruff Library. Take a left out of the elevators and walk down the hall past the glass exhibit cases. I’ll meet you outside the classroom, where I’ll ask you to store your backpacks, purses, and belongings in the cubby room.
No food or drink allowed on the 10th floor. Please bring a cell phone with a camera or another digital camera (or let me know if you don’t have access to a camera, and I’ll make accommodations). I’ll provide pencils and paper.
Quiz on poetic terms
Dana Levin’s essay “Where It Breaks”
Sappho, “The Anactoria Poem”
Wole Soyinka, “Telephone Conversation” (1862)
Emily Leithauser, “Haiku for a Divorce” (Course Reserves)—Prof. Leithauser will be visiting our class to discuss her poem; please come ready with questions.
Introduce first paper assignment
Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1237)
Wole Soyinka, “Telephone Conversation” (1862)
Haunani Kay Trask, “The Broken Gourd” (Course Reserves)
Amiri Baraka, “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note”
Lucille Clifton, “won’t you celebrate with me”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bells”
William Wordsworth, “Daffodils”
Gwendolyn Brooks, “Cynthia in the Snow”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Travel”
Derek Walcott, “The Sea Is History”
Check out http://prosody.lib.virginia.edu for more practice with meter
