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
Norton, 2036-39; Poetry Foundation “Rhyme”
Seamus Heaney, “Digging” (1899)
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” (977)
Claude McKay, “The Tropics in New York”
Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting”
Stephen Fry, pp. 1-11 & Chart on p. 120 (Course Reserves)
Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (478)
John Keats, “Ode to a Grecian Urn” (938); “When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be” (906)
William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18” (259)
Langston Hughes, “Harlem” (1433); “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1430)
Emily Dickinson, (“I like to see it lap the miles”) (1117) (“’Hope’ is the thing with feathers –“) (1114) (“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”) (1115)
Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” (1843)
Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”
Tasks: 1) Subscribe to Poem-a-Day’s digital poetry series;
2) Log on to scholarblogs.emory.edu to be added to the course website
Read & listen to Abel Meeropol’s “Strange Fruit” as sung by Billie Holiday: http://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/158933012/the-strange-story-of-the-man-behind-strange-fruit
Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” (1494)
William Blake, “The Tyger” (743)
Suji Kwock Kim, “Montage with Neon, Bok Choi, Gasoline, Lovers & Strangers”
