Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
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January 11 |
Introduction |
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January 16 |
Robert Frost, "Mowing," "The Tuft of Flowers," "Mending Wall" |
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January 18 |
Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man," "A Hundred Collars," "Home Burial" |
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January 23 |
Frost, "After Apple-Picking," "The Code," "The Wood-Pile" |
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January 25 |
Langston Hughes, "Afro-American Fragment," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Negro," "Dream Variations," "Life Is Fine"
Presentation sign-up deadline |
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January 30 |
Hughes, "The Weary Blues," "Sylvester's Dying Bed," "Early Evening Quarrel," "Midnight Raffle," "Mama and Daughter"
Bring a working draft of the Poem Analysis to class for peer editing. |
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February 1 |
Hughes, "Ballad of the Girl Whose Name Is Mud," "Silhouette," "Note on Commercial Theater," "Madam and Her Madam," "Madam's Calling Cards" |
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February 6 |
Quiz on Frost and Hughes
Wallace Stevens, "Earthy Anecdote," "Sunday Morning" |
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February 8 |
Stevens, "Six Significant Landscapes," "Anecdote of the Jar," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Poem Analysis due in class |
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February 13 |
Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West," "A Postcard from the Volcano" |
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February 15 |
Stevens, "Study of Two Pears," "A Primitive Like an Orb," "The Rock" |
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February 20 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "In the Waiting Room," "Crusoe in England" |
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February 22 |
Bishop, "Night City," "The Moose," "12 O'Clock News," "Poem" |
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February 27 |
Bishop, "One Art," "The End of March," "Objects & Apparitions," "Five Flights Up" |
Th |
March 1 |
Midterm Examination |
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March 5-9 |
Spring Break |
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March 13 |
Robert Lowell, "Beyond the Alps," "The Banker's Daughter," "Inauguration Day: January 1953" |
Th |
March 15 |
Lowell, "91 Revere Street" |
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March 20 |
Lowell, "My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow," "Commander Lowell," "Father's Bedroom," "Waking in the Blue"
Research Paper proposal deadline |
Th |
March 22 |
Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke," "Skunk Hour" |
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March 27 |
Sylvia Plath, "The Manor Garden," "Two Views of a Cadaver Room," "Sow"
Annotated bibliography due |
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March 29 |
Plath, "The Colossus," "Lorelei," "All the Dead Dears," "The Thin People" |
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April 3 |
Plath, "Mushrooms," "I Want, I Want," "The Disquieting Muses," "The Burnt-out Spa" |
Th |
April 5 |
Quiz on Lowell and Plath
Kay Ryan, "Odd Blocks," "The Edges of Time," "Train-Track Figure," "We're Building the Ship As We Sail It," "Stations" |
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April 10 |
Ryan, "Retroactive," "Shift," "Extraordinary Lengths," "Every Painting by Chagall," "Leaving Spaces"
Peer-edit Research Paper |
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April 12 |
Ryan, "Simply by Growing Larger," "To the Young Anglerfish," "Waste," "It's Always Darkest Just before the Dawn," "The Material" |
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April 17 |
Carol Muske-Dukes, The Invention of Your Face
Research Paper due in class |
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April 19 |
Muske-Dukes, Acceleration |
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April 24 |
Muske-Dukes, Pierce County, Suttee Goddess |
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April 26 |
Muske-Dukes, Scout |
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May 3 |
Final Exam, 10-11:50am |
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