Dr. Yoder
English 4150/4250.01     Reading Poetry     Spring 2008
Assignment Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all readings are in the Norton Introduction to Poetry.

Week 1 (Jan. 14-16)
M     Introduction
W     Poetry: Function / Purpose / Assumptions

Week 2 (Jan. 21-23): Form from the Inside
M     Martin Luther King, Jr. Day -- NO CLASS
W     Octavio Paz: "Two Bodies" (available here);
        William Carlos Williams: "The Red Wheelbarrow"
        Psalm 23 (This link will take you to a webpage with many different translations of Psalm 23. Plan to discuss the original King James Version (1611), the New King James Version (1982), and the most recent Jewish Publication Society Translation from The Tanakh (1985).

Week 3 (Jan. 28-30): Oral Reading: Reading Sentences Not Lines: Paraphrase 1
M     Sonnets / Enjambment / Rhyme
W     

Week 4 (Feb. 4-6): Paraphrase 2
M     
W     

Week 5 (Feb. 11-13): Voice: Who Is Speaking?
M     
W     
F     Paper 1: Paraphrase Due by Noon

Week 6 (Feb. 18-20): Form from the Outside: Sonnets / Rhyme / Enjambment
M     
W     

Week 7 (Feb. 25-27): Sonnets 2
M     
W     

Week 8 (Mar. 3-5): Elegy / Voice: John Milton's Lycidas
M     
W     

Week 9 (Mar. 10-12): Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
M     Guest Teacher: Wallace Jackson
W     

Week 10 (Mar. 17-19):
M     
W     Paper 2: Structure Analysis Due

Mar. 24-26: SPRING BREAK

Week 11 (Mar. 31-Apr. 2): Sonic Effects: Meter, Alliteration, etc. 1
M     Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Metrical Feet"
        Alexander Pope: "Sound and Sense"
        Gerard Manley Hopkins: "The Windhover" W     

Week 12 (Apr. 7-9): Sonic Effects: Meter, Alliteration, etc. 2
M     
W     

Week 13 (Apr. 14-16)
M     
W     Paper 3: Sound Analysis Due

Week 14 (Apr. 21-23)
M     
W     

Week 15 (Apr. 28-30)
M     Scavenger Hunt Portfolios Due
W     

Week 16 (May 5): LAST DAY OF CLASS
M     
F May 9     Paper 4: A Reading Due by Noon

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