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This document provides information about an introductory English poetry course titled "Samples of English Poetry" that meets on Tuesdays from 1:30-3 pm. The instructor is Sara Nazockdast and her contact is [email protected]. The course aims to help students develop skills to analyze and understand poetry through close readings, asking analytical questions, and writing interpretive papers. Students will learn about poetic elements and be assigned poems, analyses, and projects. The final goal is for students to find complex pleasure in poetry. Requirements include response papers and a presentation. Policies state that absences may result in failure and participation/on-time work affects grades, while plagiarism

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Finalized List of Selected Poems For The Exam

This document provides information about an introductory English poetry course titled "Samples of English Poetry" that meets on Tuesdays from 1:30-3 pm. The instructor is Sara Nazockdast and her contact is [email protected]. The course aims to help students develop skills to analyze and understand poetry through close readings, asking analytical questions, and writing interpretive papers. Students will learn about poetic elements and be assigned poems, analyses, and projects. The final goal is for students to find complex pleasure in poetry. Requirements include response papers and a presentation. Policies state that absences may result in failure and participation/on-time work affects grades, while plagiarism

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Samples of English Poetry

Tuesdays, 1:30-3
Instructor: Sara Nazockdast
[email protected]

Course Description
Samples of English Poetry is an introductory level literature course designed to aid students, who may
not be familiar with English poetry to acquire skills necessary to engage, understand, analyze, and enjoy
poetry. The goals of this course are close reading of poetry, developing the students’ ability to ask
questions that open poems to analysis, and writing interpretive papers. In this course we will tend to
emphasize the various elements of poetry—imagery, figurative language, tone, sound and rhythm, and
learn how to identify and talk about metrical structures, rhyme schemes, and so on. Creative work will
be assigned in the form of poems, written analysis, and reading responses. The students should either
have class presentations or prepare projects instead. By the end of the course, the student will find that
poetry, though often difficult and demanding, can offer intense and complex pleasure, from emotional
and imaginative to intellectual.

Class Requirements

1. Response papers on selected works ( 5 points).

2. One Class presentation (2 points)

Policies

 Absences: If a student has the equivalence of four weeks of unofficial absences in a course in
which he/she is currently enrolled, the instructor may drop the student with a grade of “F.”

 Participation: Students are expected to participate in class discussions and come to class having
completed the assigned readings.

 Late work: Late works will not receive the complete grade.

Please Note:

 Half of your final grade is constituted by class activities, assignments, presentations, and
projects during the semester. Therefore, any lateness or non-submission of the above will
affect your grades. Furthermore, class participation and activities are strongly
recommended.

 Any ethical transgression such as plagiarism in your tasks, projects, and presentations will
result in the loss of the grade.

Materials
Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense, Poetry by Greg Johnson.
The Norton Anthology to Poetry by Margaret Ferguson.
Further sources will be supplemented with handouts.

Course Schedule
Week 1: What is poetry? The Eagle, Winter, The Suicide Note, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day

Week 2: Reading the Poem. The Man He Killed, Introduction to Poetry, Is My Team Plowing.

Week 3: Denotation and Connotation. When my love swears that she is made of truth, Desert Places,
Mirror.

Week 4: Imagery. To Autumn, The Snow Man.

Week 5: Simile, Metaphor, Apostrophe, personification. Harlem, The Author to Her Book.

Week 6: Metonymy, symbol. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, A Noiseless Patient Spider, The Road
Not Taken.

Week 7: Allegory. Because I could not stop for Death, The Pink Dog.

Week 8: Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement. Ozymandias, My Last Duchess.

Week 9: Allusion. Miniver Cheevy, My Son the Man, Siren Song.

Week 10: Voices. Cootchie, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Day, Woman Work.

Week 11: Musical Devices: We Real Cool.

Week 12: Rhythm and Meter. Old Ladies’ Home, Break, break, break.

Week 13: Conclusion: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

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