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1/13/2004 |
Four levels of poetry; the sensory level
exercise
Assignment:
- Descriptiive poem
- The Image
Reading for next week: Descriptive poems, list poems
- Vintage: "Bight" 22, "At the Fishhouses" 25; "Mule
Team and Poster" 202; "Poem about People," 453, "Nights
of ..." 486;
- Hammer: "in a trunk" 1;"Ohio Fields" 30; "Sparrow"
54
- LG: Firstborn (1st and last poem of each section)
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1/20/2004 |
Four levels of poetry; ideational level (myth)
Assignment: Myth/ persona poems
Reading for next week:
- LG: House on Marshland (all)
- Hammer and Blaze: Aleshire, "Persephone" 9;Colier "Argos"
53; Cooley, "Nocture" 61;Howe, "Reading Ovid," 1600;
Pierce, "Ovidian" 218; Rosen "Cerberus" 239
- Pocket: Tennyson, "Ulysses"; Yeats "Leda"; Wright,
"Saint Judas"; Sexton, "Cinderella"; Chappell; Narcissus
and Echo"; Atwood "Siren's song"
- Look up the Myths:
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1/27/2004 |
Four levels of poetry; typographical level (the line); sonic level
Assignment: Syllabics and stress
Reading
- Beowulf, Original
(just look at it) and an excerpt
from Heaney's verse transation
- Pocket Anthology: Wilbur, "Junk" 287, "The Writer"
290; Moore, "The Fish" 234; Thomas, "Fern Hill"
275; Plath "Metaphors" 343
- LG: Triumph of Achilles
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2/3/2004 |
Four levels of poetry: ideational level (voice)
Directives, persona poems
Poems for Workshoppping
Reading
- Online: Homer, Odyssey
Excerpt; Frost, Directive;
Ash, Road to Ogalma;
Wilbur, Advice
to a Prophet; Merwin, For
A Comng Extinction; Denis Johnson, The
White Fires of Venus; Hardy, Channel
Firing; Donne, Holy
Sonnet
- Hammer: Collier, "Brave Sparrow" 54 (again); Dunn "A
Postmotem guide" 80; Gibbons "Envoi" 121; Sleigh "Prayer"
263; Ryan, "Reminder" 244
- Pocket: Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home; 381
- LG: Triumph of Achilles
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2/10/2004 |
Four levels of poetry: sonic level
Workshopping:
Review from two weeks ago, which we didn't talk about
New: Sestinas
Online
Gwynn:
- Alvarez, "Bilingual Sestina" 418
- Ashberry, "Farm Implements..." 314
- Mayers, Florence "All-American Sestina" 367
Required Assignment: sestinas
Suggestions for finding end-words
- Random words from dictionary
- Finding six words from the same context (e.g. X files, video games,
cartoons, painting, opera, menus, bible, advertising, car repair manual,
cookbook, food group, etc.)
- six cognates (for example, the words helmet, hell, hall, hull,
hole, cover, colon, color, conceal, apocalypse, eucalyptus, holster,
occult, cellar, housing, and supercilious all come from
the same Indo-European root--see American
Heritage Dictionary for etymologies)
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2/16/2004 |
LAST DAY TO DROP GRAD CLASS WITH A W
Four levels of poetry: Sonic level (meter)
- Shannon Harry (not sure which one..)
- Ben Keever
- (two versions yee-haw!)
Assignment: iambic pentameter |
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2/24/2004 |
Workshopping for next week
Ideational level: Other arts
Assignment: Ekphrasis
Reading for next week:
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2/24/2004 |
Procedural poems |
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3/2/2004 |
The research paper
Sonic level:
kinds of rhyme
Assignment: ghazal
Reading for next week (these poems are either ghazals or they use rhyme
in ways that disguise it or transform it)
- Hammer and Blaze: Gibbons, Ghazal 118; Leader, Impetus 179;Ryan Wings
of the Morning 247
- Pocket anthology: Auden, Musee des beaux arts (again) 262 and Unknown
Citizen 263; Hecht, More Light 298; Kumin, "Noted in the NY Times"
306; Chappell "Narcissus and Echo" 349
- Online: Clark, Riverside
Ghazal; Herbert, Man
and The Collar; Owen,
Futility;
Wilbur, Advice
to a prophet (again) and Cottage
Street 1953.
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3/9/2004 |
SPRING HOLIDAY--NO CLASS |
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3/16/2004 |
Typographical level: Stanzas, strophes, verse paragraphs
Assignment: borrowed forms
Reading: (review last week's--we'll discuss some examples of borrowed
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3/23/2004 |
Sonic level: meter
Ideational level: Procedural poems
Poems for workshopping today
Reading for next week:
Sapphics
Procedural poems:
- Language poetry and "method" poetry
- Found Poetry
- Activities:
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3/30/2004 |
Ideational level: elegies and animals
Ideational level: Nature writing
Workshopping
Readings for Next Week
- Pocket Anthology: Merwin, For the anniversary 316; Smart, Jubilato
Agno 105; Dickey, The Heaven of Animals 295; Gioia, Planting...p.406;
James Wright, A Blessing 319;
- Hammer and Blaze: Adcock, Renovated Zoo 5; Dunn, Postmortem Guide
and Burying the Cat (80-81); Frost, St. Louis Zoo 111; Kelly Elegy 173;
- Online: Levine, Animals
are passing from our lives; Hardy, Last
Words to a Dumb Friend and At
Castle Boterel; Bishop, North
Haven, Millay from To
Elinor Wylie; Roethke, Elegy
for Jane; Justice, Psalm
& Lament
- A small selection of Nature Poems: Hopkins, Windhover;
Snyder, Above
Pate Valley; Wendell Berry ( an interview);
Mary Oliver
Wild Geese; etc.
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4/8/2004 |
Extra All-workshop Class (Thursday 4-4:30
PM at Barleys)
- Cande's poem
- Christa's poem
- Three by Solito (one, two,
and three)
- David Cathcart's poem
- Shannon's poem (and here's her pentameter),
two and three
- We also have Ben's poem in hardcopy, and we may have poems by
Amber and / or Nicole (who, I understand, are not actually enrolled)
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4/13/2004 |
Sonic level: pantoums and villanelles
- Pantoums (a definition)
- Funkhouser, First
Pantoum of Summer
- Cramer, Everyone
who Left Us
- Kizer, Parent's
Pantoum
- Fagan, Saloon Pantoum
- Barber, The
Vigil
- Justice, Pantoum
of the Great Depression
- Stewart, Punk
Pantoum (note the white text--copy and paste into Word, then
print it)
- Reiter, Pantoum
- Feinfeld, The
Pantoum (about pantoums...)
- Verlaine, Pantoum
Negligé (for those who can read French)
- Villanelle (a
definition with examples including Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle...
- Another definition with most
of the classic examples including Bishop, Art of Losing; Roethke,
I Wake to Sleep
- E.A. Robinson, The
House on the Hill
- Wilde, Theocritus:
A Villanelle
- Auden, Villannelle
(note white text)
- Justice, Villanelle
at Sundown
- Disch, Rapist's
Villanelle
- Williams, Villanelle
for the Cows
- Kumin, The
Nuns of Childhood
- Cramer, Villanelle
After Burial and Entropic
Villanelle
- a
list of other villanelles by famous authors (not all links guaranteed
to work)
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4/20/2004 |
sonic level: sonnets, fourteeners, and triolets
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4/27/2004 |
Ideational level: ars poetica; literature and language |
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5/4/2004 |
Satires
Portfolio/ party |
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