English 222
Schedule
Fall, 2015
Tentative Overview
Weeks 1-4
Exploring
the Ecosystem
(Where are we?
What kind of creatures live here?)
- The Moaner (Personal Mode)
- The Mad Seer (Visionary Mode)
- The Maker (Formalist Mode)
- The Bard (Spoken-Word or Performed
Mode)
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Weeks 4-6
Form: The Craft
and Music of Poems
- Lineation (metrical and free
verse)
- Sound (all forms of
"rhyme" as Robert Pinsky uses the
word)
- Verse Forms (sonnet, sestina,
villanelle, blank verse, heroic couplet, etc.)
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Weeks 6-7
Form: A Sampling of Elements
& Devices
- Image
- Metaphor
- Lyrical Leap
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Week 8-10
Bringing It All
Together: The Poetry of _______
Applying everything you've learned to a collection
of poems.
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Week 11
Comprehensive Take-Home Exam
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Week 12-14
Writing About
Poems
The latter
part of the term will focus primarily on writing your own literary
analysis, and performing your own spoken-word poem.
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Week 15
Performing Poems
Everyone will do a
slam-style poetry performance in the final week of the semester.
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After each date
below you'll find a reading and possibly a writing assignment due for that
day. You may also see a summary of tentative
class activities. If you miss a class, please check this schedule, read
through any new Power Points in Blackboard, and contact a couple classmates
for full notes and instructions. Then see me if you have specific, informed
questions. (You're expected to be prepared for each class meeting,
whether you missed the previous one or not.) You may contact me by
email, but please clearly identify yourself, and the course and assignment in
question: Cindy
Nichols.
Note: this schedule
is flexible. You will need to check it
regularly for updates and changes. Details are added throughout as we
progress through the term.
Tues. Aug. 25
Course introduction. Look over syllabus. Materials and strategies. Encounters and ecologies of the
poetic kind.
Thurs. Aug. 27
Before Class
Print out as hardcopy or bookmark on your laptop:
Hang on your refrigerator or tape to the lid of your laptop:
“Meeting, Greeting, and Getting to Know a Poem.” You can find this
handout at the top of our Bb menu.
In Class
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