ENG+324+Poetry

Robert Harris [|Is Studying Poetry Useless?] =__ Week 1: __ Registration & Orientation= Version Date: March 26, 2013
 * Is Studying Poetry Useless? **
 * Course Description:**

Academic Year 2011-2012

Academic Year 2012-2013



**Useful Links:**
 * [|How to Analyze a Poem You Have Never Seen Before]


 * [|Denotation and Connotation]

=__ Week 2: __= Please print pages 1&2 and bring to class [|T.S. Eliot's: Macavity the Cat]
 * Basic guidlines (Diction & Figures of Speech)**
 * Poems: __//Macavity: The Mystery Cat//__**
 * **[|Figurative language tutorial].**
 * Figurative language tutorial and quizmedia type="custom" key="22151826"


 * **Top Twenty figures of speech:** [[file:The Top 20 Figures.docx]]

[|Glossary with pronunciation of figures of speech] =__ Week 3, 4 & 5 __= =__ Optional Research Material: __= __ British Literature from Origins to the Age of Reason  __ __ The Age of Reason Study Notes  __ The Age of Reason[|The Age of Reason] = [|Age of Reason Lecture] = = [|Age Reason2] =
 * [[file:Figures of speech in the holy qoran.doc]]
 * [|Literary techniques tutorial].

Johnny Englishmedia type="custom" key="25131042" = The Truth about Troy (historical documentarymedia type="custom" key="22220078" =

=The Epic Tradition: //The Illiad// by Homer= =//Rape of the Lock// by Alexander Pope=


 * The Illiad by Homer translated by Alexander Pope media type="custom" key="20826186"


 * [[file:Rape of the Lock.docx]]** and "Rape of the Lock" study guide [[file:Rape of the Lock study guide.docx]] **
 * Plot details in the poem [[file:Rape-location-incidents.docx]]

Figures of Speech practice: (If you feel you need to practice your figures of Speech)

__ **Week6:** __ **Midterm (Part I)**

__ **Week 9** __ =Metaphysical Poetry=

=**Monday 4/11/2013 **= =Question of the session: The "Neoclassic" is one of the components of The Age of Reason:=
 * 1) **Define Neoclassic**
 * 2) **Bring Examples from Rape of the Lock**
 * 3) **Do you think we will find Neoclassic Elements in the Metaphysical movement?? Yes or No**
 * __** Death be not Proud! by John Donne[[file:Death be not proud notes.docx]] **__


 * **__ The Good Morrow __** [[file:THE GOOD Morrow-wikispaces.docx]]
 * **__To His Coy Mistress and The Flea__ [[file:To his Coy Mistress.docx]]**

=**__ Week 10: __**= Study Notes
 * The Romantics**
 * **[|William Blake's "The Sick Rose.]**
 * __ THe Daffodils[[file:The daffodils notes.docx]] __
 * Coleridge's "The Ancient Mariner:" [[file:drorchida/Samuel Taylor Coleridge.docx|Samuel Taylor Coleridge.docx]][|watch video here]


 * How does learning this about Langston Hughes, change your perception of his poems Dreams & Dreams Defferred? [[file:Langston Hughes was an.docx]]



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