Is Studying Poetry Useless?
Robert Harris Is Studying Poetry Useless?

Week 1: Registration & Orientation

Course Description:
Version Date: March 26, 2013

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:

Basic guidlines (Diction & Figures of Speech)
Poems: Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Please print pages 1&2 and bring to class
T.S. Eliot's: Macavity the Cat

• Figurative language tutorial.
• Figurative language tutorial and quiz
  Figures Of Speech Tutorial from giannaa

• Top Twenty figures of speech:
  

  The Top 20 Figures.docx
  

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Glossary with pronunciation of figures of speech

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  Figures of speech in the holy qoran.doc
  

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• Literary techniques tutorial.

Week 3, 4 & 5

Optional Research Material:

British Literature from Origins to the Age of Reason

history of british literature from origins to the age of reason.pdf

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The Age of Reason Study Notes

The Age of Reason.docx

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The Age of ReasonThe Age of Reason

Age of Reason Lecture

Age Reason2

Johnny Englishhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JSg2tgnvtgY

The Truth about Troy (historical documentary

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The Epic Tradition: The Illiad by Homer

Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

• The Illiad by Homer translated by Alexander Pope

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  Rape of the Lock.docx
  

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  and "Rape of the Lock" study guide
  

  Rape of the Lock study guide.docx
  

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• Plot details in the poem
  

  Rape-location-incidents.docx
  

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

figures of speech pop quiz.doc

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Week6: Midterm (Part I)

midterm-grades-published.docx

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Week 9

Metaphysical Poetry

Monday 4/11/2013

Poetic Movements.pptx

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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
  

  Death be not proud notes.docx
  

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• The Good Morrow
  

  THE GOOD Morrow-wikispaces.docx
  

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• To His Coy Mistress and The Flea
  

  To his Coy Mistress.docx
  

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Week 10:

The Romantics

• William Blake's "The Sick Rose.

Study Notes

• THe Daffodils
  

  The daffodils notes.docx
  

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• Coleridge's "The Ancient Mariner:" Samuel Taylor Coleridge.docxwatch video here

• How does learning this about Langston Hughes, change your perception of his poems Dreams & Dreams Defferred?
  

  Langston Hughes was an.docx
  

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Final Revision:

poetry final notes.docx

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