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Tentative Course Syllabus

Week

Assignment

Course Introduction . . . Analysis and Explication of Poetry

Thomas Hardy: "Ah, Are you Digging on My Grave?"

Dylan Thomas: "Do not go gentle into that good night"

P. B.Shelley: "Ozymandais"

W.H. Auden: "The Unknown Citizen"

Donne:

"The Indifferent"

"The Flea"

"A Valediction: forbidding mourning"

"The Blossome"

Holy Sonnets IV, VII, X , and XIV

"Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned"

"At the round earth's imagined corners, blow"

"Death be not proud, though some have called thee"

"Batter my heart, three person'd God"

Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"

Shakespeare:

Sonnet XVIII "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

Sonnet CXXX "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"

Beowulf

Marlowe: Dr. Faustus

Reading and Writing about Literature

Literary Research Assignment (Tentative)

Literary Criticism: Overview of Approaches

Literary and Rhetorical Terminology

Analyzing Novels and Short Stories

Writing about Literature (Purdue)

Writing a Paper on Fiction in Nine Steps: (Good advice, short, simple)

Writing about Poetry

MLA Page Format for Word

MLA Style Center

MLA (OWL Prudue)

Correction Symbols

Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice

Othello, The Tempest

Lawrence: "The Ship of Death"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese

Aurora Leigh

Robert Browning: "Meeting at Night," "Parting at Morning"

Test 1

War Poets

Owen: "Dulce et Decorum Est"

Hardy: "The Man He Killed"

Hardy: "San Sebastian"

Yeats: "On being asked for a War Poem"

Yeats: "An Irish Airman forsees his Death"

Sassoon: "Dreamers"

Sassoon: "The Rear-Guard"

Sassoon: "Aftermath"

10 Eliot: The Waste Land

Yeats: "The Second Coming"

Yeats: "Leda and the Swan"

11 Conrad: Heart of Darkness

12 Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

13 Woolf: "The Mark on the Wall"

Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

14 Preparation for Final

15 Final dates and time to be announced