Poetry
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May 17–Jun tba:
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Students try to distinguish between prose, poetry, “the poetic,” using Forche, “The Colonel,” 986 and the reprinted excerpts from Thomas Mallon, Two Moons, NY: Pantheon, 2000 (in handout). Are these pieces “poems” in any way? Look at such poems as Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” 1016 for a contrast.
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Then contrast open form with closed form of poetry, comparing e.e. cummings, “Buffalo Bill’s,” 978 with Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” 1016.
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Students define rhyme, meter, foot, iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, spondee, alliteration, consonance, assonance, personification, simile, metaphor; 901-924; 925-967.
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Students apply these technical terms and earlier literary approaches as appropriate to:
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Open Form: e.e. cummings, “Buffalo Bill’s,” 978; W.C. Williams, “Dance,” 979; Crane, “Heart,” 981; Gildner, “First Practice,” 985; 991; 995.
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Closed Form: Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” 1016; McKay, “America,” 1048; Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium,” 1094; Browning, “My Last Duchess,” 751; Hamlet, II, ii, 476-533 (1612-1614).
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