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Lara Karpenko
English 211: Intro Literary Study I - Poetry
TR: 6:00 PM - 7:50 PM
Classroom: Rankin 301
Welcome to English 211. In this class, we will be studying poetry and poetic language. As the class progresses, you will be able to
poetic meaning and how poems make meaning. We will also consider the myriad ways readers have responded to poetry throughout
history.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
If you are struggling with anything, please don’t hesitate to speak to me. Remember, I’m here to help!
Office Hours: Mondays and Thursdays 12:00-1:00 PM; Tuesdays 2:00-4:00 PM and by appointment.
Office Location: MacAllister 311
E-mail: [email protected]
Office Phone Number: 262-524-7257
REQUIRED TEXTS:
1) Jack Myers and Doc. C. Wukasch, Dictionary of Poetic Terms
2) Edward Hirsch and Evan Boland, The Making of a Sonnet
3) All other readings will be distributed in class and via e-mail. Please note that all students must have a working e-mail
account.
General Education Learning Outcomes:
Please note that English 211 counts for credit for Humanities, Gen Ed 1 and is required for “Area 1” of the English Major
This course will help you achieve the following learning outcomes:
1) Understand the methodologies germane to the fine arts, humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences as well as their larger
social context.
2) Develop and defend a position that demonstrates logical reasoning orally or in writing.
To demonstrate their mastery of goals in the course, students will be asked to complete/participate in the following
assignments:
1) Midterm Exam on Poetic Terms and Poetic Language
100 points
2) Final Exam on Passage Identification on Thursday December 13 6:00-9:00 PM
200 points
3) Poetry Memorization and Presentation Assignment with annotated bibliography)
100 points
4) Commonplace Book Assignment (includes analytical essay)
200 points
5) Class Participation and Non-formal writing
100 points
GENERAL EDUCATION ASSESMENT
General Education Learning Outcomes will be assessed according to the following plan:
Understand the methodologies
germane to the fine arts,
humanities, social sciences,
or natural sciences as well as their
larger social context.
Midterm Exam
Final Exam
Poetry Memorization and
Presentation (with annotated
bibliography)
Commonplace Book Assignment
(includes analytical essay)
Class Participation and Non-formal
writing
X
Develop and defend a position
that demonstrates logical
reasoning orally or in writing
X
X
X
X
X
X
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GRADING SCALE
This is a straightforward grading policy. Everything will be assigned a certain number of points and at the end of the semester, I will
divide the number of points possible by the number of points you receive. Grades will be assigned according to the following scale:
100 – 94%
93 – 89%
88 – 84%
83 – 79%
78 – 70%
69 – 60%
59% and below
A
A/B
B
B/C
C
D
F
POLICY STATEMENTS:
Disabilities statement: Students with documented disabilities who may need accommodations, or any student considering obtaining
documentation should make an appointment with Ms. Martha Bledsoe, Director of Services for Students with Disabilities, no later
than the first week of class. She can be reached by calling 262-524-7335 or contacting her via email at [email protected].
Academic Integrity: The Carroll University Academic Integrity Policy is located in your student handbook. a student violates this
policy in any way, the instructor reserves the right to impose a sanction of failure on the assignment/assessment or failure in the
course. If you have questions about appropriate citations, please ask.
Attendance Policy: This course is conducted as a seminar: you are expected to speak, listen and contribute. Therefore, regular
attendance is required. Your participation grade, to some extent depends on regular attendance. If you are absent, be sure to get the
notes from somebody. You are responsible for getting the missed assignments/lecture notes/quickwrites from other students. Please
also note that in order to be counted as present, you need to adhere to reasonable standards of punctuality and decorum.
Modifications to the syllabus: The instructor and the University reserve the right to modify, amend, or change the syllabus (course
requirements, grading policy, etc.) as the curriculum and/or program require(s).
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Course Calendar for 211
Week One
9/6:
Introduction
Week Two:
9/11:
What is poetry/ Poetic terminology
Edgar Masters, “What is Poetry?”
Anna Ribeiro, “Intending to Repeat”
In addition to the two articles which will be e-mailed to you, please read and go over the definitions of the following words
(in Dictionary of Poetic Terms)
Poetic Devices
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Anaphora
Antanaclasis
Antithesis
Apostrophe
Assonance
Blank Verse
Caesura
Consonance
Couplet
Elision
End-Rhyme
Epistrophe
Eye Rhyme (also called “sight rhyme”)
End-Stopped
Enjambment
Feminine Ending/ Masculine Ending
Heroic Coupler
Hyperbole
Imagery
Internal Rhyme
Litotes
Metaphor
Metonomy
Meter (Note: This is VERY important and
we will be spending a considerable amount
of time on this term.)
Off Rhyme (also called “slant rhyme”)
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Paradox
Paralipsis
Parallelism
Personification
Pun
Quatrain
Rhyme
Simile
Stanza
Tautology
Terza Rime
Poetic Forms
Ballad
Dramatic Monologue
Elegy
Free Verse
Ode
Sestina
Sonnet
Villanelle
9/13:
Ballads
Anonymous, “Lord Randall”
Anonymous, “Famous Flower of Serving Men”
Anonymous, “Riddles Wisely Expounded”
Anonymous, "Scarborough Fair”
Anonymous, “False Sir John and May Colvin”
Anonymous, “The Oxford Girl.”
Anonymous, “The Ballad of John Henry”
E.A. Robinson, “Richard Corey”
Bobbie Gentry, “Ode to Billy Joe”
Poison, “Every Rose has Its Thorns”
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Week Three:
9/18:
Villanelles, Sestinas, and Dramatic Monologues
Sestinas:
Edmund Spenser, “Ye wastefull woodes, bear witness of my woe”
Algernon Charles Swinburne's "Sestina".
W. H. Auden, “Paysage Moralise”
Dramatic Monologues:
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
Robert Browning, “Porphyria's Lover,
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
Villanelles:
E.A. Robinson, “The House on the Hill”
Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”
Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle In to that Good Night”
9/20:
Elegies, Odes,
Elegies:
Ben Jonson, “On My First Son.”
John Donne, “To His Mistress Going to Bed”
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
Paula Meehan, “Child Burial”
Odes:
Sappho, “Ode to Aphrodite”
Mistress Pierre de Ronsard, To His Young Mistress”
John Donne, “The Rising Sun"
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Week Four:
Note: Unless otherwise noted, all sonnets appear in The Making of a Sonnet. Please be sure to bring this text to class every day
between 9/25- 10/4.
9/25:
Sonnets
Sir Thomas Wyatt, “The long love that in my thought doth harbor”
George Gascoigne, “That self-same tongue which first did thee entreat”
Anne Locke, “A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner upon the 51 Psalme”
All sonnets by Edmund Spencer from The Making of a Sonnet (i.e. pages 83-85)
Mary Stuart, “Sonnet to Elizabeth” (distributed via e-mail)
Elizabeth Tudor, “The Doubt of Future Foes” (distributed via e-mail)
9/27:
Sonnets
All numbered sonnets by Shakespeare in The Making of a Sonnet (i.e. pages 93-96)
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 98 (distributed via e-mail.)
Week Five:
10/2:
Sonnets
All sonnets by John Donne in The Making of a Sonnet (i.e. pages 103-105)
John Keats, “When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be”
All sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the Making of a Sonnet (i.e. page 154)
George Meredith, “Lucifer in Starlight”
Christina Rossetti, “Remember”
10/4:
Sonnets
Edward Arlington Robinson, “Reuben Bright”
All sonnets by Robert Frost in The Making of a Sonnet, (i.e. pages 189-190)
Rupert Brooke “Sonnet Reversed”
William Carlos Williams, “Sonnet in Search of an Author”
Dorothy Parker, “I Shall Come Back”
Yvor Winters, “To Emily Dickinson”
Gwen Harwood, “In the Park”
Jane Cooper, “After the Bomb Tests”
Michael Palmer, “Pre-Petrarchan Sonnet”
Blaise Cendras, “OpOetic” from Unnatural Sonnets
e.e. cummings, “XVI” from Sonnets—Actualities
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Week Six:
10/9:
Free Verse
Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons, selections.
Allen Ginsburg, “America”
Carolyn Forche, “The Colonel”
POETRY SELECTIONS DUE.
10/11:
MIDTERM
Week Seven:
10/16: FALL BREAK NO CLASS
10/18:
Slam Nation (in-class film.)
Week Eight:
10/22: Commonplace Book discussion
Rough Draft Workshop
10/25:
Commonplace book discussion and demonstration.
Week Nine:
10/30: Rough Draft Workshop II
Student Presentation 1
11/1:
Student Presentations 2 and 3
Week Ten:
11/6:
Student presentations 4 and 5
11/8:
Student Presentation 6 and 7
Rough Drafts due.
Week Eleven:
11/13: Individual Meetings about rough drafts
11/15:
NO CLASS. Professor Karpenko will be leading a seminar at the Lilly Conference on College and
University Teaching.
Week Twelve:
11/20: Individual meeting about rough drafts.
11/22:
THANKSGIVING
Week Thirteen:
11/27: Student presentations 8 and 9.
11/29:
Student Presentation 10 and 11.
Week Fourteen:
12/4:
Student Presentations 12 and 13.
12/6:
Student Presentation 14 and 15.
Week Fifteen
12/11: Class wrap up; common place book discussion