BASIC PROGRAM of LIBERAL EDUCATION FOR ADULTS Spring Quarter 2016 Second Year Tutorial COURSE INFORMATION CODE & SECTION LENGTH OF COURSE (March 26 – June 11) BPYR02 – 16S4 10 WEEKS (no class April 23 or 30th) INSTRUCTOR: Claudia Traudt CLASS LOCATION PHONE: 312‐925‐3778 Cobb Hall, Third Floor EMAIL: [email protected]
5811 S. Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 GRAHAM SCHOOL INFORMATION PHONE: 773.702.1722 WEBSITE: https://grahamschool.uchicago.edu COURSE TITLE Year 2 Tutorial – Lyric Poetry COURSE SCHEDULE DAYS: Saturday TIMES: 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM PREREQUISITES Year 1 of the Basic Program ATTENDANCE POLICY Students should register before the course begins. In order to earn a certificate, students should attend at least 6 classes of each regular Basic Program course. COURSE DESCRIPTION Poetry is for humans. We will immerse in and explore splendid selections of poetry in English across many centuries, with special attention to the experience – noting content, forms, nuance, musics, and our own personal registrations and responses. Trusting the works, ourselves and each other. Poems not in Norton Anthology will be distributed. Please read to yourself aloud when preparing (and ENJOYING) the works. You will be intrigued at discoveries. REQUIRED TEXTS 1. Recommended edition: The Norton Anthology of Poetry – shorter 5th ed. (NY: Norton) ISBN 978‐0393979213 WEEKLY READING SCHEDULE WEEK Author Week 1 Anon, Dickinson Date: 3/26 Shakespeare TEXT/READING ASSIGNMENT Class intro: roots, juiciness, precision, empowerment. Pls have read selected Shakespeare Sonnets: #12, 18, 29, 30, 55, 73, 94, 116, 130, 144, 146 and The Tempest’s “Full Fathom Five” THE GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTINUING LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ‐ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Week 2 John Donne Date: 4/2 Sel. John Donne: Song: Go and catch a falling star;the Sun Rising; The Ecstasy; Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed; Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward; Holy Sonnets #10 & #14 Week 3 William Blake Date: 4/9 Robby Burns, Keats Wordsworth, Blake ‐ Songs of Innocence: Introduction; The Lamb; Holy Thirsday; The Divine Image; The Little Black Boy; The Little Boy Lost; The Little Boy Found; Songs of Experience: A Divine Image; Holy Thursday (II); The Clod and the Pebble; The Sick Rose; A Poison Tree; The Tyger; London and “Mock, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau”; Wordsworth – Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey; Ode: Intimations of Immortality; I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud; Burns – To a Mouse; A Red, Red Rose; Keats – On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn Week 4 Robert Browning Date: 4/16 ee cummings Theodore Roethke Browning – My Last Duchess; Roethke – My Papa’s Waltz; I Knew a Woman Lovely in Her Bones; Root Cellar; cummings – in Just‐; since feeling is first, I sing of Olaf glad and big’ somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond Week 5 Date: 5/7 Whitman Melville Whitman – “Song of Myself”: sections 1, 6, 11, 24, 52; I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing; Vigil strange I Kept on the Field One Night; Beat! Beat! Drums! Melville – The Portent; The March into Virginia; Misgivings Week 6 Date: 5/14 Emily Dickinson Gerard Manley Hopkins Dickinson – 216; 241; 341; 357; 435; 449; 528; 536; 640; 712; 986; 1129; 1463; 1540; Manley Hopkins – The Habit of Perfection; God’s Grandeur; Pied Beauty; Binsey Poplars; Felix Randall; As Kingfishers catch Fire, Dragonflies …; No Worst, There is None; I wake and Feel the Fell of Dark; My Own Heart Let Me Have More Pity On Week 7 Date: 5/21 WB Yeats Yeats – The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Easter 1916; The Wild Swans at Coole; The Scholars; The Second Coming; A Prayer for My daughter; Leda and the Swan; Sailing to Byzantium; Among School Children; The Circus Animals Desertion; Under Ben Bulben Week 8 Date: 5/28 Dylan Thomas The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower; The Hunchback in the Park; The Conversation of Prayer; Fern Hill; In My Craft or Sullen Art; Do Not Go gentle into That Good Night – handout) Week 9 Robert Frost Date: 6/4 W. H. Auden Week 10 Student Date: 6/11 Selections Frost – Mending Wall; The Wood‐Pile; The Oven Bird; Birches; Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening; West‐Running Brook; Neither Out Far Nor In Deep; The Gift Outright; The Death of the Hired Man – handout; Auden Musee des Beaux Arts; Law Like Love; In Praise of Limestone; The Shield of Achilles; Lullaby (1928) ‐ handout Student selections – please bring enough xeroxed handouts for the students and me to prepare by the 8th week – May 28th This syllabus is a summary of course objectives and content, not a contract. All information in this syllabus is subject to change, with sufficient advance notice provided by the instructor. CLASSROOM ETIQUETTE As we may be addressing controversial topics in our class discussions, we expect students to be respectful and considerate of others. DISABILITY INFORMATION The Graham School of Professional Studies abides by the Americans with Disabilities Act (see http://www.ada.gov/pubs/adastatute08.htm), with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (see http://www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/sec504.htm), and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (see http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html) and will provide reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities covered by law. If you have a disability for which you may require accommodations, please contact Gregory Moorehead, Director of Student Disability Services, at 773.702.7776 or [email protected] in advance of the first class meeting. THE GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTINUING LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ‐ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO