Amended Course Schedule

Read the following very carefully.

Lit 201 HA Schedule

The class schedule listed below is the amended schedule for the rest of the semester. Note: Due dates for research paper assignments as listed on The Yellow Wallpaper research paper hand out. Also note: The final exam has been canceled. The final research paper will weigh more as a result. Make sure to get started now, and to complete all stages of the research paper requirements in order to receive a good final grade.

Week 9
10/28
*** List of reliable scholarly sources (minimum 4) in MLA format

Week 10
11/4
Elements of Poetry: Images/Sound/Meter
Modern Poetry: Celebration of the So-called Ordinary
Emily Dickinson, I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain,, Much Madness is divinest Sense, I heard a Fly buzz – when I died, Because I could not stop for Death (534-537))
William Carlos Williams, excerpt from Paterson (handout)
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers (handout), Harlem (577)
Pablo Neruda, (handout)
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken (550)
Sylvia Plath, Daddy (632)
Journal question: Read the poems listed above aloud, if possible. Poems are meant to be heard, like music. After, choose several poems you enjoy or are interested in. Your journal should be about your response to the poems and why you feel what you do, as well as what you think the poet is saying/feeling.

Week 11
11/11
Modern Poetry: Social Commentary and the Subversive
Sonia Sanchez (handout)
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask (548)
Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck (624)
Walt Whitman, From Song of Myself (519)
A selection of Nuyorican poets: Miguel Algarin, Maggie Estep and others (handout)
Pablo Neruda, (handout)
Allen Ginsberg., A Supermarket in California (608)
Recording of Ginsberg’s Howl (provided in class)
Journal question: Read the poems listed above aloud, if possible. Poems are meant to be heard, like music. After, choose several poems you enjoy or are interested in. Your journal should be about your response to the poems and why you feel what you do, as well as what you think the poet is saying/feeling.

Week 12
11/18
Modern Poetry: Religion to Surrealism
Gerald Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur (540), Pied Beauty (540), Spring and Fall (541)
Anne Waldman, Make up on Empty Space go to http://www.poetspath.com/AWaldman/Empty_Space.htm
Charles Baudelaire, (handout)
Wallace Steven, The Emperor of Ice Cream, Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock (556-557)
James Tate, The Wheelchair Butterfly (667)
Other poets to be announced.
Assignment: Read the poems listed above aloud, if possible. Poems are meant to be heard, like music. Be prepared to discuss.
***Research paper freewrite due

Week 13
11/25
No class - Thanksgiving

Week 14
12/2
Greek Drama
Sophocles, Antigone (handout)
Reading and writing assignment to be announced.

Week 15
12/9
Antigone continued


Week 16
12/16
Research paper due
Film: Frida