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Lecture 1 Poetry of Place |
The students read “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W. B. Yeats and will write a poem of place. |
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Lecture 2 Images |
The students write a poem in class and at home taking one of the ideas: Addonizio, pp. 86-93. Read a poem, “After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost. At home the students write an autobiographical poem about how he or she came into being: that is, about one’s parents. |
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Lecture 3 Repetition and Rhythm |
Read a poem, “Long-Legged Fly” by W. B. Yeats and other poems by Williams, Stevens, Pounds. |
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Lecture 4 Simile and Metaphor |
See Addonizio, pp. 94-103. Read poems by “The Sick Rose” and “The Fly” by Blake, “Music, when soft voices die” by Shelley, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by Keats, and “No Second Troy” by Yeats. |
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Lecture 5 Lines |
A poem tends to be characterized by the lengths of the lines in a poem. Two poets from the US are so different: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Read poems by Williams, also. |
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Lecture 6 Lines 2 |
Poems by the four poets, the greatest in Germany, the US, Ireland and Korea: Goethe, Stevens, Yeats, Kim Sowol. |
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Lecture 7 Automatic Writing of Poetry |
Read poetry of Kim Chunsoo, Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso, Yeats: “The Cap and Bells (Yeats),” “Choyongdanjang (Kim),” “Cubist” poems (Stein) |
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Lecture 8 Death and Elegy 1 |
Read poems by Thomas Gray and Young Suck Rhee:
Get one of the ideas in Addonizio, pp. 39-45. |
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Lecture 9 Death and Elegy 2 |
Read poems by P. B. Shelley and John Keats: “Adonais” |
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Lecture 10 Shelley’s “Adonais” on the death of John Keats and Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” |
“Adonais” and students’s poems on the Sewol tragedy |
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Lecture 11 The Shadow: Yeats’s Poem, “Leda and the Swan” |
Leda, swan, shadow, light, dark |
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Lecture 12 Writing and Knowing
Alice Fulton and Yeats |
science, mythology, metaphor, knowledge |
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