Wednesday, January 18
In class:- Introductions:
- Name (pronouns, if you like)
- Concentration
- Favorite poets
- Do you write poetry?
- Syllabus discussion and negotiation
- Lecture: Previously, on American Poetry
- Order your textbooks!
- In Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read entries on Romanticism and Modernism
- Read "A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts" by Ezra Pound
- Read "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" by Ezra Pound
- Write a brief analysis of how the principles Ezra Pound discusses in "A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts" are put into practice in "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter." How is this poem different in approach from the Romantic poems we discussed today?
- Post in our ASULearn discussion forum before class on Monday.