Monday, January 13
In class:
- Introductions:
- Name (pronouns, if you like)
- Concentration
- Favorite poets
- Course Syllabus
- Trip to NYC
- Lecture: Previously, on American Poetry
Assignment:
- Indicate interest in participating in NYC trip by filling in this form.
- Order your textbooks!
- In Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read entry on Romanticism and Modernism
- Read "[I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -]" by Emily Dickinson, and When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman
- Write a paragraph analysis on each assigned poem discussing the characteristics of Romanticism and Modernism in each poem. Post in our ASULearn discussion forum before class on Wednesday.
Wednesday, January 15
In class:
- Lecture and Discussion: Previously, on American Poetry
- NYC Trip
Assignment:
- Register for the trip by filling in this form.
- Order your textbook!
- In Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read entry on Modernism
- Read "A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts" by Ezra Pound
- Read "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, part 1" by Ezra Pound
Friday, January 17
Asynchronous Online Class - no classroom meeting
Online Activity
Write a 250-word analysis of how the principles Ezra Pound discusses in "A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts" are put into practice in "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Part I." How is this poem different in approach from the Romantic poems we've discussed? How do his principles of "Make it new. Make it difficult. Make it international." manifest in this poem? Post in our ASULearn discussion forum before 1:00 pm on Friday. Respond to 2 classmates in our forum before class on Wednesday.Assignment
- In Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read entry on Black Mountain School.
- Read "Projective Verse" by Charles Olson.
- Read introduction to Charles Olson and his poems in the Norton Anthology or here.