103 Reading Literature: The “Body Electric”
WEEK 1 POETRY
Tuesday, 2/12 — Introductions
- Marianne Moore: Poetry (1919 version)
- Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro
- Walt Whitman: I Sing the Body Electric
Thursday, 2/14 — Diction / Syntax
- Poetic Syntax (Norton)
- Seamus Heaney: Digging
- Wallace Stevens: Of Mere Being
- Elizabeth Bishop: The Filling-Station / Casabianca
- Eileen Myles: for you
- Lorine Niedecker: sel.
- Jean Valentine: God of rooms
- Natalie Diaz: Skin-Light
- James Wright: A Blessing / Lying in a Hammock
- Langston Hughes: Po’ Boy Blues
- Muriel Rukeyser: Night Feeding
- Robert Hass: Meditation at Lagunitas
- Danez Smith: a note on the body / alternate names for black boys
- DUE: OED Exercise
WEEK 2 POETRY
Tuesday, 2/19 — Early English Sonnets
- Versification (Norton)
- Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt (compare Petrarch sonnet 190)
- Edward Spenser: Amoretti 67, 30
- Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophil and Stella 71
- Shakespeare: 116/129/55
- Lady Mary Wroth, from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 17
- George Herbert: Love (II)
- John Donne: Batter my heart, three-person’d God
- William Wordsworth: Composed upon Westminster Bridge
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How do I love Thee?
- John Keats: I cry your mercy-pity-love! –aye, love!
- DUE: Reading Response: Poem Exercises
Thursday, 2/2 — Modern Sonnets
- William Butler Yeats: Leda and the Swan
- Edna St. Vincent Millay: I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed / What lips my lips have kissed
- Adrienne Rich: sel. Twenty-One Love Poems
- Gwendolyn Brooks: the rites for Cousin Vit
- Kim Addonizio: First Poem For You (compare Shakespeare sonnet 55)
- Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays
- Claude McKay: America
- Molly Peacock: The Lull
- Danez Smith: The 17 Year-Old & the Gay Bar / Crown
- DUE: Write a Sonnet / Essay 1 Intro
WEEK 3 POETRY
Monday, 2/25
- DUE: Essay 1, draft 1
Tuesday, 2/26 — Scansion: Meter and Rhythm
- Versification (Norton)
- Ben Jonson: Song: To Celia
- William Blake: London
- Claude McKay: Harlem Shadows / The Tropics in New York
- Robert Frost: To Earthward
- William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Love’s Philosophy
- WH Auden: As I Walked Out One Evening
- DUE: Reading Response / Peer Review Form
Thursday, 2/28 — Forms: Villanelle, Sestina, Ghazal, Ballad, Pantoum
- Kim Addonizio: Sestina of the Alcoholic Daughter
- Elizabeth Bishop: Sestina / One Art (and drafts)
- Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Great Night
- Theodore Roethke: I Knew A Woman / The Waking
- Patricia Smith: Hip-Hop Ghazal
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Love
- John Keats: La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
- — Place
- Frank O’Hara: The Day Lady Died
- Robert Hass: Tahoe in August / On Squaw Peak
- James Merrill: An Urban Convalescence
- AR Ammons: Corson’s Inlet
- Derek Walcott: In the Village
- DUE: Write a form poem
WEEK 4 POETRY
Tuesday, 3/5 — Image, Metaphor, Conceit
- Wolosky Chapter
- John Donne: The Flea / To His Mistress Going to Bed
- Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
- Wallace Stevens: Anecdote of the Jar
- Robert Lowell: Skunk Hour
- Sylvia Plath: Tulips
- Li Young Lee: Persimmons
- Natalie Diaz: My Brother My Wound
- Seamus Heaney: Postscript
- Robert Hass: A Story about the Body
- Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck
- Max Ritvko: Poem to My Litter
- Elizabeth Bishop: The Fish
- Galway Kinnell: The Bear
- Robin Coste Lewis: Summer
- DUE: Reading Response / Convert 1 of your form poems into free-verse / In-Class Group Presentations
Thursday, 3/7 — Voice, Tone, Persona
- George Herbert: Love (III)
- Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
- Elizabeth Bishop: In the Waiting Room
- Emily Dickinson: After great pain, a formal feeling comes
- Marianne Moore: Black Earth
- Sylvia Plath: Lady Lazarus
- William Carlos Williams: Danse Russe / Portrait of a Lady
- Ocean Vuong: Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong
- Ross Gay: Love, I’m Done With You
- Richard Siken: Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out
- Marie Howe: What the Living Do
- Allen Ginsburg: A Supermarket in California
- Kenneth Koch: In Love with You
- Jericho Brown: Another Elegy
- Morgan Parker: If You Are Over Staying Woke
- DUE: Memorization of 1 Poem / Essay 2 Intro, TWO COPIES / Return Peer Essays with Peer Review Forms / In-Class Group Presentations
WEEK 5 DRAMA / FILM
Tuesday, 3/12 —
- William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
- DUE: Reading Response
Thursday, 3/14 —
- William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
WEEK 6 DRAMA
Monday, 3/18
- DUE: Essay 2, draft 1 by 12pm in box outside my office (email peer reviewer)
Tuesday, 3/19
- William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night continued
- FILM: Billy Wilder: Some Like It Hot
- DUE: Film Response
- (In Class: sel. Twelfth Night production, Globe Theatre)
Thursday, 3/21
- Paula Vogel: Baltimore Waltz
- DUE: Reading Response
SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WEEK 7 NOVEL
Tuesday, 4/2 —
- Toni Morrison: Sula
- DUE: Reading Response
Thursday, 4/4 —
- Toni Morrison: Sula
*MANDATORY ATTENDANCE Paula Vogel’s Baltimore Waltz, April 4-6 CFA
WEEK 8 NOVEL
Tuesday, 4/9
- Toni Morrison: Sula
- DUE: Peer Review Form / Read Peer Essay handout for workshop
Thursday, 4/11
- Toni Morrison: Sula (critical essays)
- DUE: Revision Essay 2
WEEK 9 NOVEL
Monday, 4/15
- Essay 3 Question
Tuesday, 4/16
- Toni Morrison: Sula
- DUE: Group Presentations
Thursday, 4/18
- Toni Morrison: Sula
- DUE: Group Presentations
WEEK 10 — NOVEL
Tuesday, 4/23 —
- Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (“The Window” 3-124)
Thursday, 4/25 —
- Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (finish)
WEEK 11
Monday, 4/29
- DUE: Essay 3
Tuesday, 4/30 — NOVEL
- Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Thursday, 5/2 — FICTION (STORIES)
- Flannery O’Connor: Good Country People
- Judy Budnitz: Dog Days
WEEK 12
Tuesday, 5/7 — NONFICTION
- Jo Ann Beard: The Fourth State of Matter
Thursday, 5/9 — NONFICTION / Conclusions
- Cheryl Strayed: The Love of My Life
- DUE: Essay 4 / Final Self-Reflection
ALL FINAL WORK MAY BE EXTENDED TO TUESDAY, MAY 14 BY NOON.