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Modern American and British Poetry: Mr. Miller

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Poetry Syllabus

Fall 2006

 

 

 

Sept 6-15: Emily Dickinson, all poems pp 1110-1127

Sept 18-20: Walt Whitman, pp. 1060-1066, 1071-1073 and 1085-1086

Sept 25-29 Christina Rossetti, 1128-1130 and GM Hopkins, 1166-1172

Oct 2-11 WB Yeats pp. 1190-1200

Oct 12-20 Robert Frost, all poems pp. 1227-1245

Oct 23-27 Marianne Moore, all poems pp. 1328-1336

Oct 30-Nov 7 T.S. Eliot, 1340-1360

Nov 8-14 assorted poems

 

Requirements: Everyone is to keep a notebook. You need to keep class notes, nightly analytic journal entries and assorted writings in it. This will not be graded. Each student needs to speak in class every day during the discussions. Three essays will be required.

 

Essay #1 Analysis of one Emily Dickinson poem. Due date- Sept 25/27

Essay #2 Due Oct 23/25

Essay #3 Due Nov 6/8

 

Final Exam 15 November

 

 


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