english composition lll

From your textbook,  The Literature Collection: An E-Text :

· From Chapter 13, read: Reading a Poem and Poetry or Verse

· From Chapter 16, read: Saying and Suggesting and Denotation and Connotation

· From Chapter 17, read: Imagery and Thinking About Imagery

Read the Following Poems (Used in Weeks 1 and 2):

· Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper” (p. 239)

· Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (p. 658)

· Brooks, “We Real Cool” (p. 387)

· Browning, “How Do I Love Thee” (p. 662)

· Burns, “Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose” (p. 339)

· Cullen, “For a Lady I Know” (p. 212)

· Cummings, “In Just-“ (p. 458)

· Cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled” (p. 684)

· Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” (p. 593)

· Dickinson, “This is My Letter to the World” (p. 591)

· Donne, “Death Be Not Proud” (p. 689)

· Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask” (p. 574)

· Frost, “Desert Places” (p. 380)

· Frost, “Mending Wall” (p. 704)

· Heaney, “Digging” (p. 715)

· Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” (p. 721)

· Hopkins, “Spring and Fall” (p. 724)

· Hughes, “Theme for English B” (p. 613)

· Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (p. 730)

· Komunyakaa, “Facing It” (p. 521)

· MacLeish, “Ars Poetica” (p. 579)

· Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (p. 749)

· Neruda, “Muchos Somos” (p. 548)

· Owen, “Futility” (p. 768)

· Plath, “Daddy” (p. 770)

· Pound, “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” (p. 778)

· Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” (p. 211)

· Shakespeare, “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” (p. 793)

· Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning” (p. 311)

· Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar” (p. 487)

· Williams, “This is Just to Say” (p. 248)

· Wordsworth, “The World is too much with us” (p. 493)

· Yeats, “The Second Coming” (p. 500)

· Yeats, “When You are Old” (p. 838)

Complete these assignments:

· Discussion Assignment: Imagery in Poetry

· Weekly Writing Assignment: Poetry Analysis Essay – Rough Draft

· Knowledge Check

· Reading and Interpreting Poetry

· Themes

· Writing Essays about Literature

· Avoiding Plagiarism with APA Style Citations

Week 2

Complete the following readings early in the week:

Week 2 online lectures

From your textbook,  The Literature Collection: An E-Text :

· From Chapter 15, read: Words, Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First, Diction, and The Value of a Dictionary

· From Chapter 18, read: Figures of Speech and Metaphor and Simile

· From Chapter 24, read: Symbol, The Meaning of a Symbol,

· Identifying Symbols, and Thinking About Symbols

· From Chapter 13, read: Lyric Poetry, Narrative Poetry, and Dramatic Poetry

· From Chapter 22, read: The Sonnet

· From Chapter 43,read: Writing about a Poem, Read Actively, Thinking About the Poem, Prewriting: Discover your ideas, Write a Rough Draft, and Revise your Draft

Complete these assignments:

· Discussion Assignment: Symbolism and Metaphor

· Weekly Writing Assignment: Poetry Analysis Essay – Final Draft

· Knowledge Check