English Hours: TWR 1:30-2:30. Room: 128 Chiles Hall Phone: MODERN POETRY Spring 2010

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1 Professor Ford Office: 218 Alder Bldg. English Hours: TWR 1:30-2:30 English and by appointment Room: 128 Chiles Hall Phone: TR 12:00-1:30 MODERN POETRY Spring 2010 TEXTS Ramazani et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, third edition, Vol 1: Modern Poetry (at UO Duck Store Bookstore) Assignments and Readings on Blackboard ( ) ATTENDANCE I expect punctual, regular attendance from every student serious about succeeding in this course. Plan to arrive on time and remain for the full class period. If illness or emergency affects your attendance, let me know in advance of late arrivals, early departures, or missed classes. BLACKBOARD Blackboard is an electronic site for our course that allows us to communicate via and access course materials. Our English 475/575 site is organized in the following way: Course Information Course Documents Course Policies Syllabus Readings: Extra readings not in the Norton 475 Assignments: Recitation instructions, overview of four writing assignments, instructions for each writing assignment, sample WR#1 575 Assignments: Recitation instructions, instructions for WR#1, sample WR#1, sample abstract, sample annotated bibliography Writing Guidelines: Editorial abbreviations and writing tips, Format Instructions for Essays Prosody Guides: Prosody definitions and examples for Speakers, Sounds, Figurative Language, Poetic Forms, and Meter READINGS: You will note that on the Course Syllabus, every day the class meets is identified, with every reading you are responsible for listed. Bring your Norton anthology to every class meeting, and bring any readings from Blackboard ( ) printed out single sided. ASSIGNMENTS: This course offers a range of assignments, giving you a variety of opportunities to succeed and keeping your final grade from being dependent on a single skill or performance. I am happy to English 475/575 Syllabus and Course Information 1

2 help you in advance of the due date on any of the assignments. Writing Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the due dates, which are on your Syllabus. Keep a copy for yourself in case the original is lost. Please review the University policy regarding academic dishonesty (in the Schedule of Classes), which will be strictly enforced in this class. If you are caught plagiarizing or cheating, you will fail the entire course (not just the assignment). All written work must be prepared according to the Format Instructions for Essays on Blackboard ( ) and will be graded for quality and accuracy of writing as well as ideas and arguments, so be sure to get help on writing and essay form in plenty of time if you need it. Writing Assignments: The undergraduate writing assignments involve a mechanical exercise and short essays. Instructions for assignments appear on Blackboard ( ). We will discuss assignments in detail in class, and you are welcome to discuss them further with me in office hours. Graduate writing will include a mechanical exercise and staged assignments for a research paper. Examinations: Undergraduates will have two in-class examinations, a midterm and a final, to test reading comprehension, poetics terminology, and the information and ideas discussed in class. Sample examination questions appear on Blackboard ( ). There are no make ups for exams; our final exam is scheduled by the University for Monday, June 7, from 8:00-10:00 a.m. Recitations: Each of you will recite (not memorize) three poems from our readings, in class or in office hours. Recitations of a particular poem must occur before or during the week the poem is assigned on the Syllabus; one recitation per student per week. You are encouraged to get help on recitations before presenting them for a grade. See Preparing Recitations on Blackboard ( ). GRADING: Undergraduates Recitations 10% Writing Assignment #1 10% Writing Assignment #2 10% Writing Assignment #3 10% Writing Assignment #4 20% Midterm Examination 20% Final Examination 20% Graduates Writing Assignment #1 10% Abstract 5% Annotated Bibliography 15% Seminar Paper Draft 10% Seminar Paper 60% Recitations No late assignments or recitations will be accepted (unless you ve made arrangements with me well in advance of the due date), and, again, there are no make-up times for exams. English 475/575 Syllabus and Course Information 2

3 Incompletes will be given for documented medical emergencies only. DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS If you have a documented disability and anticipate needing accommodations in this course, please make arrangements to meet with me soon and request that the Counselor for Students with Disabilities send a letter explaining what accommodations you may need in this course. INCLEMENT WEATHER If inclement weather makes traveling to campus difficult, I will notify you by and/or voice mail about whether we are holding class. If the weather is bad, check your for a message from me, and check my voice mail ( ) if there are electrical outages around town that might prevent my ing you. Whether or not I decide to hold class, you should use your own judgment about the safety of traveling to campus. English 475/575 Syllabus and Course Information 3

4 English 475/575 Spring 2010 COURSE SYLLABUS Readings are in the Norton anthology unless otherwise noted. Date Reading Assignment Due MODERNISM Week 1 T 3/30 Course Introduction; Modernity, modernism, modern poetry R 4/1 Yeats: poems (90-118), Symbolism (877-83) Week 2 T 4/6 Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium (123-24), Byzantium (129-30); Crazy Jane (130), Gyres (134), Lapis Lazuli (135-36) R 4/8 Yeats: Under Ben Bulben (138-40), Circus Animals Desertion (142-43), Politics (143), Introduction (884-89) 475/575 Rec#1 by today THE AVANT GARDE Week 3 T 4/13 Lowell: poems ( ), Preface (926-27); Pound: Metro (351), Retrospect (929-38); HD: poems (393-97); Williams: Great Figure (291), Wheelbarrow (294), Just to Say (295); Blast (895-21) R 4/15 Stein: poems (185-97), Interview (987-93); Loy: poems (269-82), Feminist Manifesto (922-25) 475 WR#1 due Week 4 T 4/20 R 4/22 WORLD WAR I Owen: poems (523-35), Preface (928); Sassoon: poems (387-92); Rosenberg: poems (504-09); Thomas: poems (230-34) 475 Midterm Exam 575 Abstract due Week 5 T 4/27 Eliot: The Waste Land, I, II, III (472-83) R 4/29 Eliot: The Waste Land, IV, V (483-87), Tradition and the Individual Talent (941-47); Cope, Waste Land Limericks ( ) 475 WR#2 due English 475/575 Syllabus and Course Information 4

5 Readings are in the Norton anthology unless otherwise noted. Date Reading Assignment Due Week 6 T 5/4 R 5/6 Week 7 T 5/11 R 5/13 Williams: poems ( ), Prologue (954-59) Millay, An Ancient Gesture ( ); HD, Helen (398), At Ithaca ( ); Parker, Penelope ( ) Pound: Cantos: I (366-70), IX, XIII ( ), XIV (378), XLV (378-80) Pound: Cantos: LXXXI (380-84), CXV ( ), CXVI, (385-86), from Notes for CXVII ( ), CXX (387), Fragment (1966) ( ) 475/575 Rec#2 by today 475 WR#3 due Week 8 T 5/18 R 5/20 THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE McKay: poems ( ); Cullen: poems (726-31), Foreword to Caroling Dusk ( ) Hughes: poems ( ), Negro Artist (964-67); Brown: poems (669-83) 575 Bibliography due Week 9 T 5/25 Stevens: poems (235-54) R 5/27 Stevens: poems (254-56); Noble Rider (976-83) F 5/28 475/575 R#3 by today 575 Paper Draft due Week 10 T 6/1 R 6/3 Auden: poems (783-95), Beaux Arts (797) Auden: Yeats ( ), A Lullaby (815-16), Writing ( ) 475 WR#4 due Finals Week M 6/7 10:00-12: Final Examination 575 Final Paper due English 475/575 Syllabus and Course Information 5