Swarthmore College / English 71B: The Lyric Poem in English.Fall 2013, Monday, 1:15 4pm, Kohlberg 202.Professor Peter Schmidt.office hours: LPAC 206, MW 10:25 - 12 noon; and by appointment.office phone and voicemail: 8156.Course Description
ADDITIONAL: Poems for Poetry Responses.For the Sleepwalkers.Edward Hirsch.Tonight I want to say something wonderful.for the sleepwalkers who have so much faith.in their legs, so much faith in the invisible.arrow carved into the carpet, the worn path.that leads to the stairs instead of the window
Reading List for ENGL 520: 17th-Century English Literature (exclusive of Milton).Readings are from The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse & Prose unless otherwise indicated. During my sabbatical, I read and prepared teaching notes on all
Humanities 9 Winter Poetry project.1. Find 20 examples of winter poems or Christmas carols. (10 of each).2. Create poetry flashcards for definitions and examples of poetic terms.3. Answer the poem questions for 2 of the winter poems you found.4. Write 10 different types of winter poems
12 AP Literature & Composition Poetry Project in 4 parts.Overall directions: This is a four part project designed to facilitate poetry appreciation during National Poetry Month for you and others. You will take your class to a preselected spot on
Walt Whitman: Words for America.Author: Barbara Kerley.Illustrator: Brian Selznick.Reading Level: Grades 4-8.This picture-book biography focuses on the famous American poet, Walt Whitman (1819-1892), who lived in Long Island and Brooklyn, New York. At
Characteristics of Anglo Saxon Poetry.An epic is a long narrative poem that tells the great deeds of a larger than life hero, who embodies the values of a particular culture.Characteristics of an epic.deals with a significant event for the culture or mankind in general
Revised list of Emily Dickinson poems in Swedish printed in books, newspapers and reviews in Sweden and Finland.The first exhaustive and reliable list of ED poems in Swedish are to be found.In USA-poesi: en bibliografi över tolkningar till svenska 1853-1985, samt
A Pinch of Salt.By Robert Graves.When a dream is born in you.With a sudden clamorous pain.When you know the dream is true.And lovely, with no flaw nor stain.O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch.You ll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.Dreams are like a bird that mocks
an analysis method for poetry.an analysis method for poetry
Short Stories- Cambridge AS Level.Stories of Ourselves.Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849).The Fall of the House of Usher.This is one of the most famous gothic stories from one of the masters of the genre and contains many of the traditional elements of the genre
A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION.The following is not a line-by-line translation of the original poem. Rather, I have attempted to recreate the poem as a contemporary poet would write it, a practice assumed in the oral tradition
Mending Wall Reading Questions.1. What two causes of gaps in the wall does the speaker of the poem identify? winter and hunters.2. Who initiates the annual fixing of the wall? the speaker of the poem
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.Notes and Study Guide Questions.Background Information.The Raven is a Narrative Poem with a story line that leads the reader from curiosity to horror.The poem explores one aspect of the dark side of human nature
English I ECHS C. Edge.Thematic Unit: Love Poetry Daily by Naomi Shihab Nye Haiku poetry by Chora, Chiyo, Basho, and Issa My Papa s Waltz by Theodore Roethke Combing by Gladys Cardiff Harlem by Langston Hughes.Reading Skills and Strategies: Poetry
Redefining Literature.1. Objectives: to help students gain a broader conception of.poetry. To cultivate a more favourable affective disposition to.poetry and to gain an intuitive understanding of some of the main.structural elements of a poem such as rhythm, rhyme, meter.2. Learning Activities