Wk One: Wm. Carlos Williams,Ezra Pound ,&Langston Hughes
Wk 2 : Hughes & A.E. Housman
Wk 3 : Ben Jonson & John Masefield
Wk 4 : Memorizing Jonson’s “Song: To Celia”
Wk 5 : Memorizing Masefield’s “Sea Fever”
Wk 6 : Ballads: D. Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” & “Edward”
Wk 7 : Archibald MacLeish’s “Ars Poetica,” Blake’s “The Tiger,” & Wordsworth’s“Daffodils”
Wk 8 : “Chap. 2: Reading the Poem,” Perrine’s Sound & Sense
Wk 9 : Midterm Exam
Wk 10 : 1) “Reading the Poem”
2) Dickinson, “I’m Nobody”
Wk 11 : 1) “Chap. 3: Denotation and Connotation,” S&S
2) Byron, “So, We’ll Go No More A-Roving”
Wk 12 : 1) “Denotation and Connotation”
2) Dickinson, “I Had No Time to Hate”
Wk 13 : 1) Memorizing “I Had No time to Hate”
2) “Imagery”
Wk 14 : 1) Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”
2) “Imagery”
Wk 15 : Blake’s “Ah, Sunflower”
Wk 16 : 1) Carpe diem poetry
2) Herrick, “To the Virgin to Make Much of Time”
Wk 17 : 1) Tennyson, “Break, Break, Break”
2) ------, “The Eagle”
Wk 18 Final Exam