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FORM OF POETRY Section 001 / Fall 2004 / Susan Tichy / Tuesday 7:20-10:00 / Thompson Hall 106 FREE VERSE & ITS KINFOLK, WEEKS 8-10
WEEK 8: ROOTS OF FREE VERSE
We will also revisit the definitions, nature and uses of accentual
verse and wallow around in the border swamp between "loose iambics" and
free verse. READING: BOOKS & PHOTOCOPIES: Hulme: Romanticism and Classicism MODERN 889 Hopkins: Letters MODERN 873 VOCABULARY / PRINCETON: Ode, free verse, American Poetry III: Modernist Poetry (p. 54),
Objective correlative READING: POEMS: With Beyers: Collins: Ode: On the Poetical Character 613, Ode to Evening 615 Smart: from Jubilate Agno 625 Blake: To the Evening Star 671 Gray: The Bard Wordsworth: Ode: Intimations of Immortality 728 Keats: Ode to Psyche 843 Shelley: Mount Blanc 796 Whitman: Song of Myself 961 Arnold: Dover Beach 999 Moore: An Octapus MODERN 444 Eliot: Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock 1230/MODERN
463, The Waste Land 1236/MODERN 472 Accentual Poems: Hardy: Neutral Tones 1049 Hopkins: poems begin on page 1062 in the general anthology, on page
66 in the MODERN Yeats: The Fisherman MODERN 104, Easter 1916
105, Under Ben Bulben 138 Stevens: The Snow Man 247 Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow 294 Jeffers: Shine Perishing Republic 1210/MODERN 415,
Hurt Hawks 1212/MODERN 416, Fawn's
Foster Mother 416 Ransom: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter 1255 (same meter as
Hardy's Neutral Tones) Gurney: To His Love 1260/MODERN 496 Eliot: Sweeney Among the Nightengales 469, from The Four
Quartets: Dry Salvages 1249, Little Gidding MODERN
488 Auden: September 1, 1939 MODERN
801, A New Year Greeting 814, A Lullaby 815, Age of Anxiety Bishop: The Fish 1409/CONTEMP 21, In the Waiting
Room CONTEMP 34 Swenson: Question CONTEMP 46 Stafford: Traveling Through the Dark CONTEMP
76 Merrell: An Upward Look CONTEMP 324 Revard: October Isle of Sky 1719 1) Review the relationships among form, subject matter, speaker,
and occasion which Beyers traces in poems of the "loose" tradition. We will
probably use Eliot as our focal point, but you should also expect to discuss
Moore, Whitman, and the Romantics. 2) Discuss modern uses of accentual verse, using Hopkins & Yeats
as exemplars of two distinct types, but also touching on Bishop, Jeffers,
Eliot, & others. 3) Continue small group workshop. |