ENG 3036: VOICES FROM AFAR



ENG 3015: SURVEY OF ENGLISH LIT II DR. MARY MCGLYNN

ORAL PRESENTATION SPRING 2017

GUIDELINES FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS

The purpose of the oral presentations is to give you a chance to lead the discussion of a text in a direction of interest to you while honing your skills in making an organized address to an audience. Working in pairs or trios, you will develop a 6-8 minute talk in which you close read a passage or make an argument about a poem. I would urge you to avoid online research, but should you venture madly into the ether, recall that all spoken or written words should be your own, with all sources clearly indicated. Each student will receive a separate grade.

Please plan to meet with me before your presentation—this can be a short conversation before or after class, or we can meet in my office. I may have some context or very short supplementary readings that you may want to draw on or incorporate.

All the poems can be found either on the blog as pdfs or in the Norton Anthology I ordered for the class—I’d ask you to spend 20 minutes looking through the prospective offerings, with the goal of choosing 2-3 poems/poets that would interest you. While I’ve selected some of the more canonical poems, you may opt to talk about another by the author you choose instead, in consultation with me. I will form pairs/trios and give you presentation dates and further details next class.

The Victorian and Decadent eras (presentations on March 8th and 27th)

1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee?”)

2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Charge of the Light Brigade” or “Ulysses”

3. Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”

4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The Woodspurge”

5. Christina Rossetti, “In An Artist’s Studio”

6. Rudyard Kipling, “If”

7. Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”

8. Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Leper”

9. “Michael Field,” “A Pen Drawing of Leda”

10. Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”

11. William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”

The Modernist era (presentations on April 5th )

1. Thomas Hardy, “Hap”

2. William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”

3. Siegfried Sassoon, “They”

4. Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier”

5. Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”

6. William Butler Yeats, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”

7. T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” or “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

8. Hugh Mac Diarmid, “Yank Oot Your Orra Boughs”

9. Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”

10. W.H. Auden, “Lullaby”

11. Louis MacNeice, “Snow” or “Carrickfergus”

12. Stevie Smith, “Not Waving But Drowning”

The postwar era (presentations on May 1st)

1. Philip Larkin, “High Windows”

2. Seamus Heaney, “Digging” or “Punishment”

3. Fleur Adcock, “The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers” or “Leaving the Tate”

4. Tom Leonard, “Six Glasgow Poems”

5. Paul Muldoon, “Quoof” or “Meeting the British”

6. Mebdh McGuckian, “Tulips” or “Slips”

7. Linton Kwesi Johnson, “My Revalushanary Fren”

8. Eavan Boland, “Anoerexic”

9. Moniza Alvi, “and If” or “Grand Hotel”

10. Carol Ann Duffy, “Standing Female Nude” or “Poet for Our Times”

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