EN198-H2 Contemporary Poetry



Mohawk Valley Community College

Utica and Rome, New York

Course Outlines

EN298: Modern Poetry C-3, Cr-3

Course Description

This course explores poetry written between World War I and the 1990s. Topics include the basic elements of prosody, prominent poetic forms, and key movements such as Modernism, Harlem Renaissance, the Black Mountain and New York Schools, confessional poetry, and the Beat movement, among others.

Prerequisite

EN102 English 2: Ideas & Values in Literature

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the forms, style, and diction of Twentieth Century poetry.

• Perceive relationships between the subject matter of Twentieth Century poetry and the larger historical context of the era.

• Produce written analyses of the above topics.

• Exhibit familiarity with the work of major Twentieth Century poets and poetic movements.

• Evaluate the function of persona, tone, diction, structural devices, and figurative language in Twentieth Century poetry.

• Compare and contrast the various schools of Twentieth Century poetry and understand their interrelationships.

Major Topics

• Basic elements of prosody

• Prominent poetic forms

• Modernism

• Harlem Renaissance

• The Black Mountain and New York Schools

• Confessional poetry

• The Beat movement

Detailed Course Outline

• Week 1: Introduction to Course

• Week 2: Hilda Doolittle, Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Week 3: Modernism - Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot

• Week 4: Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg

• Week 5: First Essay Due; e.e. cummings, Hart Crane

• Week 6: Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams

• Week 7: Harlem Renaissance - Langston Hughes, Claude McKay

• Week 8: Midterm Exam; John Berryman

• Week 9: Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop

• Week 10: Black Mountain School - Charles Olson, Robert Creeley

• Week 11: New York School - Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbury

• Week 12: Second Essay Due; Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich

• Week 13: Beat Movement - Alan Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso

• Week 14: Confessional Poetry - Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath

April 2021

George Searles

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download