課程大綱
Week 1 Poetry Delights and Instructs
Poetry Recitation: Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night”& Robert Frost’s “The Pasture”
Lecture 1: Poetry Delights and Instructs
Lecture 2: Poetry Communicates Experience
Lecture 3: Poetry Says Much in Little
Lecture 4: A Course Description with a Syllabus
Lecture 5: Why Do We Read All These Masterpieces?
Multiple-Choice Questions for Week 1 (Poetry Delights and Instructs)
Week 2 William Shakespeare:“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day”
Poetry Recitation: William Shakespeare's Sonnets (18 & 73)
Lecture 1: Poetry Reading-aloud Exercise
Lecture 2: Sonnet 18: An Explanation
Lecture 3: Devices and Techniques
Lecture 4: Immortality through Literature
Lecture 5: Structure of English Sonnets
Lecture 6: Why Should We Read Shakespeare?
Multiple-Choice Questions for Week 2 (William Shakespeare).
Week 3 John Milton: “Doth God Exact Day-labor, Light Denied?”
Poetry Recitation: Milton’s Sonnet 19 & Paradise Lost (Invocation, lines 1-16)
Lecture 1: Poetry Reading-aloud Exercise
Lecture 2: John Milton's Life and Works
Lecture 3: Miltonic Sonnet
Lecture 4: Milton’s Sonnet 19: An Explanation
Lecture 5: Commentary on Milton's Sonnet 19
Lecture 6: The Invocation of Paradise Lost
Multiple-Choice Questions for Week 3 (John Milton)
Week 4 John Donne: “But We by a Love So Much Refined”
Poetry Recitation: John Donne's “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
Lecture 1: Poetry Reading-aloud Exercise
Lecture 2: Life of John Donne
Lecture 3: Metaphysical Poetry
Lecture 4: Donne's “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
Lecture 5: Themes: Death, Love, Faith, and Science
Multiple-Choice Questions for Week 4 (John Donne)
Week 5 William Wordsworth: “Emotion Recollected in Tranquility”
Poetry Recitation: Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
Lecture 1: Poetry Reading-aloud Exercise
Lecture 2: Life of William Wordsworth
Lecture 3: Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
Lecture 4: Wordsworth's Definition of Poetry
Lecture 5: Characteristics of Romanticism
Lecture 6: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”: An Explanation
Multiple-Choice Questions for Week 5 (William Wordsworth)
Week 6 John Keats: “Much Have I Traveled in the Realms of Gold”
Poetry Recitation: John Keats's Poems
Lecture 1: Poetry Reading-aloud Exercise
Lecture 2: Life of John Keats
Lecture 3: “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer”: An Explanation
Lecture 4: “Negative Capability”
Lecture 5: “Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty”
Multiple-Choice Questions for Week 6 (John Keats)
Week 7 Walt Whitman: “I Celebrate Myself”
Poetry Recitation: Walt Whitman's Poems
Lecture 1: Poetry Reading-aloud Exercise
Lecture 2: “I am Large, I Contain Multitudes”
Lecture 3: “Walt Whitman, an American”
Lecture 4: “One's Self I Sing”
Lecture 5: “Song of Myself” (Sections I & II)
Multiple-Choice Questions for Week 7 (What Whitman)
Week 8 Emily Dickinson: “I'm Nobody, Who are You?”
Poetry Recitation: Emily Dickinson's Poems
Lecture 1: Poetry Reading-aloud Exercise
Lecture 2: “The Mother of Modern American Poetry”
Lecture 3: Life of Emily Dickinson
Lecture 4: “I'm Nobody, Who Are You?”
Lecture 5: “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”
Lecture 6: “This Is My Letter to the World”
Lecture 7: “I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died”
Lecture 8: “Tell All the Truth Bu Tell It Slant -”
Multiple-Choice Questions for Week 8 (Emily Dickinson)
Week 9 Robert Frost: “A Road Less Traveled By”
Poetry Recitation: Robert Frost's Poems
Lecture 1: Poetry Reading-aloud Exercise
Lecture 2: Life of Robert Frost
Lecture 3: “The Sound of Sense”
Lecture 4: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Lecture 5: “The Road Not Taken”
Lecture 6: “Mowing”
Lecture 7: “Mending Wall”
Multiple-Choice Questions for Week 9 (Robert Frost)
參考資料
Textbook/教材:
Zongying, Huang. Ed. Selected Readings in British and American Poetry. 2nd. Ed. Beijing:
Higher Education Press, 2014.
黃宗英編著:《英美詩歌名篇選讀》(第二版),北京:高等教育出版社,2014年。
Reference Books/參考書:
Abrams, M. H. General Ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature.Vol.2. New York &
London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986.
Fussell, Paul. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form.New York: Random House, 1979.
Perrine, Laurence. Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry. 6th ed. New York:
HBJ,1982.
Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan. Eds. The New PrincetonEncyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics. Princeton: Princeton UniversityPress, 1993.
Zongying, Huang. A Road Less Traveled By—On the Deceptive Simplicity in the Poetry of Robert Frost. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2000.