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The
mission of “To Serve Our Students
and the Community
through Lifelong Learning.” Syllabus for Creative Writing in Poetry—English 108 Monday 6:00-8:45 p.m. Instructor: M. Kulycky Telephone: (708)-596-2000, Extension 2305 Web Page: http://learn.ssc.edu/mkulycky
I. Course Description: This is a class in the creative writing of poetry. The emphasis is on the critiquing of submitted poems and the offering of suggestions as to the formatting of those poems for best aesthetic effect. We will read poems from various historical periods and study the different prosodic formats that have evolved within those periods. The goal behind the readings is to deepen our understanding of the medium of poetry and to thus have more tools available when composing our own poems.
II. Required Texts and Ancillaries: Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworth. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Shorter 5th ed. New York: Norton, 2005. Hacker,
Diana, and Nancy Sommers. The
A jump (flash) drive to save one’s work; An e-mail address to receive files relevant to the instruction (as attachments from the teacher) III. Reading-Assignments: August 30—(1) Please begin reading pages 1251 through 1275 (“Versification”) in The Norton Anthology of Poetry (2) Have accessed and saved to your jump drive Bob’s Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms. http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary2.html (3) Have read the file “What’s in a Poem—from ‘SoYouWanna’” found under “Poetry” at http://learn.ssc.edu/mkulycky/eng122.htm September 13—Early English Poems through the 19th Century—Please read the following poems: Geoffrey Chaucer—“Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale,” pp. 35-63 William Shakespeare—Sonnets 12, 15, 18, 29, 55, 65, 73, 116, 129—pp. 170-177 John Donne—“The Good Morrow,” p. 191; “Song,” p. 192; “Woman’s Constancy,” p. 192; “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” p. 198; “Sonnet 10,” p. 207; “Sonnet 14,” p. 208 Alexander Pope—“From An Essay on Man, in Four Epistles,” p. 376 William Wordsworth—“She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways,” p. 471; “It Is a Beauteous Evening,” p. 476; “London, 1802,” p. 477; “My Hearth Leaps Up,” p. 478; “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” p. 483; “The World Is Too Much with Us,” p. 484; “The Solitary Reaper,” p. 484 Emily Dickinson—poems on pages 719 through 732 October 11—Twentieth Century and Contemporary Poems—Please read the following poems: Emily Dickinson—pages 719-732 T.S. Eliot—“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” p. 862; “The Hollow Men,” p. 879 Roy Campbell—“The Zulu Girl,” p. 917; “The Sisters,” p. 918 Robert Frost—“The Road Not Taken,” p. 801; “Birches,” p. 802; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” p. 803; “Acquainted with the Night,” p. 804; “Provide, Provide,” p. 805 November 15—Free-verse Poems—Please read the following poems: Walt Whitman—“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” p. 696 e.e. cummings—“All in Green Went My Love Riding,” p. 892 William Carlos Williams—“The Red Wheelbarrow,” p. 829 W.H. Auden—“Musee des Beaux Arts,” p. 939 Ezra Pound—“The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter,” p. 846 Sylvia Plath—“Black Rook in Rainy Weather,” from the Internet; “Daddy,” p. 1145 Langston Hughes—“Mother to Son,” from the Internet IV.
Writing-Assignments—Due-dates (1) August 23rd—Incoming Impromptu (2) October 11th—Please hand in a metered poem containing rhyme and featuring a classical stanzaic format (such as a sonnet, for instance, or a triolet, or a ballad) (3) October 18th—Mid-term Exam (Also the day when you have handed in a minimum of twenty of the required forty original poems written for this class) (4) November 8th—Please submit a poem written exclusively in metaphors—perhaps a description of something or someone, or exploring a social issue (5) November 29th—Please submit a free-verse poem (7) A
total of at least forty poems submitted throughout the course due by
December 6th (6) December 13th—Final Exam V. Requirements: Please hand your poems in as typed manuscripts, double-spaced and in the Times New Roman 14-point size font--or equivalent--with pages numbered, and all work saved to your flash drive. I’ll not share any of your work with the class unless I have received your permission to do so. The last day that creative work will be accepted is December 6th. At least twenty of the required forty pages of poems should be handed in by October 18th. VI. Grading: All work will be graded in an even 50/50 manner concerning both (1) the ingenuity of the thinking in terms of content and presentation and (2) the correctness of grammar and punctuation. Although there is more “freedom” with regard to the conventions of grammar and rhetoric when one is writing a poem, the poem still has to use the rules of grammar and punctuation to best effect.
Late work
loses a full grade, from A to B , B to C,
and so
forth. As I have mentioned above, the grade will be composed of two
aspects: (1)
content, which includes creative conceptualization and balanced
development,
and (2) grammar and punctuation. Most unassigned poems can be corrected
and
re-submitted for another grade provided that the revisions are substantive
and extensive. Please do not hand in any poems that you have
written for
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