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Extra Credit Poetry Reading!

Extra Credit Poetry Reading!. For extra credit, I asked the class to bring a favorite poem to class with a typed paragraph about why the poem is a favorite. Read the poem you brought (or part of it if it is excessively long).

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Extra Credit Poetry Reading!

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  1. Extra Credit Poetry Reading! • For extra credit, I asked the class to bring a favorite poem to class with a typed paragraph about why the poem is a favorite. • Read the poem you brought (or part of it if it is excessively long). • You must also briefly share your reasons for choosing it with the class. • Make sure to turn in your paragraph to me by the end of class to get the extra credit you have earned.

  2. Reading Due Today: • Textbook Reading: “The Speaker in the Poem” p. 427 and “Myth” p.610 • Lit Reading: 6 Poems (Pick only 3 for Reading Response!) • Langston Hughes “Negro” p. 429 and “Harlem” p. 506  • Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias” p. 447 • William Butler Yeates “The Second Coming” p. 717 • Robert Frost “Fire and Ice” p. 436 • Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Kubla Khan” p. 664-665

  3. History and Myth in Poetry:Langston Hughes • One of the foremost members of the Harlem Renaissance • Great American poet and early innovator of Jazz Poetry—a forerunner of modern Slam and Jam Poetry

  4. History and Myth in Poetry: Langston Hughes “Negro” (1926) • Who is the speaker here? Is the speaker intimate and personal or larger than life? • What do you make of the fact that this speaker embodies or stands in for an entire group of people? • What images caught your attention as you read this poem? “Harlem” (1951) • What is the “dream deferred”? • How many metaphors does this poem contain? • What makes the last line so powerful? • Is it more powerful because the reader must infer the final metaphor themselves? • Look at the time gap between these two poems. Does this change your understanding of the frustration and anguish simmering under the surface of the second poem?

  5. Referential Poetry:“Red Wheelbarrow” (490) and “An Apology” (494) • Let’s read both poems and then discuss their connection to each other. • Other examples of this: • Christopher Marlowe “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” p. 693 and Walter Raleigh “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” p. 699 • We will be reading these next week for our week on the Theme “Love in Literature”!

  6. References in Poetry, Art, and Pop Culture • Just like poems can refer to other poetry, other forms of literature (novels, essays, drama) and pop culture (movies, song lyrics, etc) can refer to poetry as well. • For example, Xanaduthe crazy futuristic fantasy film from the 80s (made into a music in 2007!), was inspired by the poem “Kubla Kahn” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. • Coleridge was inspired to write his poem after reading about the real Xanadu, the summer palace of Kublai Khan, the Mongol ruler and emperor of China. • This poem was also “inspired by” the massive amount of opiates Coleridge was high on at the time. In fact, this poem was written in one sitting when he woke up from an opium dream and was never finished because someone came to the door and he forgot everything after answering.

  7. Watch Brian Cranston preform “Ozymandias” • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dpghfRBHE

  8. "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley p. 501 • A couple of difficult words before we start: • Trunkless: In this case, a body lacking a torso • Visage: Face • How does the author create irony here? What specific words does he use that set up the contrast between those "two levels of experience"? Be sure to tell me how the words you choose answer this question. • Why did the original builder of the statue want people to "despair"? • Why might people still "despair" when they see the statue, but for different reasons?

  9. Yeats’ “The Second Coming” • This poem relies heavily on Christian imagery. • Many poems in English rely on Christian imagery or other Western Judeo-Christian mythic imagery. • If you aren’t familiar with these references, a quick Google can be very enlightening. • The dominant idea/reference in this poem is of the second coming of Christ, a time that is supposed to usher in the end of the world and a new era of peace for the faithful in heaven. • This poem, however, radically upsets those expectations. • Any guesses as to what historical event might have influenced the bleak outlook of this poem?

  10. References in Literature and Pop Culture to Yeats “The Second Coming” • Chinua Achebe's watershed English-language novel Things Fall Apart takes its title from the poem. The fourth album by hip-hop band, The Roots, Things Fall Apart is inspired by the Chinua Achebe novel.[4] • DC Comics' series Batman: The Widening Gyre, written by Kevin Smith, and illustrated by Walter Flanagan, was titled after the opening line of this poem and draws heavily on Yeats' themes and symbolism. • Joan Didion's non-fiction collection Slouching Toward Bethlehem takes its title from this poem. This adaptation of a line in the poem has become an idiom, using the phrase "Slouching Toward..." to indicate lumbering movement towards an end, such as the title Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert Bork • Clive Barker's novel Weaveworldquotes the poem and features imagery from it. • Stephen King's novel The Stand quotes the poem and heavily references the poem throughout the book. Many plot points parallel lines from the poem. • Woody Allen's 2008 collection of comedy writings "Mere Anarchy" takes its title from the poem. • Ethan James' album What Rough Beast and its title track are based on Yeats's poem. • Night Ride Home, Joni Mitchell's 1991 album, contains a song based on the poem – "Slouching towards Bethlehem". • The Bright Eyes titular track, Four Winds, draws inspiration from Yeats's poem. This is most obviously seen in the appropriation of the poem's closing in the following refrain:"And it's the Sum of Man slouching towards Bethlehem." • Several episodes of the TV series Andromeda, depicting a universe in chaos following a great war, are named after phrases from this poem ("Its Hour Come Round at Last", "In the Widening Gyre", and "Pitiless as the Sun"). • Season 6, episode 21 of The West Wing is titled "Things Fall Apart" Season 4/Episode 4 of Angel, is titled "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" • In the HBO TV series The Sopranos, the episode "The Second Coming" is titled after the poem and features it prominently. Also, in the episode "Cold Cuts," Dr. Melfi quotes the poem to Tony Soprano in a therapy session. Furthermore, the poem is quoted in the series finale "Made in America". • Season 3, episode 5 of Sons of Anarchy is titled "Turning and Turning" and episode 7 is titled "Widening Gyre". • In Season 2, episode 2 Revelations (Babylon 5), Gkar recites part of The Second Coming during the closing segment. • Season 3, episode 1 of Heroes is titled "The Second Coming". The storyline has some parallels to the poem, which is also quoted in its entirety as a voiceover during the last minutes of the episode. • Sludge metal band The Body used the opening lines of the poem as part of the lyrics to their song Even the Saints Knew their Hour of Failure and Loss.[5]

  11. Isn’t it Ironic? • Irony occurs when "a discrepancy exists between two levels of meaning and experience." • Dramatic irony: The reader knows something the characters don’t. • Situational Irony: The outcome of a situation drastically upsets readers’ expectations. • Verbal Irony: Saying one thing and meaning another. (Sarcasm is an example of this.) • The section on irony is on p. 499 of your textbook.

  12. Essay 1: Reminders • Remember: Essay 1 is more of a Project than a traditional Essay • 2 Parts: 1 part creative, 1 part analytical • Now that you all have had a week to look at the prompt, do you have any questions? • Due: One week from Thursday: March 13 YOU MUST SUBMIT A PRINTED COPY IN CLASS AND A ONLINE COPY TO TURNITIN.COM • When in doubt: RE-READ THE PROMPT and THEN email me.

  13. How to Submit to TurnItIn.com • Go to www.turnitin.com • If you already have an account from another class, skip to step 5 • Click “Create Account” at the top right. • Look down to the link that says “Student” • Click “Student” and then create a new student account • Use the class ID: 7751311 and Password: 102lawson14 • If you already have an account, here’s how to enroll in a class: http://www.turnitin.com/en_us/training/student-training/enrolling-in-a-class • Detailed Instructions on how to Submit a Paper: http://www.turnitin.com/en_us/training/student-training/submitting-a-paper

  14. Next Week: Introducing Themes Our first theme? Love • Tuesday, March 11 • Topics: Themes Across Genres: Love.  Traditional Love Poems. • Homework Due: • Read introduction “Poems About Love” p. 637. • Read  5 poemsand choose 3 to do Read and Respond: • EB Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee?” p. 638 • Shakespeare’s “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” p. 702 • Pablo Neruda’s “Tonight I Can Write” p. 695 • Christopher Marlowe “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” p. 693 • Walter Raleigh “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” p. 699

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