Assignments

Memorize ten lines of a poem(s) by either Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, or William Blake. Recitations will be during Week #2 and #3.

In Vendler

Read appendices pp. 659-685.

Writing about poetry pp. 311-328.

Read Wordsworth's "My Heart Leaps Up," and "The Solitary Reaper" and Yeats' "Among School Children," "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "Down By the Salley Gardens," and "Sailing to Byzantium."

Come to class with plentiful observations on "The World Is Too Much With Us." Try to model what we did in class: read the poem many times, out loud too, turn it over and write down what you remember or what strikes you. You can return to the poem and keep writing.

Vendler: pp. 27-47 and 107-133.

Stevens, Wallace. "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm." (Handout, post).

———. "The Plain Sense of Things."

Gluck, Louise. 'The School Children." (Vendler, p. 33).