Study Guide for Final EN 190/190HM Fall 2013

While I have an odd bit of time, I thought I'd start our list of works that are on the final for EN 190/190HM.  How quickly time is passing!

Graphic Fiction:  excerpt from Maus, "The Cigarette," "Here"

Text Fiction:  Sherman Alexie's "This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" and "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven"; Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"; James Joyce's "Araby"; Ha Jin's "Saboteur"; Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"

[The picture below is of the Poe Museum in Richmond, VA.]

Film: F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) (the student presentation on vampires is at MyMC, and there may be a question on Werner Herzog's Nosferatu (1979))

Poetry:   We'll start with Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing":
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15752 and "O Captain! My Captain!":   http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15754

Here is Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California":  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15306

Hughes' "I, Too, Sing America" is here:  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1561, and here is a link to "Harlem":  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175884

Let's look at Mary Ellen Solt's "Forsythia":
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/concrete_files/image002.jpg

We also looked at Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow":  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537  Solt was influenced by Dr. Williams.

This is John Bradley's "On Trying to Teach the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks":
http://thebluehourmagazine.com/2013/10/17/on-trying-to-teach-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-by-john-bradley/

Here is Coleman Barks' translation of Rumi's "What Was Said to the Rose"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa07vKCwWPA  The text is here:  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16372

We've discussed Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Rites for Cousin Vit":

http://apoppiti.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/2013/03/11/the-rites-for-cousin-vit/
and her "We Real Cool":  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15433

Emily Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz":  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15393

"Because I could not stop for Death":  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15395

and "My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun":
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237186

Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" is here:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19217

Charles Bukowski's "my old man" is here:  http://benjaminjacobballard.wordpress.com/bukowski-my-old-man/

Remember Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky":

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15597

See this link for Robert Burns' "Red, Red Rose":
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16116

Martin Espada's poem set in Chelsea, MA is here:

http://sanspoetica.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/reflection-latin-night-at-the-pawnshop-by-martin-espada/

We'll also look at some poems in translation.  The first poem from the Chinese Book of Songs is quite ancient:
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/chinese_poetry_dead_doe.html

Michael Farman's translation is more recent:
http://www.cipherjournal.com/html/shijing.html

Ugh.  It took me two seconds to find the video of Prof. Wu's lecture on translating Robert Burns' poem into Chinese:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqZM3UDwq2w

Jessica Marinaccio discusses the first translation of modern Chinese poetry here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_giaEsZzco

Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram's presentation on (spoken word) poetry and performance (and politics) will be on the final.  How have our presentations this semester helped you understand literature more fully?  His PowerPoint is at MyMC, and several of the poems he performed to are at this site:

http://www.thecounselingpoet.com/poetry.html

Let's include the videos we listened to today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEXu6UmRPZc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LssFolrpiD4

And, of course, the link to Kate, Lukas, and El Hadj's Prezi on literacy:
http://prezi.com/davx36myehvl/world-literacy-rates-comparing-cause-and-effect/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Watch MyMC for Amavi and Sophia's PowerPoint on Sherman Alexie!

Let's consider these two poems that Amavi and Sophia looked at as well:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22091

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20629

All student presentations will be considered for the exam as well.

See the next page for terminology!!