Questions for 11/19

Thank you for a wonderful class, everyone!  I hope that you enjoyed our continued exploration of poetry, words, and sound.  Next week we will meet in SC 152 at 6:30 pm for Dr. Ingram's performance and return to our class @ 8:30 pm.  I will also need some help from people in the class for set up and take down so that we can return to class on time.  Thank you in advance!

For class, please take a look at chapters 16 and 17 in our book.  I am also attaching a copy of our final paper.

Here are a few questions for your journal.  One of them may be the beginning of your final paper!

-- What did last night's videos add to your understanding of the poems you had read and we had discussed?

-- Compare and contrast Gwendolyn Brooks' reading of "We Real Cool" with John Ulrich's.

-- How does context help you understand poems more fully?

-- Compare and contrast Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" with a short story (like "The Cask of Amontillado" or "Saboteur").  How does each writer create character, handle narration, or present a plot?  

-- Would you like to see more narrative poetry?  Why?  Why not?

-- Should poetry be about oneself?  Or can poetry be about other people?

-- Discuss "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "Facing It" as poems about war.  Consider the differences between a British soldier's experience of WWI and an American soldier's experience of Vietnam.  Consider the differences between death and survival.  

-- Take a look at Gwendolyn Brooks' other poems, including "The Bean Eaters" but also these:  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172082  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182621  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/240198#poem  http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/protest/text11/brookschicagodefender.pdf

What do these poems add to your understanding of her work?  of her craft?  of poetry?  What do they tell you about "We Real Cool"?

-- Compare and contrast Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" with Li-Young Lee's "Eating Alone."

-- Use one of the terms we discussed to explore a poem that we did not talk about in class...yet.

-- How is poetry different from drama/theater or fiction?  How is it similar?

-- Argue for or against graphic poetry.

-- How do rhythm and meter contribute to poetry?

-- How does form and type contribute to poetry?

-- Read Denise Levertov's "Some Notes on Organic Form."  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/essay/237852

How do her ideas apply to free verse such as Robert Hayden's, Li-Young Lee's, or Yusef Komunyakaa's?  Or to poems by authors I haven't mentioned (Cathy Song's)?

See you at SC 152.