Free Verse and Another Villanelle

I want to make sure that I post links to the poems we looked at and our questions for next week.

Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" is in chapter 13, but here is a link for you:  https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/those-winter-sundays
Listen to the poet read his own work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmJYs6PQKVc

Other poems by Hayden are "Middle Passage" and "Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday":
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43076
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48798

For more information about Hayden, see this article by Lavelle Porter:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/articles/detail/70280

Here is Philip Levine's "M. Degas...":     https://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/levine/m._degas_teaches_art_and_science_at_durfee_intermediate_school--detroit1942.php

The link above includes a recording of the poet reading.  The article below is by a former student of his:  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/detail/69938

We also looked at Russell Edson's prose poem:
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/memory-and-distance

For more information about the prose poem, see this article:
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/prose-poem-poetic-form

 Mary Ellen Solt's "Forsythia" is here:  http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Solt-Mary-Ellen_Forsythia.html
Brian Reed comments on this poem here: http://coldfrontmag.com/singular-vispo-first-encounters/

We also looked at and listened to John Hollander's "Swan and Shadow":
https://www.naic.edu/~gibson/poems/hollander1.html
Here is an interview with John Hollander although it doesn't seem to mention the poem we covered:
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2866/the-art-of-poetry-no-35-john-hollander


Let's finish with Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art":  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47536

Sarah Ruhl has written a play about Ms. Bishop: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/articles/detail/69912

To learn more about the revisions of "One Art," see these blog entries:  https://helensquared.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/tuesday-poem-one-art-elizabeth-bishop/
https://bluedragonfly10.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/one-art-the-writing-of-loss-in-elizabeth-bishop%E2%80%99s-poetry/
http://displacement-poetry.blogspot.com/2011/07/redrafting-elizabeth-bishop-and-one-art.html

Elizabeth Bishop is reading her poetry here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERfx52Qfyrc

By the way, you may use some of these links in your final paper for ENGL 190.

For Nov. 30, I would like you to read chapters 15 and 16 in our anthology.

Here are some questions for you and your journal.

Choose one of the poems we've discussed in class.  What is its theme?  Which elements contribute to the theme?

Which poem would you pair with the poem you've written about above?  Why?  Why not?

Which other piece of writing would you pair with this poem?  Why?  Why not?

What did Wednesday night's poems add to your understanding of poetry?  Why?

What did Wednesday night's poems add to your confusion about poetry?  Why?

How do the essays I've posted help you understand the poems and their poets?

Why did Philip Levine place Degas in a Detroit schoolroom?  What is he trying to say?  How is M. Degas different from a typical middle school teacher?

Which celebrity or historical figure would you place in a poem about MC?

Is it a good thing to place celebrities in poems?  Why?  Why not?

Describe the voice in one or more poems that we discussed.

Discuss the difference between the poet and the speaker in one or more poems.

How does it help you to listen to a poet read his/her own poem?  Consider how a poet introduces his/her poems.

Describe tone in one or more poems that we discussed.

Describe irony in one or more poems that we discussed.

Discuss a poem that you read but that we did not discuss.  Use some of the techniques we mentioned in class.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving--and best of luck with Black Friday!