Study Guide for Final

Here is the prettied-up version of our study guide for the final.


Film -- Nosferatu (1922)
scenes from Nosferatu (1979)    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE2niO-Th4U  Go to 1:43:51 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VXBZOaz7Ts
scenes from Murnau's Sunrise   Here is a link to the scene that we saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XYZQbjGykA  

Fiction--
Ha Jin's Saboteur -- revenge, 3rd person, set in China, Mr. Chiu is a newlywed, professor from Harbin
Poe's The Cask of Amontillado -- death; 1st person reliable narrator, vengeance, retribution, Montresor (narrator as older man), Fortunato (victim)
James Joyce's Araby -- epiphany -- narrator (unnamed) -- Araby = bazaar/marketplace -- setting: Ireland in the late 1800s/early 1900s

Poetry
Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43768 -- dramatic monologue (speaker is the Duke of Ferrara who was rumored to have killed his first wife)

James Mason reads "My Last Duchess" here.  You can also find various lectures explaining Browning's classic poem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZbNrNE9q8g

Philip V. Allingham provides various readings of the poem here: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/rb/duchess/pva264.html

Sherman Alexie's "Dangerous Astronomy": https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/dangerous-astronomy -- villanelle by author of "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven"

Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night": https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night -- villanelle to his father

Sir Anthony Hopkins reads "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfK809B0Qs

Gwendolyn Brooks' "the rites for cousin vit": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/51983 -- Italian or Petrarchan sonnet

Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It": https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/facing-it -- Vietnam memorial

Komunyakaa reads his poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90yxqlVrLP8&t=2s

Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 (My mistress' eyes...)  https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/my-mistress-eyes-are-nothing-sun-sonnet-130

Alan Rickman reads the poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP06F0yynic&t=2s

William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" -- no idea but in things -- a physician who wrote poems on the side -- modern poetry
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/red-wheelbarrow

Williams reads his poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqIl3oX_44s

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

Robert Hayden reads his poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmJYs6PQKVc

I'll finish with Mary Ellen Solt's "Forsythia":  http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Solt-Mary-Ellen_Forsythia.html -- shape, graphic poem

Another of her poems is "Lilac."

Petrarch's Sonnet 3 in the Canzioniere -- Good Friday, how he met Laura
http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/canzoniere.html?poem=3

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 -- listened to poet read, doesn't look like a poem but sounds like a poem

You can listen to the poet read his poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-77j2Aw6dM

John Hollander's Swan and Shadow -- visual poem but unlike Solt's poem -- words horizontal and made sense -- not just a visual poet unlike Solt
https://www.naic.edu/~gibson/poems/hollander1.html

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

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

Miranda Otto reads "One Art" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aIcWdX7xaY&t=177s

Poe's "The Raven" -- creepy ambiance/dominant impression -- rhythm (trochaic octameter) -- internal rhyme -- death -- depression -- Michael Oliver's film with backstory about Poe -- Poe: tension in the US coming up to the Civil War -- poetry as escape
To read the poem, see this link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48860

Here is another performance of "The Raven": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K6-wO94-6I

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" -- two performances -- oppression -- Dunbar's life
To read "We Wear the Mask," see this link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44203

The two performances we saw are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDwgnWE6jW8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qy90YT_II

Li Young Lee's "Eating Alone" -- free verse -- used farming to show that everything has its season -- impression -- published in 1986
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/eating-alone

We finished our unit on poetry by looking at the bop, the poetry of Aafa M. Weaver, and the poetry of Wang Ping, a poet-activist who emigrated to the US from China.

Let's start with the bop.  Poets.org has a good overview of the form:
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/bop-poetic-form

Aafa M. Weaver's "Rambling" is here:
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/rambling

I also shared a bop written by Evelyn N. Alfred for a poetry workshop that we both took:

flashes: a bop for bix b.

he hungered for the notes

playing before he could see the keys

mother bird chewed them for him

while he regurgitated beauty

fingertips savoring the song

without knowing the recipe.

the hungry and the hanged, the damaged and the done
striving along this spinning rock, tumbling past the sun

without knowing the recipe

he learned how to taste the tune

adding brown sugar, nutmeg,

and horn lines

but couldn’t bake an unfamiliar harmony

cooling his heart,  sinking the middle

to what effect?

is a fallen cake ruined?

the hungry and the hanged, the damaged and the done
striving along this spinning rock, tumbling past the sun

is a fallen cake ruined?

forced to flash up the treble

singed in chicago winds.

south side speakeasies

intoxicated his ballads

he hungered for the notes.

the hungry and the hanged, the damaged and the done
striving along this spinning rock, tumbling past the sun

 --- Evelyn N. Alfred

The song excerpt comes from “God Bless Our Dead Marines” by A Silver Mt. Zion

 This is the music that Evelyn was responding to in her poem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEIM2VAyXw

Tara Betts' "More Salt," a bop poem about her grandmother, takes a more down to earth tone:
http://coloronline.blogspot.com/2009/07/tara-betts-poetry-friday.html

We watched the Grandma Thanksgiving Rap Song, a remix of Shirley Caesar's song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amONEHAhLHY

Aafa M. Weaver has also taught in Taiwan and is fascinated by Chinese culture.  This poem, "Being Chinese," shows this aspect of him.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/58516

We also watched this interview:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR86CHOJrnU

For more information about this poet, see these links:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/afaa-michael-weaver
http://www.afaaweaver.net/index.html

We finished the unit on poetry with Wang Ping, a poet who is concerned with not only identity but also the environment.
The first poem we looked at was "Solstice in Lhasa":
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/solstice-llasa

The other was "A Hakka Man Farms Rare Earth in China":  http://fpif.org/a_hakka_man_farms_rare_earth_in_south_china/

terms:
poetry --
personification
prose poem -- no line breaks, written like prose,
rhythm
voice -- poet's/poem's individuality
speaker -- narrates the poem (can be poet, may not be poet)
pace
line breaks (end-stopped; enjambment)
alliteration (consonants)
assonance (vowels)
metaphor
simile (like/as)
irony
free verse
villanelle (song)
graphic poem/concrete poem/visual poem
sonnet (Shakespearean/Petrarchan or Italian)
theme

fiction --
epiphany (ah-ha moment at the end of the story)
point of view (1st--naive, unreliable, reliable/3rd--omniscient, objective, limited)
plot (narrative arc -- flashbacks -- exposition--foreshadowing)
character (protagonist--antagonist--round/flat--major/minor -- motivation)
setting
theme

intersectionality