UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA

INSTITUTO DE LETRAS

DEPARTAMENTO DE LETRAS GERMÂNICAS

YEAR: 2012 SEMESTER: 01

Poesia de Língua Inglesa

Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação

Classes: Wednesdays and Fridays/ 20h 30 to 22h 30
Room: PF5 – SALA 103

COURSE DESCRIPTION

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Raise students’ awareness of the structural elements of poetry:

1. Form: metre, rhythm and rhyme;

2. Expressive units: image and symbols;

3. Function: organisation and meaning;

• Contextualization of aesthetical principles and local projects;
• Provide a theoretical and practical framework that buttress critical readings of poetry;
• Bird’s eye view of English language poetry: From William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney;

TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES

• Critical readings of theoretical texts related to poetry: summary each class;
• Interpretative readings of poems (tests and essays);
• Poetry readings (oral and written);

GRADING CRITERIA

• Group work: critical reviews about texts and poems: 1/3
• Mid-term activity (in class): 1/3
• Final activity (in class): 1/3

ATTENDANCE POLICY

·         You must attend 70% of the classes;

·         If you are 30min late you will be considered absent;

SCHEDULE

March

Ø  07-03        Presentation of the Course;

Ø  09-03        Theory: Adorno, Theodor. “Palestra Sobre

Lírica e Sociedade”. In. Notas de Literatura. Tradução Jorge de Almeida.

Practice: Shakespeare, William. “Shall I compare thee to a Summer Day”.

Ø  14-03:       Theory: Adorno, Theodor. “Palestra Sobre

Lírica e Sociedade”. In. Notas de Literatura. Tradução Jorge de Almeida.

Practice: Shakespeare, William. “Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds”

Ø  *16-03      Activity in Class about Adorno and Shakespeare.

Ø  21-03        Theory: Philip Hobsbaum. “Metre and Rhythm” and “Blank Verse”. (pp.

– 10 and 10-22)

Practice: John Donne. a) “The Flea”; b) “To his mistress going to bed”;

1        23-03        Theory: Philip Hobsbaum. “Verse Forms I ”

The terzza rima and the ballad;

Practice:

Ø  * 28-03 (NO CLASS – Conference)       QUESTIONS ABOUT:

Philip Hobsbaum. “Verse Forms II” The haiku and the sonnet;

Ø  * 30-03 (NO CLASS – Conference)       QUESTIONS RESEARCH

Types of verses and forms;

Ø 

April

Ø  * 04-04 (Conference)       Theory: Raymond Williams. “The Romantic Artist”.

Practice (English Romanticism) William Wordsworth. “Preface to Lyric Ballads” and “The Thorn”.

Ø  06-04                                NO CLASS – Holy Friday

Ø  11-04                                Feedback on activities

Ø  13-04                                Theory: Daniel P. Watkins. “History as Demon in

Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”.

Practice (English Romanticism): Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”.

Ø  * 18-04                             Activity in class – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and

“History as Demon”.

Ø  20-04                                English Romanticism – Lord Byron, Shelley and Keats

Ø  25-04                    Theory: David S. Raynolds. “The United States Need Poets. The

Political and Social Crisis.”

Practice (American Romanticism) Walt Whitman. “I hear America Singing”

Ø  * 27-04                 Activity in Class about English and American Romanticism.

May

Ø  02-05                    Theory: Christopher Benfey. “Emily Dickinson and the

American South.”

Practice (American Romanticism): Emily Dickinson

Ø  04-05                    Theory: Marie Barroff: “Wallace Stevens: The World and the

Poet”

American Modernism: Wallace Stevens

Ø  *09-05                  Activity in Class about Whitman Dickinson and Stevens.

Ø  18-05                    Theory: George Bornstein “Ezra Pound and the making of

modernism”.

Practice: Ezra Pound and Imagism

Ø  23-05                    Theory American Imagism – William Carlos Williams; 

Practice (American Modernism): William Carlos Williams;

Ø  25-05                    Theory. Anthony Easthope. “The Modernism of Eliot and

Pound”.

American/ English Modernism: T. S. Eliot. “Morning at the Window” and Ezra Pound. Selections of Canto 84.

Ø  * 30-05                 Activity in Class about Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.

June

Ø  01-06        Feedback on Activity about Modernism – Selection of Poems

Ø  * 06-06     NO CLASS – MID TERM ACTIVITY (Poetry Analysis)

Ø  * 08-06     NO CLASS (Emenda de feriado) – M. T. ACTIVITY (Poetry Analysis)

Ø  13-06        Theory: Terry Eagleton. “Crazy John and the Bishop”.

Practice (Irish Symbolism): William Butler Yeats

Ø  15-06        Feedback on the activity.

Ø  22-06        Theory. Poetry of the Thirties

Post War Poets: W. A. Auden and Louis McNeice

Ø  22-06        Theory – Poetry of the 50’s.: Morrison, Blake. The Movement, Oxford

Press, 1980.

The Movement Poetry: Dylan Thomas; Thom Gunn; Ted Hughes;

Ø  27-06        Beat Poets – Selection

Ø  * 29-06     FINAL ACTIVITY – IN CLASS

July

Ø  04-07        Results;

Ø  06-07        Feedback;

BIBLIOGRAPHY (more to be suggested throughout the course)

CHEVALIER, Jean & GHEERBRANT, Alain. Dicionário de Símbolos: Mitos, sonhos, costumes, formas, figuras, cores, números. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora S.A, 1982.

FINAMORE, Frank J. Half Hours with the Best Poets. New York: Gramecy Books, 1999.

FORD, Boris (Ed.). The Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Blake to Byron. Vol. 5. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1961.

HEANEY, Seamus. Seamus Heaney: The spirit Level. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1996.

HOBSBAUM, Philip (Ed.). William Wordsworth: Selected Poetry and Prose. London and New York: Routledge, 1991.

HOBSBAUM, Philip. Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form. London: Routledge, 1996.

WHITMAN, Walt. Folhas das Folhas de Relva (Leaves of the Grass).  Trad. Geir Campos. São Paulo: 1983.