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Dr. Bordelon's Intro to Poetry Course

Here you'll find various and sundry items to help you through the course.

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Readings | Writing Assignments | Writing Suggestions | General Information

Readings

  1. Poetry Handout
  2. What Is a Poem? Atlantic Monthly
  3. Shakespeare "My Mistress"; Addonizio "First Poem for You"
  4. Wordsworth "It is a Beautous Evening," "The World is Too Much With Us," "The Tables Turned" and Blake "The Tyger" "The Lamb"; selections from A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
  5. Dickinson "I Died for Beauty" (manuscript of poem -- no way of getting around it: very cool); "It Dropped so Low"
  6. Szymborska "The End and the Beginning"
  7. Lux "A Little Tooth"; Bishop "One Art" "The Fish"
  8. Poetry Month Readings: Gerald Stern "Still Burning" "Swifts" "This is It"; Anne Marie Macari "The Changing Coat"
  9. The Consolations of Strangeness -- review of poetry that offers great descriptions of what poetry is.

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