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Dr. Bordelon's Intro to Poetry Course

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Readings

  1. 2019 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. Stevens "The Snowman"
  7. Szymborska "The End and the Beginning"
  8. Lux "A Little Tooth"; Bishop "One Art" "The Fish"
  9. Poetry today (if today encompasses 2015 and  2011).

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