Month: September 2020
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Week 7: Recorded Poetry
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Tuesday, September 29 In class (via Zoom) Lecture and discussion of recorded poetry: “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks “When the Revolution Comes” (YouTube) by The Last Poets “l.o.v.e” by Ursula Rucker “Seahorses and Flying Fish” by Hugo Ball Happy New Ear (1995) album Homework Explore the following resources: PennSound and poetry recordings Library of…
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Week 6: Poetry and Music
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Tuesday, September 22 In class: (Zoom) Lecture and discussion of sound in poetry. Homework: Write a brief (1 paragraph) metrical and sound analysis of a song you like. Post in Google Classroom, along with a link to the song. Thursday, September 24 In class: (Zoom) Discussion of songs Lecture and discussion of recorded poetry PennSound…
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Essay #1: Analysis and Interpretation of an Ekphrastic Poem or Concrete Poems
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Description For this essay, you must select: two thematically or authorially related poems from UBU Web Visual Poetry or UBU Web Historical or one poem from “Ekphrastic Poems” at The Poetry Foundation and the painting it is referencing and perform a detailed analysis of their strategies in support of a clearly stated thesis about their…
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Week 5 : Verbivocovisual
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Tuesday, September 15 In class: class meets via Zoom Discussion of concrete poetry. Lecture and discussion on musicality in poetry. Homework: Write a 1-paragraph proposal for Essay #1 in which you discuss which works you’re interested in exploring and what focus you seek in your essay. Thursday, September 17 In class: class meets via Zoom…
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Week 4: Looking at Poems
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Tuesday, September 8 In class: Zoom and in BH 116 Discussion of Reverse Ekphrastic works Lecture and discussion on poetic form and visual information Assignment: Read “Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry“ Go and comment on 3 of your classmates art pieces: here’s the link. Thursday, September 10 In class: Zoom and in BH 116 Lecture…
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Week 3: Painting with Words
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Tuesday, September 1 Asynchronous online class: Watch this video on the Daedalus and Icarus myth. Look at and annotate (using Hypothes.is) “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder What is Brueghel saying about the fall of Icarus? How does he say it using a visual medium? Read and annotate these poems:…