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REQUIRED READINGS OF POETRY YOU ARE REQUIRED TO PURCHASE MY BOOK: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF DREAMS. It is available, together with other single-author books of poetry which would fulfill course requirements at www.writersunlimited.org/LIPS.htm. My book is also at the Suffolk College Bookstore as noted below. You will need that specific book to write your poetry paper for this term. You should purchase a good, modern anthology of poetry. Any recent edition would be suitable but I recommend X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia's Introduction to Poetry. I, personally, like the older editions of it--up until the 9th or 10th edition! (Extra credit if you can guess why!) You probably can find an older edition used on-line. The poems I have listed below that I want you to read are in the recommended anthology as well as linked below. You could also, optionally, purchase one of my other of sventeen books of poetry. I can teach best what I do best--and reading others of my books will give you a greater insight into how I work. Books, are available through the Suffolk College Bookstore in the basement of the Babylon Student Center of the Ammerman Campus, Selden, NY. The bookstore also maintains a website at http://www.sunysuffolk.edu/Bookstore/ My own books and the works of other contemporary authors are available for purchase on line at www.writersunlimited.org/LIPS.htm You are required to buy a single-author book to study the work of one author in depth and review that book for your course. Required Poems Click to read comments on your poetry and other selections Also
read the following poems to get a sampler of important poets as well as possible
poems to analyze for the essay: Required Poems: If you don’t buy a poetry anthology with these
poems, you must print them out and bring them to class when required.
These
links appear live, on-line at www.writersunlimited.org/literature. Click the “ T. S. Eliot,
"Prufrock" http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
Percy Shelly, "Ozymandius" http://www.fael-luibh.com/poems/ozymandius.html
W. H. Auden,
"The Unknown Citizen" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15549
Mathew Arnold,
" William Stafford,
"Traveling Through the Dark" http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/William-Stafford/1087
Wifred Owen,
"Dulce est Decorum Est" http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Dulce.html
John Donne,
"The Flea" http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/flea.htm
Samuel Coleridge, "Kubla Kahn" http://www.classicauthors.net/Coleridge/kublakhan/
William Blake,
"Tyger" http://www.classicauthors.net/Blake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake1.html
William Blake,
"The Chimney Sweep" http://www.classicauthors.net/Blake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake16.html
Robert Burns,
“Auld Lang Syne” http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/rburns/bl-rburns-auldlangsyne.htm
Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass” is available complete, on line at http://www.bartleby.com/142/index2.html Read as much as you can of it! William Shakespeare, sonnets. Allen
Ginsberg,
"Howl" (I just had to put them side by side). Steep yourself in
both to understand how literature is the social history of any moment. Your
paper is designed to encourage you to read many poems on
your own in order to find a suitable poem to compare to one of my own.
You would benefit from reading deeply into a good anthology looking for a
similarity of themes. For your poetry paper, IF YOU PICK A POEM FOR YOUR PAPER THAT IS NOT ON THE LIST, IT MUST BE APPROVED BY DR. AXELROD and a copy of the poem should be passed in with your paper. "Prufrock"
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
"The World Is Too Much With Us" http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww317.html "On His Blindness" http://www.bartleby.com/101/318.html "Do Not Go Gentle" http://webpages.charter.net/classicpoetry/dtdonotgogentle.htm "Ozymandius" http://www.fael-luibh.com/poems/ozymandius.html "The Unknown Citizen" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15549 " "Traveling Through the Dark" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16217 "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15309 "Dulce
est Decorum Est" http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Dulce.html
"The
Flea" http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/flea.htm
"Kubla
Kahn" http://www.classicauthors.net/Coleridge/kublakhan/
"Tiger"
http://www.classicauthors.net/Blake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake1.html "The Chimney Sweep" http://www.classicauthors.net/Blake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake16.html Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is available complete, on line at http://www.bartleby.com/142/index2.html but for a glimpse of a gorgeous passage that compares to "The Voyeur" among my poems go to http://www.geocities.com/muna_qudah/song.html Other poems/poets you should read to feel educated: Shakespeare's sonnets; Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (I just had to put them side by side). Steep yourself in both to understand how literature is the social history of any moment. Anthologies of poetry available on-line: http://www.poets.org/search/search.cfm
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm
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