English 385: Modern Poetry
Spring 2015
Stacy Jones, Instructor
Course Description: Major twentieth-century poets and movements in England and America and their nineteenth-century predecessors.
The course consists primarily of class discussion, with brief weekly discussion board posts, a textual analysis essay, a midterm, and a final exam.
The course consists primarily of class discussion, with brief weekly discussion board posts, a textual analysis essay, a midterm, and a final exam.
The class begins with Walt Whitman:
"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
Allen Ginsberg
“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!”
Sylvia Plath
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
Lucille Clifton
“listen, you a wonder. you a city of a woman. you got a geography of your own."
The class ends with Li-Young Lee:
“A bruise, blue
in the muscle, you
impinge upon me.
As bone hugs the ache home, so
I'm vexed to love you, your body
the shape of returns, your hair a torso
of light, your heat
I must have, your opening
I'd eat, each moment
of that soft-finned fruit,
inverted fountain in which I don't see me.”
in the muscle, you
impinge upon me.
As bone hugs the ache home, so
I'm vexed to love you, your body
the shape of returns, your hair a torso
of light, your heat
I must have, your opening
I'd eat, each moment
of that soft-finned fruit,
inverted fountain in which I don't see me.”
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