| AP Literature & Composition-Unit Seven |
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| Metaphysical to Modern Poetry |
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| Unit Vocabulary Reading Selections Writing Process Tools Author Focus |
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| Essential Questions: 1. What characterizes a literary period? 2. How are our selected poets conscious of the habits of their contemporary world—and of each other as writers (intertextuality) 3. How is poetry a multidimensional language? 4. What is the poem’s central purpose? How does poetic form impact a poem’s purpose (author’s purpose)? 5. What does a poem gain by shifts in meaning? Syntax? Tone? |
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| Unit Vocabulary |
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| Reading Selections METAPHYSICAL John Donne “Thou Hast Made Me, and Shall Thy Work Decay?” “Oh My Black Soul! Now Art Thou Summoned” “Death, be not proud” *other student selected poems (Perrine’s 697+) ROMANTICS -Blake -Wordsworth -Coleridge -Byron -Shelley -Keats AMERICAN POETS -Robert Frost* -Walt Whitman -TS Eliot -Henry David Thoreau Langston Hughes -Toni Morrison -Gwendolyn Brooks -Sylvia Plath -Emily Dickinson* (*Perrine’s 770,955) |
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| Writing Process 1. What has the poet’s imagination invented that is striking, or memorable, or beautiful—in content, in genre, in analogies, in rhythm, and in speaker? How does this relate to the concept of Picasso’s Bull? 2. ‘The Road Not Taken’ exercise from Vendler’s Exploring a Poem handout. Students will choose a poem from each literary period and imagine the poem written in a different person, tense or with an additional stanza, or with the parts rearranged or left out conjecturing why the poem might have wanted these pieces in this order. (Coincides with Trimble’s “Thinking Well” chapter in Writing With Style) 3. Selected poetry comprehension questions in Sound and Sense Writing Focus: Compare & Contrast Essay |
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| Author Focus |
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| IMAGES "Emily Dickinson." On line Image. Painting. Poems. 10 Oct. 2007. 10 Aug. 2008 <www.poems.net.au/.../emily-dickinson-photo1.jpg>. "Gwendolyn Brooks." No date. On line Image. Voices. University of Minnesota. 2006. 10 Aug. 2008 <voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/images/brooks_a.jpg>. "John Donne." No date. On line Image. Painting. Answers. 2008. 10 Aug. 2008 <http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/2/2c/300px-John_Donne_BBC_News.jpg>. "Langston Hughes." No date. On line Image. Britannica. 10 Aug. 200 <cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=82720&rendTypeId=4>. "Lord Byron." No date. On line Image. Painting. Users. 2005. 10 Aug. 2008 <users.otenet.gr/~mictop/Byron.gif>. "Robert Frost." No date. On line Image. Poets of Cambridge, U.S.A. 2006. 10 Aug. 2008 <www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/.../frost.jpg>. "Sylvia Plath." No date. On line Image. Swisseduc. 12 Nov. 2006. 10 Aug. 2008 <www.swisseduc.ch/.../icons/plath.jpg>. "Toni Morrison." No date. On line Image. Voices. University of Minnesota. 2006. 10 Aug. 2008 <voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/images/morrison_t1.jpg>. "Walt Whitman." No date. On line Image. Famous Poets and Poems. 2008. 10 Aug. 2008 <famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/walt_whitman.jpg>. |
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| Last Updated On: Aug 10, 2008 |
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| Concepts |
Terms |
| Tone Connotation Metaphor Symbolism |
Continued from Unit Five |
| Reading Poetry on 3 Levels Handout |
| Paired Poet Profile Project Handouts |
| TP-CASTT Analysis Handout |
| Connotation/Denotation Handout |
| Luminarium Metaphysical Resource Website |
| Victorian Web |
| Author Biography |
Author Links |
| Metaphysical Poets-John Donne |
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| Romantics |
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| Emily Dickinson* |
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| Walt Whitman |
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| TS Eliot |
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| Henry David Thoreau |
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| Robert Frost |
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| Langston Hughes |
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| Toni Morrison |
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| Gwendolyn Brooks |
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| Sylvia Plath |
