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INTRODUCTION TO POETRY COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
ELL205 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY 3 3 3 6

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY
Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 Reading the Material Assigned Voice: “Western Wind” (Anonymous) “Lord Randall” (Anonymous) “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias” (Elegy) “Ode to a Nightingale ” by John Keats "Ode To My Family" song by The Cranberries “Dawn” by Robert Bly “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden Lecture & Discussion
2 Reading the Material Assigned Diction: “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning “Delight in Disorder” by Robert Herrick “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane “'Thou art indeed just, Lord” by Gerard Manley Hopkins Lecture & Discussion
3 Reading the Material Assigned Imagery: “First Death in Nova Scotia” by Elizabeth Bishop “Meeting at Night” Robert Browning “Neutral Tones” by Thomas Hardy “Leda and Swan” by William Butler Yeats Lecture & Discussion
4 Reading the Material Assigned Figures of Speech: “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns “That time of year thou may’st in me behold” by William Shakespeare “Hymn to God the Father” by John Donne “Woman to Child” by Judith Wright Lecture & Discussion
5 Reading the Material Assigned “Hymn to God the Father” by John Donne “Woman to Child” by Judith Wright Lecture & Discussion
6 Reading the Material Assigned Symbolism and Allegory: “Advice to My Son” by Peter Meinke “A Poison Tree” by William Blake “Virtue” by Gorge Herbert Lecture & Discussion
7 Reading the Material Assigned Syntax: “Me up at dies” by E.E. Cummings “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by William Butler Yeats “The Silken Tent” by Robert Frost Lecture & Discussion
8 - MID-TERM EXAM -
9 Reading the Material Assigned Rhyme and Alliteration: “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost “In the Valley of the Elwy” Gerard Manley Hopkins Lecture & Discussion
10 Reading the Material Assigned “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” by William Shakespeare “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” by Howard Moss “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke “The Battle” Lecture & Discussion
11 Reading the Material Assigned “I walk alone” by Lonnie Poco “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman “I, Too” by Langston Hughes Lecture & Discussion
12 Reading the Material Assigned Poems and Paintings: “The Starry Night” by Robert Fagles “In Goya’s greatest scene we seem to see” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti “The Sick Rose” by William Blake Lecture & Discussion
13 Reading the Material Assigned Translated Poems: “You are a Must for Me” by Atilla İlhan “Now Sweetheart” by Cemal Süreyya Lecture & Discussion
14 Reading the Material Assigned “The United Fruit of Co.” by Pablo Neruda Lecture & Discussion
15 Reading the Material Assigned Review Lecture & Discussion
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -