Class Schedule
1st week: Introduction: Haiku, Epigram, Epitaph and etc.
2nd week: The Eagle (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Winter (William Shakespeare)
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day (William Shakespeare)
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day (Howard Moss)
The Whipping (Robert Hayden)
Ballad of Birmingham (Dudley Randall)
3rd week: Kitchenette Building (Gwendolyn Brooks)
The Red Wheelbarrow (William Carlos Williams)
Suicide’s Note (Langston Hughes)
Flower in the Crannied Wall (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
To See a World in a Grain of Sand (William Blake)
Ars Poetica (Archibald MacLeish)
4th week: The Man He Killed (Thomas Hardy)
Is My Team Plowing (A. E. Housman)
Break of Day (John Donne)
Death, Be not Proud (John Donne)
Mirror (Sylvia Plath)
5th week: In-class Writing Exercise
6th week: A Hymn to God the Father (John Donne)
Desert Places (Robert Frost)
When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth (William Shakespeare)
35/10 (Sharon Olds)
Ethics (Linda Pastan)
7th week: Meeting at Night (Robert Browning)
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter (Robert Bly)
I Felt a Funeral in My Brain (Emily Dickinson)
Those Winter Sundays (Robert Hayden)
The Snow Man (Wallace Stevens)
8th week: Midterm Examination
9th week: Harlem (Langston Hughes)
Bereft (Robert Frost)
The Sick Rose (William Blake)
Bright Star (John Keats)
Metaphors (Sylvia Plath)
Introduction to Poetry (Billy Collins)
10th week: The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
A Noiseless Patient Spider (Walt Whitman)
The Lightening Is a Yellow Fork (Emily Dickinson)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Robert Herrick)
Fire and Ice (Robert Frost)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Emily Dickinson)
11th week: Much Madness Is Divinest Sense (Emily Dickinson)
Barbie Doll (Marge Piercy)
The Chimney Sweeper (William Blake)
London (William Blake)
Ozymandias (Percy Bysshe Shelly)
Batter My Heart, Three-personed God (John Donne)
12th week: On His Blindness (John Milton)
My Son the Man (Sharon Olds)
The Parable of the Good Seed (Mathew 13:24)
Siren Song (Margret Atwood)
Leda and the Swan (William Butler Yeats)
13th week: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
The Rhodora : On Being Asked (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I Never Saw a Moor (Emily Dickinson)
“Faith” Is a Fine Invention (Emily Dickinson)
Apparently with No Surprise (Emily Dickinson)
14th week: Since There’s No Help (Michael Drayton)
My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (William Shakespeare)
Crossing the Bar (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
‘Twas Warm—at First—Like Us (Emily Dickinson)
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
15th week: Dover Beach (Mathew Arnold)
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (William Shakespeare)
Richard Cory (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
Richard Cory (Paul Simon)
Nothing Gold Can Stay (Robert Frost)
16th week: The Aim Was Song (Robert Frost)
Lonely Hearts (Wendy Cope)
Sound and Sense (Alexander Pope)
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died (Emily Dickinson)
17th week: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (John Keats)
The Time of Year (William Shakespeare)
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be (John Keats)
Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon (Li Po)
Drinking Alone by Moonlight (Arthur Waley)
18th week: Final Examination