Cary Nelson Except as noted, all poems are in Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford).
All authors have web sites on MAPS. Before each class send a 1-2 page email to everyone commentating on the poetry and the MAPS analyses. This course combines canonical and non canonical poetry; it includes both weeks focused on individual poets and weeks devoted to broad topics that compare and contrast the work of different poets.
Week One: Cary Nelson, Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945 Week Two: ROBERT FROST: “Mending Wall,”The Road Not Taken,”The Hill Wife,”The Witch of Coos,”Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and the other poems from Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Week Three: GENDER AND MODERNITY, Part 1: Ezra Pound, “Portrait d’une Femme,”The River Merchant’s Wife,” Alternative Translations of “A River Merchant’s Wife” (MAPS), “Pound on Gender (MAPS) T. S. Eliot, “Portrait of a Lady” (MAPS) William Carlos Williams, “The Young Housewife” Edwin Arlington Robinson, “The Tree in Pamela’s Garden” John Crowe Ransom, “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter,”Dead Boy” Claude McKay, “The Harlem Dancer” Langston Hughes, “To the Dark Mercedes of ‘El Palacio de Amor'” Georgia Douglas Johnson, “”The Heart of a Woman,”Motherhood” Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “I Sit and Sew” Amy Lowell, “The Weather-Cock Points South,”Madonna of the Evening Flowers,”The Sisters” Genevieve Taggard, “Everyday Alchemy,”With Child” Lucia Trent, “Breed, Women Breed” Dorothy Parker, “Unfortunate Coincidence,”One Perfect Rose” Louise Bogan, “Cassandra,”Women,”Medusa Week Four: GENDER AND MODERNITY, Part 2: Counter Cullen, “Tableau” Hart Crane, “Episode of Hands” H. D. , “Eurydice,”Helen” Edna St.
The Term Paper on Hillary Commission Sport Gender Women
The essay will discuss whether Sport in New Zealand has had a positive influence on gender relations and does it creates opportunities for women? The discussion will focus on information from research, readings and personal experiences. Gender is a social phenomenon which shapes our sense of personal identity, the nature of our everyday interactions with others and the sets of social relations ...
Vincent Millay, “I Being Born a Woman and Distressed,”Love is Not Blind,”Well, I Have Lost You,”Sonnets from an Un grafted Tree” Marianne Moore, “Marriage” Mina Loy, “Songs to Johannes” Gertrude Stein, “Patriarchal Poetry” Week Five: T. S. ELIOT: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Pru frock,”Gerontion,” The Waste Land, “The Hollow Men,”Journey of the Magi,”Burnt Norton” Week Six: WALLACE STEVENS: “Sea Surface Full of Clouds,””Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,”Anecdote of the Jar,”The Snow Man,”Peter Quince at the Clavier,”Sunday Morning,”Mozart, 1935,”The Plain Sense of Things,”Of Mere Being,” and the other poems in Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
Week Seven: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: “Portrait of a Lady,”The Great Figure,”Spring and All,”To Elsie,”The Red Wheelbarrow,”Young Sycamore,” The Descent of Winter, “Proletarian Portrait,”The Yachts,”Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” Week Eight: RACE AND MODERNITY, Part 1: Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask” Carl Sandburg, “Nigger,”Man the Man-Hunter,”Elizabeth Ump stead” Vac hel Lindsay, “The Congo” James Weldon Johnson, “The White Witch” Jean To omer, “Portrait in Georgia” Anne Spencer, “White Things” Langston Hughes, “White Shadows” Angelina Weld Grimke, “Tenebris,”The Black Finger,”Fragment” Claude McKay, “The White City,”Lynching,”Outcast,”Mulatto,”To the White Fiends” Hart Crane, “Black Tambourine” Week Nine: RACE AND MODERNITY, Part 2: Kay Boyle, “A Communication to Nancy Cunard” Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,”Negro,” Mulatto,”The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (MAPS) John Beecher, “Beaufort Tides” Sterling A. Brown, “Scotty Has His Say,”Slim in Atlanta,”Slim in Hell,”Old Lem,”Sharecroppers,”Choices” Sol Funaroff, “Goin Mah Own Road” Lucia Trent, “Black Men” V. J. Jerome, “A Negro Mother to Her Child” Angel Island Poems Melvin B.
The Essay on Invisible Man Ellison Howe Negro
I agree with Irving Howe, that the Invisible Man is a novel based on the journey and experiences of an unnamed Negro man during contemporary America, and he is in search of success, companionship, and himself. Howe says that, 'The beginning is a nightmare,' because it begins with a black timid boy who is awarded a scholarship and sent to the South and invited to a ballroom with other black boys ...
T olson, “Dark Symphony” Week Ten: LANGSTON HUGHES: “The Weary Blues,”The Cat and the Saxophone,”Justice,”Fire,”Three Songs about Lynching,”Goodbye Christ,”Park Bench,”The Bitter River,”Ku Klux,”Shakespeare in Harlem,”Madam and the Phone Bill,”Harlem,”The Backlash Blues” Week Eleven: POETRY, POLITICS, AND THE 1030 s: Background reading: “About the Great Depression”: MAPS John Beecher, “Report to the Stockholders” Edwin Rolfe, “Asbestos,”Season of Death” Joseph Kala r, “Paper mill” Genevieve Taggard, “Up Street-Depression Summer,” Mill Town” Langston Hughes, “Come to the Waldorf-Astoria,”Let America Be America Again,”Ballad of Roosevelt” Richard Wright, “We of the Streets” Sol Funaroff, “The Man at the Factory Gates” Louis Zukofsky, “Mantis” Kenneth Fearing, “Dirge,”Denouement,” Tillie Olsen, ” I Want You Women Up North to Know” Week Twelve: MURIEL RUKEYSER: “The Book of the Dead,”The Minotaur,”To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century,”Rite” Week Thirteen: HART CRANE: “October-November,”Chaplinesque,”Porphyry in Akron,”Voyages,”The Mango Tree,” from The Bridge: “Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge,”Ave Maria,”The River,”Cape Hatteras,”Atlantis” Week Fourteen: MARIANNE MOORE: “Poetry,”The Fish,”Sojourn in the Whale,”A Grave,”Silence,”An Octopus,”No Swan So Fine,”The Pangolin,”The Paper Nautilus,”Spenser’s Ireland” Week Fifteen: EZRA POUND: “A Pact,”In a Station of the Metro,” from The Cantos: “I, IX, XLV, LXXXI, CXVI, “Notes.” Please be sure to read all entries on MAPS, including “On Pound and Malatesta.” Take the photo tour of Malatesta’s Tempo on MAPS. Week Sixteen: WORLD WAR II: Background reading: “About World War II”: MAPS Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,”A Front,”Losses,”Second Air Force,”Protocols” Joy David man, “For the Nazis” Edna St. Vincent Millay, “I Forgot for a Moment” Japanese American Concentration Camp Haiku Edwin Rolfe, “First Love” (Background: “About the Spanish Civil War,” MAPS) Robinson Jeffers, “Fantasy” Thomas McGrath, “Crash Report” Gwendolyn Brooks, “Gay Chaps at the Bar” 357.
The Term Paper on Why Japan Went To War?
... tensions into a full-scale crisis. Lesson 3 Background By 1940 the Japanese war against China—euphemistically referred to in Tokyo as ... Japanese army launched a full-scale offensive. Within a few weeks the Japanese had captured the Chinese cities of Peking, Tientsin, ... -1930. Students turn then to examine through primary documents and maps why Japan embarked on its policy of aggression against China, ...
