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| ELL3027 | British Poetry | 4+0+0 | ECTS:5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 4 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Arş. Gör. Özlem ÇAKMAKOĞLU | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | ? Trying to create an understanding of reading and analyzing a poem.
? Improving theoretical knowledge and merging it into analytical thinking.
? Learning to assess and utilize primary sources of mainstream movements.
? Getting familiar with the leading poets and important figures of British literature.
? Distinguishing between poetic language and standard or everyday language.
? Constructing clear, concise, and well-written reflection papers on poems analyzed during the classes. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Read, analyze, and interpret poetry as a literary genre | 2,4,5 | 1 | | LO - 2 : | Have control of the poetic language | 2,4,5,14 | 1 | | LO - 3 : | Learn literary devices used in poetry | 5 | 1 | | LO - 4 : | Translate poetry | 14 | 1 | | LO - 5 : | Understand the importance of intonation | | | | LO - 6 : | Get familiar with the leading poets and important figures of British literature. | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| In this course, students will delve into the structure of poetry, including its language, types, elements, and functions. They will analyze the various factors that influence British poetry including social, cultural, psychological, environmental, historical, and political backgrounds from Beowulf to Shakespeare and Chaucer to Tennyson. Besides, the students will cover the chronological order of British poetry from Old English to the Postmodern Periods. Additionally, they will explore some literary terms concerning poem analysis. Lastly, they will discuss literary movements and basic theoretical approaches in British poetry. To sum up, throughout the course, the students will examine the period's interactions and developments in terms of thematic and chronological ways. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction & Syllabus
a. Definition of Poet, Poem, and the History of Poetry
b. Function of Poetry in Literature
c. Fundamental Steps for Reading a Poem
d. Basic Literary Devices to Analyze a Poem
e. Form and Structural Elements of Poetry as a Literary Genre | | | Week 2 | a. Archaic Personal Pronouns
b. Common Types of Poetry
c. Samples and Analysis
d. The Chronological Order of British Poetry | | | Week 3 | a. The Roman English Period (1-450)
b. The Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period (450?1066)
c. Analysis of "Beowulf" by Anonymous
d. Analysis of Hymn by Cædmon | | | Week 4 | a. The Middle/Anglo-Norman English Period (1066?1500)
b. Analysis of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by Anonymous
c. Analysis of "General Prologue" from "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer | | | Week 5 | a. The Renaissance (1500?1660)
b. Analysis of Sonnet 130 ?My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun? by William Shakespeare
c. Analysis of Amoretti XXX ?My Love Is Like to Ice, and I to Fire? by Edmund Spenser
d. Analysis of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne | | | Week 6 | a. The Neoclassical Period (1660?1798)
b. Analysis of "Ode on Solitude" by Alexander Pope
c. Analysis of "Happy the Man" by John Dryden
d. Analysis of "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope | | | Week 7 | a. The Romantic Period (1798?1832)
b. Analysis of Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
c. Analysis of The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d. Analysis of The World Is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth | | | Week 8 | a. The Victorian Period (1832?1901)
b. Analysis of The Lady of Shalott by Lord Alfred Tennyson
c. Analysis of Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
d. Analysis of Remember by Christina Rossetti | | | Week 9 | VISA EXAM
| | | Week 10 | Alfred Tennyson:In Memoriam
Robert Browning:My Last Duchess | | | Week 11 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee?
Matthew Arnod: Dover Beach | | | Week 12 | The Twentieth Century: The social and literary background of the age | | | Week 13 | Thomas Hardy: Hap,The Darkling Thrush
Gerard Manley Hopkins:Thou art indeed just Lord | | | Week 14 | Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est,Futility
William Butler Yeats: Leda And The Swan,The Second Coming,Sailing to Byzantium | | | Week 15 | T.S.Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | David Hopkins, The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets: Poetic Responses to English Poetry from Chaucer to Yeats, Routledge, London 1994. | | | 2 | Hugh Kenner, The Art of Poetry, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Canada 1959. | | | 3 | Ian Hamilton (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English, Oxford University Press, Oxford; 1994. | | | 4 | John Garret, British Poetry since the Sixteenth Century, MacMillan, London 1986. | | | 5 | John Lennard, The Poetry Handbook, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005. | | | 6 | John McRae, The Language of Poetry, Routledge, London 1998. | | | 7 | John Peck and Martin Coyle, Literary Terms and Criticism, Palgrave MacMillan, New York 2002. | | | 8 | Louis George Alexander, Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students, Longmans, Malta 1969. | | | 9 | Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy (eds.), The Norton Anthology of Poetry 5th Edition, W. W. Norton & Company, London 2005. | | | 10 | Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary K. Ruby (eds.), Poetry for Students, Gale Research, Michigan 1997. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 14 | 70 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 1 | 6 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Proje | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 12 | 12 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 206 |
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