19th Century British Poetry
19C 낭만주의 영시 / EL2131
This class is an introduction to poetry and poetic devices, with emphasis on the reading and analysis of six major Romantic poets and their works.
Textbook:
There is no prescribed textbook. Relevant poems will be provided.
Assessment Weight:
Midterm Exam = 15%
Final Exam = 15%
Attendance = 10%
Class Participation & Activities = 30%
Homework & Assignements = 30%
Total = 100%
Tentative Lecture Plan
Week 1
Introduction: What is Poetry?
Contextualization: Late 18th and early 19th centuries -- Romaticism
Week 2
William Blake
Week 3
William Blake
Week 4
William Wordsworth
Week 5
William Wordsworth
Week 6
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Week 7
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Week 8
Midterm Examination
Week 9
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Week 10
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Week 11
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Week 12
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Week 13
John Keats
Week 14
John Keats
Week 15
Final Examination
Poetic Devices to Be Covered
Poetic Types:
Lyrics, Epics, Balads, Dramatic
Poetic Forms:
Closed Forms, Open Forms
Figures of Speech:
Denotations & Connotations, Symbolism, Imagery, Apostrophe, Personification, Simile, Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Hyperbole / Overstatement & Understatement, Oxymoron
Sound:
Rhythm (Stresses & Pauses), Meter (Feet / Scansion), Alliteration & Assonance, Rhyme (End Rhyme & Internal Rhyme, Masculine Rhyme & Feminine Rhyme)
Literary Devices:
Topics vs Themes, Allusions & Intertextuality, Tone, Voice (Narrator & Persona), Archetype, Myth, Irony, Parallelism & Repetition, Narative Layers, Liminality
Further Skills:
Paraphrasing a poem, Analyzing a poem