Schedule

The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.

Th	January 11	Introduction
T	January 16	Robert Frost, "Mowing," "The Tuft of Flowers," "Mending Wall"
Th	January 18	Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man," "A Hundred Collars," "Home Burial"

T	January 23	Frost, "After Apple-Picking," "The Code," "The Wood-Pile"
Th	January 25	Langston Hughes, "Afro-American Fragment," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Negro," "Dream Variations," "Life Is Fine" Presentation sign-up deadline

T	January 30	Hughes, "The Weary Blues," "Sylvester's Dying Bed," "Early Evening Quarrel," "Midnight Raffle," "Mama and Daughter" Bring a working draft of the Poem Analysis to class for peer editing.
Th	February 1	Hughes, "Ballad of the Girl Whose Name Is Mud," "Silhouette," "Note on Commercial Theater," "Madam and Her Madam," "Madam's Calling Cards"

T	February 6	Quiz on Frost and Hughes Wallace Stevens, "Earthy Anecdote," "Sunday Morning"
Th	February 8	Stevens, "Six Significant Landscapes," "Anecdote of the Jar," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" Poem Analysis due in class

T	February 13	Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West," "A Postcard from the Volcano"
Th	February 15	Stevens, "Study of Two Pears," "A Primitive Like an Orb," "The Rock"

T	February 20	Elizabeth Bishop, "In the Waiting Room," "Crusoe in England"
Th	February 22	Bishop, "Night City," "The Moose," "12 O'Clock News," "Poem"

T	February 27	Bishop, "One Art," "The End of March," "Objects & Apparitions," "Five Flights Up"
Th	March 1	Midterm Examination

	March 5-9	Spring Break

T	March 13	Robert Lowell, "Beyond the Alps," "The Banker's Daughter," "Inauguration Day: January 1953"
Th	March 15	Lowell, "91 Revere Street"

T	March 20	Lowell, "My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow," "Commander Lowell," "Father's Bedroom," "Waking in the Blue" Research Paper proposal deadline
Th	March 22	Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke," "Skunk Hour"

T	March 27	Sylvia Plath, "The Manor Garden," "Two Views of a Cadaver Room," "Sow" Annotated bibliography due
Th	March 29	Plath, "The Colossus," "Lorelei," "All the Dead Dears," "The Thin People"

T	April 3	Plath, "Mushrooms," "I Want, I Want," "The Disquieting Muses," "The Burnt-out Spa"
Th	April 5	Quiz on Lowell and Plath Kay Ryan, "Odd Blocks," "The Edges of Time," "Train-Track Figure," "We're Building the Ship As We Sail It," "Stations"

T	April 10	Ryan, "Retroactive," "Shift," "Extraordinary Lengths," "Every Painting by Chagall," "Leaving Spaces" Peer-edit Research Paper
Th	April 12	Ryan, "Simply by Growing Larger," "To the Young Anglerfish," "Waste," "It's Always Darkest Just before the Dawn," "The Material"

T	April 17	Carol Muske-Dukes, The Invention of Your Face Research Paper due in class
Th	April 19	Muske-Dukes, Acceleration

T	April 24	Muske-Dukes, Pierce County, Suttee Goddess
Th	April 26	Muske-Dukes, Scout

Th	May 3	Final Exam, 10-11:50am