Syllabus - Exploring Poetry.docx

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Program Studi Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris

Fakultas Pendidikan Bahasa dan Seni Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Course: Exploring Poetry

Code: IG 315

Chs: 2 Chs

Semester: 3

Prerequisite: Students taking this course are required to have satisfactorily completed Foundation of Literature course with a minimun grade of C.

Lecturer: Eki Qushay Akhwan

Objectives

Upon completing the course, students are expected to be able to understand the different elements that build a poem, explore its subject matter with sufficient depth, appreciate poetry as a literary genre, and become an informed reader who can express their opinions about a poem with the level of sophistication that is expected of a language-major student.

Course Description

The course guides the students to explore, discuss, and appreciate the

complexity of poems as a literary genre and develops their ability to analyse and interpret poetry. It is geared towards appreciating poetry through understanding the elements that build it, such as the choice of diction, the use of figurative language, sounds and rhythms, symbolism and allusions, etc. The understanding of how these elements work in a poem is expected to equip the students with the necessary tools to be able to read, interpret, and discuss poems with enough sophistication that is expected of a language-major student.

Learning Activities

- Exposure, modeling, and exposition: Students are presented with a poem

and are guided with questions and exposition to recognize the element(s) that the instructor wants them to focus on and how it/they work in the text.

- Group work guided practice: Students are given a different poem to

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- Whole class guided practice: Different groups of students discuss and

contribute their understanding of the text and how a particular element or set of elements work in the said text that they have discussed in groups.

- Independent practice: Students are given an assignment to read a poem

and write a short response paper based on their reading and understanding of the text.

- To support all the above activities, students are required to independently

read the listed chapters of the text books and other relevant sources.

Media

- Laptop, LCD Projector, Whiteboard Evaluation and Grading

Grading elements:

- Assignment Journal 10%

- Response papers (2 x 15%) 30%

- Midterm test 30%

- Final test 30%

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TOTAL 100%

Grading scale:

A 86 - 100

B 71 - 85

C 56 - 70

D 41 - 55

E < - 40

Weekly Syllabus Sessi

on

Topics Sources

1 Introduction to the course and

syllabus; an overview of poetry. 1. Syllabus and course outline handout

2. Poems: An

Indonesian poem of choice (to be informed later), Hope (Lisel Mueller)

3. Robert, Edgard P. and Henry Jacobs (2004, ch. 13, pp. 609 – 619)

2 The words and diction of poetry 1. Poems: Of Being

(Denise Levertov), Hello, Hello Henry (Maxine Kumin) 2. Robert, Edgard P.

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(2004, ch. 14, pp. 635 – 642)

3 Character and setting 1. Poems: London

(William Blake) 2. Robert, Edgard P.

and Henry Jacobs (2004, ch. 15, pp. 664 – 670)

4 Imagery 1. Poems: Sonnet

130: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (William

Shakespeare), If You Love for The Sake of Beauty (Friedrick Ruckert) 2. Robert, Edgard P.

5 Figures of Speech 1. Poems: Sonnet

18: Shall I

Compare Thee to A Summer’s Day? (William

Shakespeare), Remember (Joy Harjo)

6 Tone and The Creation of Attitude in

Poetry

1. Poems: Theme for English B

(Langston Hughes), My Papa’s Waltz (Theodore Roethke)

7 Consolidation and Response Paper

Modeling 1. Selected poems2. Handout

8 MID TERM TEST

9 Prosody: Sound, Rhythm, and

Rhyme in Poetry 1. Poems: To Hear An Oriole Sing

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10 Symbolism and Allusion 1. Poems: No

Coward Soul Is Mine (Emily Bronte)

11 Brief Introduction to Westn Myths:

Icarus, Phoenix, Oedipus, Pan 1. Online Sources

12 Myths: System of Symbolic Allusion

in Poetry 1. Poems: Selected poems for

different Western myths

13 Ideas and Theme in Poetry 1. Poems: Do You

Think ... (Robert Creely), True Love (Judith Viorst) 2. Robert, Edgard P.

14 Shape of The Poem 1. Selected poems

to illustrate different

shapes/forms of poetry

15 Consolidation and Review

16 FINAL TEST

References Main Text Book

Robert, Edgard P. and Henry Jacobs (Eds.). Reading and Writing about Poetry. (New York: Pierson Prentice Hall, 2004)

Supplementary Readings

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Elizabeth, Mary. Painless Poetry. (New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2001)

Farrell, Edmund James et al (Eds.). Exploring Life through Literature.

(Glenview, Illinois: Foresman and Company, 1973)

Pradopo, Rahmat Joko. Pengkajian Puisi. (Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1987)

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COURSE OUTLINE

SESSI

ONS TOPICS SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES LEARNING ACTIVITIES EVALUATION SOURCES

1

Introducti on to the course and syllabus; an overview of poetry

At the end of the session, students are expected to know the coverage of the course, have the general idea of and can explain what poetry is

- Lecturing - Discussion - Questions

and answers

- Questions and answers

 Syllabus and course outline handout

 Poems

 Robert, Edgard P. and Henry Jacobs (2004

2 The words and diction of poetry

Students are expected to be able to identify different kinds of diction used in poetry and discuss how they affect poems.

- Lecturing - Modeling - Discussion - Questions

and answers

- Questions and answers - Assignmen

t journal

 Robert, Edgard P. and Henry Jacobs (2004)

3 Character and Setting

Students are expected to be able to identify and discuss how characters and setting are embedded in a poem and how they affect the poem’s message.

and answers

t journal

4 Imagery

Students are expected to be able to identify and discuss how different kinds of imegery produce different effect s in poetry.

and answers

t journal

5

Tone and The Creation of Attitude in Poetry

Students are expected to be able to identify elements that convey poetic tones and discuss how a tone is created in a poem and the effect it has on the poem’s message.

and answers

t journal

6 Figures of_Speech

Students are expected to be able to identify different kinds of figures of speech in poetry and discuss how they expand meanings and affect the poem.

and answers

t journal

7 Consolida tion and Response Paper

Students are expected to be able to consolidate the knowledge they

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Modeling

have acquired and discuss a poem from different aspects they have learned thus far; students are expected to be able to write an

academically acceptable essay about a poem.

and

answers t journal (2004)

8 MID TERM TEST

9

Prosody: Sounds, Rhythm, and Rhymes in Poetry

Students are expected to be able to identify and discuss different elements of prosody and how they affect the poem.

and answers

t journal

10 Symbolism and Allusion

Students are expected to be able to identify and discuss symbolism and allusions embedded in a poem and how they affect the poem’s message.

and answers

t journal

11 Brief Introducti on to Western Myths

Students are expected to have the basic idea of prominent Western myths and idenfity their features and discuss their meanings.

- Independe nt

reading/libr ary and online research - Lecturing - Discussion - Questions

and answers

t journal

 Encycloped ia

 Online resources

12

Myths: System of Symbolic Allusion in Poetry

Students are expected to be able to identify elements of myths in a poem and discuss their meanings.

and answers

t journal

13 Ideas andTheme in Poetry

Students are expected to be able to identify general ideas and theme of a poem using the previous knowledge they have acquired in the course.

and answers

t journal

14 Shapes/Forms of Poetry

Students are expected to be able to identify shapes or forms of poetry and discuss their characteristics.

and answers

t journal

15 Consolidation and Review

Students are expected to be able to consolidate the knowledge they have acquired and discuss a poem from different aspects they have learned thus far.

and answers

t journal

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