Instructor: 朱崇儀 Chung-yi Chu (cychu@nchu.edu.tw; tel.: (O) 22840322-1029)
Instructor’s office & office hours: 人文大樓1029室; Mon. 15:00-17:00 p.m. or by appointment.
2/14 Ch. 8 Introduction to poetry (110/1 final review) Wordsworth, “[I wandered lonely as a cloud]”; Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”; Dickinson, “[The Sky is low—the Clouds are mean]”
2/21 Ch. 9 “Voice” or “persona” of the speaker Browning, “My Last Duchess” (590; 1103); Brooks, “We Real Cool” (438; 745); Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper” (589; 1025)
2/28 Holiday
3/07 Ch. 10 Situation and Setting Pastan, “To a Daughter Leaving Home” (615; 762); Donne, “The Flea” (454: 764); Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (455; 764)
3/14 Ch. 11 Theme and Tone Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” (465; 797); Auden, “[Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone]” (469; 802); Dickinson, “[My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—]” (596; 989)
3/21 Ch. 12 Language (diction and order) Olds, “Sex without Love” (481; 827); Blake, “London” (482; 801); Hopkins, “Pied Beauty” (482; 828)
3/28 Quiz 2; Ch. 13 Imagery and figures of speech Pastan, “Marks” (491; 838); Dickinson, “[Because I could not stop for Death—]” (492; 839);
4/04 Holiday
4/11 Shakespeare, “[Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?]” (498; 844); Ch. 14 Symbol Blake, “The Sick Rose” (508; 853) ;
4/18 Mid-term
4/25 Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (511; 856); Nemerov, “The Vacuum” (512; 857)
5/02 Ch. 15 Sounds (rhyme, meter, etc.) Pope, from The Rape of the Lock (520; 866); Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est” (531; 878); Ch. 16 Internal structure Mora, “Sonrisas” (536; 897); Heaney, “Punishment” (539; 900); Olds, “The Victims” (543; 904)
5/09 Online Ch. 17 External Form Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (559; 922); Bishop, “Sestina” (561; 925); Cummings, “[l(a]” (563; 926)
5/16 Quiz 3; Online Shakespeare, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"; “[Not marble, nor the gilded monuments]” (569; 934); Basho, “[A village without bells—] (588; 946); Pound, “In the Station of the Metro” (623; 947)
5/23 Introduction to Drama; Trifles (652; 1155)
5/30 Trifles
6/06
6/13 Final
(The first page number indicates its location in the portable 13th edition. The second one indicates its location in the shorter 12th edition.)
The Norton Introduction to Literature (the portable 13th edition). Ed. Kelly J. Mays. New York: W.W. Norton, 2019. Please also check https://digital.wwnorton.com/litweb for further practice.