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ISTANBUL GELİŞİM UNIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM

ENGLISH POETRY COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
ELL206 ENGLISH POETRY 4 3 3 6

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY
Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 - Introduction to the course- Approaches to poetry (general overview)- Development of English poetry through time Lecture & Discussion
2 Reading the Material Assigned 16th century poetry Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey “The Means to Attain a Happy Life” Edmund Spencer “Easter” Christopher Marlowe “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” Lecture & Discussion
3 Reading the Material Assigned William Shakespeare’s Poems Sonnet 116 “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Sonnet 71 “No longer mourn for me when I am dead” Lecture & Discussion
4 Reading the Material Assigned Ben Johnson “Still to be neat…” George Herbert “The Altar” Robert Herrick “Delight in Disorder” Lecture & Discussion
5 Reading the Material Assigned Metaphysical Poetry John Donne “The Flea” Andrew Marvell “To his Coy Mistress” Lecture & Discussion
6 Reading the Material Assigned Milton’s “Paradise Lost” Alexander Pope and the 18th Century- “The Rape of the Lock” Lecture & Discussion
7 Reading the Material Assigned The Romantic Poets- 19th Century William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”, “Songs of Experience” “The sick Rose”, “Chimney Sweeper”, “A poison Tree” Lecture & Discussion
8 Reading the Material Assigned William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Introduction to “Lyrical Ballads” “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “Kubla Khan” Lecture & Discussion
9 Reading the Material Assigned Percy Bysshe Shelly “Ozymandias” John Keats “To Autumn” and “Ode to a Grecian Urn” Lecture & Discussion
10 - MID-TERM EXAM -
11 Reading the Material Assigned Victorian poetry Robert Browning “My Last Duchess” Christina Rosetti “Remember” Gerald Manly Hopkins “God’s Grandeur” Lecture & Discussion
12 Reading the Material Assigned War poets Wilfred Owen “The Chances” Walt Whitman “Come up from the fields father” Ted Hughes “Bayonet Charge” Lecture & Discussion
13 Reading the Material Assigned Modern Poetry William Butler Yeats “No Second Troy” and “Sailing to Byzantium” W.H. Auden “The Unknown Citizen” Lecture & Discussion
14 Reading the Material Assigned T.S Eliot “The Waste Land” Sylvia Plath “Mirror” and “Daddy” Lecture & Discussion
15 Reading the Material Assigned Revision Lecture & Discussion
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -