ENG 201 | Introduction to Literature | Fall 2023 | Celeste Conway
ENG 201 | Introduction to Literature | Fall 2023 | Celeste Conway

Week 09

Painting of daydreaming young woman in blue dress on a backdrop of foliage.
https://uk.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_The_Day_Dream_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
CC by-SA-3.0

Click here to access Patricia Jackson’s poems, “Train to Brooklyn” and “My Muse”

Activity 1

Click this link for a good discussion entitled “How to Read a Poem” from Poets.org.

Provided by: Extended Learning Institute of Northern Virginia Community College. Located at: http://eli.nvcc.edu/. License: CC BY: Attribution

Activity 2

Trees and Marshland with Cloudy Grey sky
https://pixnio.com/media/marshland-swamp-field-grass-meadow
Public Domain CC0

Click this link to access “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” on the Poets.org website. Click the audio icon, and you will hear a very memorable and dramatic recitation of the poem by the author himself.

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is characterized as a lyric poem .

Click this link to read more about William Butler Yeats on the BMCC database Biography in Context.

OER source: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lake-isle-innisfree
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 

Portrait of beautiful young woman in regal 16th Century costume
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agnolo_Bronzino,_ritratto_di_Lucrezia_de%27_Medici.JPG
Public Domain

Activity 3

Click this link  to access the poem “My Last Duchess”
on on the Commonlit website. This is written as a monologue and is an example of a dramatic poem.

Or click this link.

Activity 4

Click this link for my video lecture on “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning.

Profile portrait of mixed race young woman
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joanna_Boyce_Wells_-_Head_of_a_Mulatto_Woman_(Mrs._Eaton)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Public domain

Activity 5

Click this link to access the poem “White Lies” by Natasha Tretheway. This is an example of a narrative poem.

Activity 6

Please read “We Real Cool”  and “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks.

Activity 7

Poetry Essay First Draft due: Sunday, November 5.

Click here for essay grading rubric. 

Click here for directions. Please follow directions carefully.

Click here to see how to cite correctly in a poetry essay.

All essays in this class must adhere to MLA format. Before submitting any written work, please review the guides to formatting. Only correctly formatted essays will be eligible for a grade of A. Please review the guides below.

Format Matters video

Format Illustration

Guide to MLA essay formatting from the BMCC library.

Guide to MLA citation from the BMCC library.

Click here for Citation Machine MLA citation generator.

To submit your essay, return to your Blackboard course and Essay Submission Links folder on the black navigation panel. Within the folder, click the subfolder labeled “Poetry Essay First Draft.”

Activity 7

Painting of fairy-like girl wearing garland of butterflies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Gengembre_Anderson
Public Domain

Please click this link to access the Week 9 Discussion Board.

Click here for information about How Discussion Boards Work.
Click here for information about How Discussion Boards Are Graded.