Activity 1
Click this link to review a brief introduction to poetry.
Authored by: Tom Chester. Provided by: Ivy Tech Community College. License: CC BY: Attribution
Activity 2
Click this link for a helpful and insightful article on the American Academy of Poets, “How to Read a Poem”
Activity 3
Please watch this short video, which explains the difference between English and Italian sonnets and discusses common themes that are usually the subject of these highly structured poems.
Activity 4
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Please enjoy an interactive reading of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.”
Activity 5
Click this link to access Sonnet Number 130, “My Mistress’s Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun” by William Shakespeare.
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https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/my-mistress-eyes-are-nothing-sun-sonnet-130
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Activity 6
Click here for a short lecture on Sonnet 130, “My Mistress’s Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun.”
Click this link to access the Italian sonnet, “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the Commonlit website.
Click this link to a commercial poem that contrasts in quality to the sonnet above. As a student of literature, how would you compare/contrast the greeting card lyrics to the Browning sonnet? What differentiates them from each other?
Activity 8
Click this link to access a reading of the Italian sonnet, “What My Lips Have Kissed and Why and When” by Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
Activity 9
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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.
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Activity 10
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.
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Activity 11
Click this link for my video lecture on “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning.
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Activity 12
Click this link to access the poem “White Lies” by Natasha Tretheway. This is an example of a narrative poem.
Activity 14
Please read “We Real Cool” and “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Activity 16
Quiz 4
This is a 10-question multiple-choice quiz, which tests your knowledge about the conventions of ancient Greek theater, as well as your understanding of the drama Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Students have 90 minutes to complete the quiz, which must be done in one sitting. Quiz will be available from 9:00 a.m., Monday, June 20 through 11:59 p.m., June 25. Once the quiz has closed, it will become unavailable and unviewable. Quizzes will not be reopened.
To access the quiz, navigate to your Blackboard course. On the dark grey navigation panel to the left, click “Links to Quizzes.” Then click “Quiz 5.”
Activity 17
Click here to access the Week 4 discussion.
Activity 18
Click here to read the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson.
