English 201: Introduction to Literature Spring 2022 [Conway]
English 201: Introduction to Literature Spring 2022 [Conway]

Week 12

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

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

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. In ancient Greece lyric poems were sung to the music of a stringed instrument called a lyre. Today, however, a lyric poem is generally considered to be a short poem, expressed in vivid language and imagery, which conveys the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.

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.

Activity 5

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

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 6

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

Activity 7

Final Draft Essay due: Sunday, May 1, 11:59 p.m.

In this class, you have been developing one single research essay over the course of the 15-week semester.

For the final draft of your research essay, you will be incorporating your secondary source(s) into the corrected version of your first draft essay. Please be sure that your secondary source information is relevant to and supports your thesis (point of comparison between the two works of literature). Click here to access Final Draft essay directions.

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

Format Matters video

Format Illustration

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

Activity 7

Please click this link to access the Week 12 Discussion Board.