Description: ( NOTE: Items marked with * are new.) 1. Introduction: Reading, Responding to, and Writing about Literature. I. READING AND WRITING ABOUT FICTION. 2. Fiction: An Overview. Stories for Study Gaius Petronius, The Widow of Ephesus. Laurie Colwin, * An Old-Fashioned Story. Tim O''Brien, * The Things They Carried. Alice Walker, Everyday Use. Joy Williams, Taking Care. 3. Plot and Structure: The Development and Organization of Stories. Stories for Study: Stephen Crane, The Blue Hotel. Jamaica Kincaid, *What I Have Been Doing Lately. Eudora Welty, A Worn Path. Tom Whitecloud, Blue Winds Dancing. 4. Characters: The People in Fiction. Stories for Study: Willa Cather, * Paul''s Case. William Faulkner, Barn Burning. Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers. Amy Tan, * Two Kinds. 5. Point of View: The Position or Stance of the Narrator or Speaker. Stories for Study: Sherwood Anderson, I''m a Fool. Ambrose Bierce, * An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Shirley Jackson, The Lottery. Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill. Lorrie Moore, How To Become A Writer. 6. Setting: The Background of Place, Objects, and Culture in Stories. Stories for Study: Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street. Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Portable Phonograph. Joanne Greenberg, And Sarah Laughed . Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl. Edgar Allan Poe, * The Cask of Amontillado 7. Style: The Words That Tell the Story. Stories for Study: Ernest Hemingway, Soldier''s Home. Alice Munro, The Found Boat. Frank O''Connor, First Confession. Mark Twain, Luck. John Updike, A & P. 8. Tone: The Expression of Attitude in Fiction. Stories for Study: Margaret Atwood, Rape Fantasies. Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour. John Collier, The Chaser. Jack Hodgins, * The Concert Stages of Europe. Americo Paredes, The Hammon and the Beans. 9. Symbolism and Allegory: Keys to Extended Meaning. Stories for Study: Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes. Anonymous, The Myth Of Atalanta. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown. St. Luke, The Parable of the Prodigal Son. John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums. Michel Tremblay, * The Thimble. 10. Idea or Theme: The Meaning and the Message in Fiction. Stories for Study: Ernest J. Gaines, The Sky Is Gray. James Joyce, Araby. D.H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer''s Daughter. Irene Zabytko, Home Soil . 11. A Career in Fiction: A Collection of Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. (Stories of Poe Arranged in Chronological Order.) * The Fall of the House of Usher. (1839) The Masque of the Red Death. (1842) * The Black Cat. (1843) * The Purloined Letter. (1844) 12. Stories for Additional Study. Tony Cade Bambara, Raymond''s Run. Robert Olen Butler, * Snow. Raymond Carver, * Neighbors. Stephen Dixon, All Gone. Andre Dubus, The Curse. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper. Margaret Laurence, * The Loons. Doris Lessing, The Old Chief Mshlanga. Flannery O''Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing. Grace Paley, Goodbye, and Good Luck. Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. II. READING AND WRITING ABOUT POETRY. 13. Meeting Poetry: An Overview. Poems for Study: Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop for Death. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed. Joy Harjo, * Eagle Poem. A.E. Housman, Loveliest of Trees. Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. Louis MacNeice, Snow. Jim Northrup, Ogichidag. Naomi Shihab Nye, Where Children Live. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 55: Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments. James Wright, Two Hangovers. 14. Character and Setting: Who, What, Where, and When in Poetry. Anonymous, Western Wind. Anonymous, Bonny George Campbell. Ben Jonson, Drink to Me, Only, with Thine Eyes. Ben Jonson, To the Reader. Setting and Character in Poetry. Poems for Study: Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach. William Blake, London. Robert Browning, My Last Duchess. Louise Glck, * Snowdrops. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Thomas Hardy, The Walk. Thomas Hardy, Channel Firing. C. Day Lewis, Song. Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Marge Piercy, Wellfleet Sabbath. Al Purdy, * Poem. Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph''s Reply to the Shepherd. Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol. Jane Shore, A Letter Sent to Summer. Maura Stanton, Childhood. James Wright, A Blessing. 15. Words: The Building Blocks of Poetry. Robert Graves, The Naked and the Nude. Poems for Study: William Blake, The Lamb. Robert Burns, Green Grow the Rashes, O. Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky. John Donne, Holy Sonnet 14, Batter My Heart. Richard Eberhart The Fury of Aerial Bombardment. Thomas Gray, Sonnet on the Death of Richard West. Carolyn Kizer, Night Sounds Maxine Kumin, Hello, Hello Henry. Henry Reed, Naming of Parts. Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory. Theodore Roethke, Dolor. Stephen Spender, * I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great. Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O''Clock. Mark Strand, Eating Poetry. 16. Imagery: The Poem''s Link to the Senses. John Masefield, Cargoes. Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth. Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish. Poems for Study: William Blake, The Tyger. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, * Sonnets from the Portugese, No 14: If Thou Must Love Me. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan. Richard Crashaw, On Our Crucified Lord. H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Heat. T.S. Eliot, Preludes. George Herbert, The Pulley. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring. Denise Levertov, * A Time Past. P.K. Page, * Photos of a Salt Mine. Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130: My Mistress'' Eyes. David Wojahn, "It''s Only Rock and Roll, But I Like It." 17. Rhetorical Figures: A Source of Depth and Range in Poetry. John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman''s Homer. Other Rhetorical Figures. John Keats, Bright Star. John Gay, Let Us Take the Road. Poems for Study: Elizabeth Bishop, Rain Towards Morning. Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose. John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. T.S. Eliot, Eyes That Last I Saw in Tears. Langston Hughes, Harlem. John Keats, To Autumn. Jane Kenyon, * Portrait of a Figure near Water. Henry King, Sic Vita. Judith Minty, Conjoined. Ogden Nash, Exit, Pursued by a Bear. Marge Piercy, A Work of Artifice. Sylvia Plath, Metaphors. Muriel Rukeyser, * Looking at Each Other. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30: When to the Sessions. Diane Wakoski, Inside Out. Walt Whitman, * Facing West from California''s Shores. William Wordsworth, London, 1802. Sir Thomas Wyatt, I Find No Peace. 18. Tone: The Creation of Attitude in Poetry. Cornelius Whur, The First-Rate Wife. Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est. Thomas Hardy, The Workbox. Alexander Pope, Epigram from the French. Alexander Pope, Epigram, Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I gave to his Royal Highness. Poems for Study: Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book. Lucille Clifton, homage to my hips. e.e. cummings, she being Brand/-new. Mari Evans, I Am a Black Woman. Langston Hughes, Theme for English B. X.J. Kennedy, John while swimming in the ocean. Sharon Olds, * The Planned Child. Michael Ondaatje, * Late Movies with Skyler. Alexander Pope, from Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I. Salvatore Quasimodo, Auschwitz. Theodore Roethke, My Papa''s Waltz. C.K. Williams, * Dimensions. 19. Prosody: Sound, Rhythm, and Rhyme in Poetry. Poems for Study: Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool. Emily Dickinson, To Hear an Oriole Sing. John Donne, The Sun Rising.

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