Seamus Heaney reading

http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/heaney/from_clearances_5.php
Follow this link to hear Heaney read one of the poems we will be using in class.

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Kathleen Turner in "Who's Afraid..."

http://www.calendarlive.com/stage/reviews/cl-et-virginiawoolf12feb12,0,1374256.story

This link will take you to an article on Kathleen Turner's role in the production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" that we will be seeing on the 25th.

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Webcast with Ted Kooser and John Prine

http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3677
Check out this site. It contains a webcast with Ted Kooser- the author of "Beer Bottle," the poem we examined in class today with the unfortunate cat- and folksinger John Prine.
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Help with poetry terms and concepts

Here are some sites that offer help in our study of poetry-
For a quick review of poetry terms;
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903237.html
http://www.poetry-online.org/poetry-terms.htm

For an explanation of metaphysical poetry;
http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/english/allen/donne2.htm

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Syllabus for February

February. Focus on Poetry. How do I analyze poetry?

“Could Not Stop” 671.

“Stopping in Woods” 673.

“Bright Star” exercise.

Sonnet in Pocket exercise.

Voices exercise.

Focus on Metaphysical and Romantics.

A Herrick- Pretty Baby 664

Julia’s Voice 863

To Virgin 1016

Herbert- Pulley 761

Virtue 916

Donne-Sonnet 14 731

Valediction 784

Sun Rising 860

Cannonization 946

Death Be Not Proud 1145

B Keats- Chapman’s Homer 777

Belle Dame 954

Bright Star 779

Grecian Urn 1018

Autumn 788

Nightingale 919

Shelley- West Wind 919

Ozymandius 925

Hopkins- Pied Beauty 1165

E. B. Browning- If Thou Must Love Me- 755

C Shakespeare-Sonnet 55 679

#130 767

#18 795

#30 795

#73 877

#116

#29 1197