ENG2003: Introduction to Poetry

Hi Everyone,

Please keep working on your final assignment. I am extending the deadline for this essay till Monday, Dec. 20. If you get your essay loaded on to googledocs before this, I’m happy to review it for you. Email me at mnoonan@citytech.cuny.edu regarding any questions.

As a reminder, for your final essay assignment, I ask that you choose a poet from the Poetry Foundation website and discuss 2-3 of his or her poems in cultural and/or biographical context. Alternately, choose 2-3 from on the the site’s interesting collections.

Here is a sample student essay: HERE

Upload your essay: HERE

Recommended Collections:

Poems of Protest

Native American Poetry

LatinX Poetry

LGBTQ Poetry

Poems of Islamic Culture

Poetry and Feminism

Langston Hughes Biography

Modernist Art Sells For Millions

Robert Frost

Biography

TheRoadNotTaken

ASSIGNMENT REMINDER:

Formal Assignment #1: Personal Poetry Collection (with reflections)

Assemble your selected poems and edited posts into a single file.

Title: “YOURLASTNAMEPoetryCollection”

Upload a draft of this assignment to our GoogleDrive by this week.

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1. Robin Williams in Dead Poet’s Society (students recite Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain”)

2. An Introduction to Modernism

3. GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR “LOVE SONG”

4. Modernist Journals Project

5. HOMEWORK: Post a 1-2 paragraph response to a poem by a Modern Poet or a Modern Magazine that interests you. Feel free to choose a poet from the Harlem Renaissance or from elsewhere on the Poetry Foundation Site. This will be due in two weeks (Tues. 11/23). Eventually this will become Assignment #2.

EXTRA CREDIT EVENT:

Consider attending “The Soho Memory Project” discussion (Tues. 11/16 1-2 pm)

A discussion on Zoom of the SoHo Memory Project Documentary with City Tech Professor Josh Kapusinski (COMD, Moving Pixels Club), Jonathan Baez (City Tech alum and cinematographer), and Or Szyflingier (alum and director).

Consider reviewing the accompanying article and video:

• Kyle Spencer, “The Memory-Keeper of SoHo” (2015)
• Or Szyflingier and Jonathan Baez, “The SoHo Memory Project” (2020)

I will offer extra credit for attending this event.

EVENT ZOOM LINK: 

Preserving and Telling a New York Story (Tues., Nov 16 1-2pm)https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87040228416?pwd=UnNHMzRSSU1IQzVhZXoxWkZHZUg3UT09

Meeting ID: 870 4022 8416

Passcode: 175967

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ASSIGNMENT REMINDER:

Formal Assignment #1: Personal Poetry Collection (with reflections)

Assemble your selected poems and edited posts into a single file.

Title: “YOURLASTNAMEPoetryCollection”

Upload a draft of this assignment to our GoogleDrive by Tues., Nov. 9

Include:

1. Edward Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem” (Comment on One Section)
2. Your response to a selection from Robert Pinsky’s “Favorite Poem Project”
3. Mad-Lib Metaphor Poem
4. Response to a Shakespearian Sonnet (include the poem)
5. Response to a “Romantic” Poem (include the poem)
6. Response to a poem or selection from Walt Whitman
7. Response to a poem by Emily Dickinson (include poem)
8. Response to a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
9. Substitute one of the above with a response to a poem by Phyliss Wheatley, Rumi, and/or Arooj Aftab

USE YOUR OWN VOICE DRAWING FROM LESSONS LEARNED FROM THIS CLASS

For a review of poetic devices see: Elements of Poetry 

Here are the readings:

Edward Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem”  (in 16 brief sections)

Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project 

“Learning About Figurative Language” (for “Metaphor Mad-Lib” poem) 

Shakespeare 101

The Romantic Poets

Declaration of Independence

Phyliss Wheatley

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe

Documentary: “In Search of Walt Whitman”

Last week ,we read the biography of world-reknown, Brooklyn poet Walt Whitman and reviewed some of his work. Whitman’s influence on modern poets is omnipresent. Here, for example, is a new poem by Billie Collins published this month in The Atlantic Magazine: “Ode to Joy”

For this class (and next), let’s discuss the equally impressive poets: Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe.

Here is Poe’s “The Raven”  (read by Christopher Lee)

Interestingly, Poe spent his last years in the Bronx in a cottage that remains a museum (and a great place to visit).  Please watch this video of his years there.

Watch: Stevie Nicks sings Poe’s “Annabel Lee”

Formal Assignment #1: Personal Poetry Collection (with reflections)

Assemble your selected poems and edited posts into a single file.

Title: “YOURLASTNAMEPoetryCollection”

Upload a draft of this assignment to our GoogleDrive by Tues., Nov. 9

Include:

1. Edward Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem” (Comment on One Section)
2. Your response to a selection from Robert Pinsky’s “Favorite Poem Project”
3. Mad-Lib Metaphor Poem
4. Response to a Shakespearian Sonnet (include the poem)
5. Response to a “Romantic” Poem (include the poem)
6. Response to a poem or selection from Walt Whitman
7. Response to a poem by Emily Dickinson (include poem)
8. Response to a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
9. Substitute one of the above with a response to a poem by Phyliss Wheatley, Rumi, and/or Arooj Aftab

USE YOUR OWN VOICE DRAWING FROM LESSONS LEARNED FROM THIS CLASS

For a review of poetic devices see: Elements of Poetry 

Here are the readings:

Edward Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem”  (in 16 brief sections)

Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project 

“Learning About Figurative Language” (for “Metaphor Mad-Lib” poem) 

Shakespeare 101

The Romantic Poets

Declaration of Independence

Phyliss Wheatley

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe

Documentary: “In Search of Walt Whitman”

If you haven’t done so yet, please post a response to a poem from the Romantic Tradition. See full assignment details in my previous post.

By Tuesday, Oct 12, please complete the following viewings and readings, which show the influence of Persian poet Rumi on Brooklyn-based poet and musician: Arooj Aftab.

View: Brooklyn Based Pakistani Poet

Read: Biography and Poem by Rumi

“Last Night” by Rumi

Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently he whispered,
“Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
it is wrapped in silence”.

Whirling Dervishes of Damascus

Watch: “Last Night My Beloved”

 “Beauty is truth–truth beauty–that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.” From “Ode to a Grecian Urn” by John Keats.

For next week, I ask that you review the section on The Romantic Poets. Choose one poem from this section and discuss the main idea of the poem, your favorite line, and a particularly good use of figurative language or other poetic device. Go to the bottom of this site, and search from either “British Romantic Poets” or “Seminal Poems.” Choose one poem to discuss. Be sure to also review the biography of your poet.

For a review of poetic devices see Elements of Poetry .

Please post your comment by pressing “comments” (above), putting your comment in the reply box, and “posting.”

View: Brooklyn Based Pakistani Poet: Arooj Aftab

Read: Biography and Poem by Rumi

Watch: “Last Night My Beloved”

Please also read about America’s first published poet: Phyllis Wheatley

Week 2/3     (No Class on Tues. 9/7)  Assignment Due: Monday, September 13

Read Edward Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem”  (in 16 brief sections)

Post a one paragraph response that briefly summarizes one section.  DO NOT repeat a section another student has posted on (to post go to “comment” icon above, type your comment, and post it).

Watch Robert Pinsky’s   “The Art of Poetry”

Post a one paragraph response to ONE of the poem videos from Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project.  See if you can connect the poem with what you learned from Edmund Hirsch and/or Robert Pinsky.

Put both of your responses into ONE post (Your post should consist of two paragraphs).

Welcome to City Tech and English 2003 (Introduction to Poetry). This is a hybrid class that meets every Tuesday from 2:30-3:45. Our first class meets Aug. 31.

Class Zoom Link

Meeting ID: 892 9114 8099
Passcode: 878911

I can be reached at: mnoonan@citytech.cuny.edu

Professor Mark Noonan

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Here are your duties BEFORE we meet on Zoom next Tuesday:

1.  Sign up for your OpenLab account with your name and a profile photo.  Log in, then join our course.  If you need  help,  contact the OpenLab Community Team

2. Look around our course site to familiarize yourself

3. Introduce yourself.  To write a new post, click the + sign at the top of the page. (It’s a small icon next to the class title and message box icon at the very top of the page). Fill in the subject heading with your name, then add your info and photo below.  After your work is complete, scroll down and check off OUR COMMUNITY under Categories (right side of page), then click Publish.

• Paragraph 1: Include how you would like to be addressed, your pronouns, and any other info you’d like to share. This could include where you are from, where you reside now, your academic interests or major, any hobbies or NYC activities you enjoy, how you feel about beginning college. Feel free to be creative!
• Paragraph 2:  Include a photo of something (place, space, person, pet, object, etc ) meaningful to you, and tell us about it.  You can paste the photo into the body of your message, or Add Media  to upload it to your post.
• Before next class, check back to read your classmates’ responses and reply to a few. Getting to know each other, we start building our community.

4. In a separate email (mnoonan@citytech.cuny.edu), please let me know if you have any issues with technology and/or working space that may affect your ability to complete your coursework. 

We are all in this together!  See you soon!