Poetry reading and assignment schedule

1. Poetry Reading and Assignment Schedule
Please read the following schedule carefully and regularly. All weekly assignments are
indicated in red font. All Close Reading Assignments are indicated in blue font. All reading is
found in our textbook, The Norton Introduction to Literature, or in PDFs in the “Fiction”
section of our BbLearn site.
All assignments must be submitted via BbLearn to earn any points.
Any changes to this schedule will be announced during class and via BbLearn. This schedule
is subject to change.
Date Reading. To be completed before class. Assignments. All due by
11:59pm on date stated
Mon, March 1 “Speaker” (769-777); “Situation and
Setting” (795-811)
Introduction to Poetry
Assignment
Wed, March 3
Fri, March 5 “Theme and Tone” (830-836); “Language:
Word Choice and Order (854-860); W.H.
Auden “Stop all the clocks, cut off the
telephone” (837)
Mon, March 8 Thomas Hardy “The Ruined Maid” (737)
William Wordsworth “I wandered lonely as a
cloud” (738); Emily Dickinson “The Sky is
low – the Clouds are mean” (742); Walt
Whitman “I celebrate myself, and sing
myself” (777); Mary, Lady Chudleigh “To
the Ladies” (784)
Speaker, Situation, and
Setting Assignment
Wed, March 10
Fri, March 12 Judith Ortiz Cofer “The Changeling” (788);
Maya Angelou “Africa” (821); Derek Walcott
“A Far Cry from Africa” (822); Agha Shahid
Ali “Postcard from Kashir” (827); “Adrienne
Su “Escape from the Old Country” (828)
Speaker, Situation, and
Setting Close Reading
Assignment due Sunday,
March 14th
Mon, March 15 Spring Break Spring Break
Wed, March 17 Spring Break Spring Break
Fri, March 19 Spring Break Spring Break
Mon, March 22 “Visual Imagery and Figures of Speech”
(866-876); “Symbol” (884-890); William
Shakespeare “Shall I compare thee to a
summer’s day” (878); Robert Frost “The
Road Not Taken” (892)
Visual Imagery, Figures of
Speech, Symbol, and The
Sounds of Poetry
Assignment
Wed, March 24
Fri, March 26 “The Sounds of Poetry” (899-913); William
Shakespeare “Like as the waves make

2. towards the pebbled shore” Bob Dylan “The
Times They are A-Changing” (925)
Mon, March 29 “Internal Structure” (930-938); “External
Form” (951-954); University of Idaho Poets:
TBD
Poets of Idaho
Assignment
Wed, March 31
Fri, April 2 Visual Imagery, Figures of
Speech, Symbol, and The
Sounds of Poetry Close
Reading Assignment due
Sunday, April 4th