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1. Course Title: Introduction to Literature
Course Code & NO.: LANE 341
Course Credit Hrs.: 3 per week
Level: 5th Level
Part Two
Poetry Selections
October, 2nd, 2013
8-9: 20 AM
Instructor: Dr. Noora Al-Malki
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2. Session Content
- Unit Learning Outcomes
- Poetry Reading Selections:
1- Romantic Poetry
- Robert Burnsâ âRed, Red, Roseâ
- Emily Dickinsonâs âA Narrow
Fellow in the Grassâ
2- Feminist Poetry
- Adrienne Richâs âThe Victimsâ
- Sharon Oldâs âAunt Jenniferâs
Tigersâ
- Next lecture
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3. Unit Objective:
In this lecture, we are going to analyze selected poetic Romantic and Feminist poems,
while reflecting on the elements of poetry and its distinguishing thematic concerns.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
-Discuss the major thematic concerns of Romantic and Feminist poetry
-Analyze the poems being discussed.
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4. Romanticism
(1770s- 1870)
(1998-1832)
Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of
as "romantic," although love may occasionally be the subject of
Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and
philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in
which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and
about their world.
The early Romantic period thus coincides with what is often called
the "age of revolutions"--including, of course, the American (1776)
and the French (1789) revolutions--an age of upheavals in
political, economic, and social traditions, the age which witnessed
the initial transformations of the Industrial Revolution.
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5. Romanticism
Major Elements
â˘Emotion vs. Reason
â˘Nature (leads to truth)
â˘Imagination
â˘Symbolism & Myth
â˘Individualism: The Romantic Hero (genius)
â˘the Exotic
Adapted from
Guide to the Study of Literature: A Companion Text for Core Studies 6, Landmarks of Literature, ŠEnglish Department,
Brooklyn College.
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9. â˘Farm life (hard life)
â˘Masonic
â˘Loose life
â˘Lyrics â Ballads of love- folk songs
â˘spontaneity, directness and sincerity
â˘Scottish life, poverty, and drinking
â˘Manic depression "blue devilism".
â˘Influenced the romantics, American
writers, Russian authors (stamp)
â˘Burnsâ National Day
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10. A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns 1794
Dialect poem - Ballad
O my Luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O my Luve's like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!
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11. Notes on the Poem
The song may be enjoyed as a simple, unaffected effusion of sentiment, or it may be
understood on a more complex level as a loverâs promises that are full of contradictions,
ironies, and paradoxes.
There are contradictory elements that seem to work against the speakerâs innocent
protestations of love. The first two lines of the second stanza do not complete an
expected (or logical) thought: âSo deep in luve am Iâ (that I cannot bear to leave my
beloved). Instead, the speaker rhetorically protests his love through a series of
preposterous boasts. His love will last until the seas go dry, until rocks melt with the sun;
he will continue to love while the sands of life (in an hourglass) shall run. Yet so steadfast a
lover, after all, is departing from his beloved, not staying by her side. For whatever reason,
he is compelled to leave her rather than remain. His final exaggerated promise, that he will
return to her, though the journey takes a thousand miles, seems farfetched, even ironically
humorous: Instead of such a titanic effort, why should he not simply stay with her
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12. Notes on the Poem
Time as a theme in a âRed, Red, Roseâ
âA Red, Red Roseâ seeks to strike a balance between the temporary and the eternal. It starts with
images of things that last for only a short time and then are gone. Any flower can be used by poets to
remind readers of the fact that beauty is fleeting, because the life of a flower is so short when compared
to human life. Flowers are often used to remind us of the interconnection of life and death because of
their quick succession of budding, blossoming, and wilting. In this poem, the flower that Burns uses is
especially short-lived: it is not just red but a red, red rose. A flower can only stay at its peak brightness
for a short time. It is newly sprung; it is presented in June, hinting at the fate that awaits it in the autumn.
Similarly, the âmelodieâ used to describe the lover is another image of fleeting time. This sense would
have been clearer to readers in the 1700âs, a time before recording equipment, when any rendition of a
song could only occur once, to be imitated later perhaps but never reproduced exactly. Melodies, like
moments, evaporate into the air and become history.
These initial examples of the ways time constantly passes are in conflict with the poemâs main claim. By
the time they have finished with âA Red, Red Rose,â readers are left with the impression that Burns is
talking about love as being eternal, not fleeting. In the third stanza he claims that his love will outlast
events that will take more time than humans could even imagine: seas going dry, rocks melting in the
sun, etc. In the end he claims he will love her after traveling ten thousand miles, which, we assume
would have to take place by horseback or sailing ship at a laborious pace. The conflicting images of love
as fleeting and also measured by centuries is used to highlight the different uses of the words âmy
Luveâ: when the Luve is a person, its life is brief like a melody or a rose, but when the word is used to
discuss emotions the poem uses images that time cannot affect.
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13. E. Dickinson, American Poetess, late 19th C
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14. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him,--did you not,
His notice sudden is.
Several of nature's people
I know, and they know me;
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality;
The grass divides as with a comb,
A spotted shaft is seen;
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on.
But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.
He likes a boggy acre,
A floor too cool for corn.
Yet when a child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,
Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in the sun,-When, stooping to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone.
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15. Notes on the Poem
This is a poem about making a journey into nature, one of the characteristic themes of American
literature.
The natural world is portrayed vividly throughout Dickinsonâs work, and this poem closely examines
one of natureâs most infamous creatures, the snake
The narrator unexpectedly encounters a snake in tall marsh grass. Far from tempting the narrator,
as the serpent tempted Eve, it induces fear, panting, and a sudden chill. The first eleven lines
describe the snake in a personified, almost amiable way. He sometimes âridesâ through the grass,
parting it like a comb does hair. Yet, when plain sight threatens to betray its exact location, the
grass âcloses at your feet/ And opens further onâ.â
Theme of âAppearance vs. Reality in the poem
Dickinson describes her objectâin this case a snakeâby hinting at what it resembles.
The speaker falsely recognizes the object, taking it for something else. There is a split
between what it appears to be and what it actually is. This theme of appearances versus
reality comes through most strongly in the fourth stanza. The speaker is recalling time
spent walking through the grass barefoot. The speakerâa young boyâspots the snake
in the grass, but perceives it to be the lash of a whip: âI more than once at Noon / Have
passed, I thought, a Whip lash / Unbraiding in the Sun.â But just as the speaker reaches
down to grab the Whip, he discovers it to be a snake, which slithers away: âIt wrinkled,
and was gone.â
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17. Sharon Olds, 20th C -21st C
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18. The Victims
When Mother divorced you, we were glad. She took it and
took it in silence, all those years and then
kicked you out, suddenly, and her
kids loved it. Then you were fired, and we
grinned inside, the way people grinned when
Nixon's helicopter lifted off the South
Lawn for the last time. We were tickled
to think of your office taken away,
your secretaries taken away,
your lunches with three double bourbons,
your pencils, your reams of paper. Would they take your
suits back, too, those dark
carcasses hung in your closet, and the black
noses of your shoes with their large pores?
She had taught us to take it, to hate you and take it
until we pricked with her for your
annihilation, Father. Now I
pass the bums in doorways, the white
slugs of their bodies gleaming through slits in their
suits of compressed silt, the stained
flippers of their hands, the underwater
fire of their eyes, ships gone down with the
lanterns lit, and I wonder who took it and
took it from them in silence until they had
given it all away and had nothing
left but this.
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19. Notes on the Poem
Sharon Oldsâ poem âThe Victimsâ tells of a childâs view of his parentsâ divorce. The poem is divided
into two main sections: the ďŹrst part in the past tense showing the speaker as a child and the last
section in the present tense with the speaker as an adult trying to make sense of past events.
The ďŹrst section creates a negative tone toward the father, who is painted as a villain by âMother,â
who âtook itâ from him âin silenceâ until she ďŹnally âkicked [him] out.â Instead of having any
sympathy for him, the children were taught âto hate you and take itâ and the children seem to have
followed this direction very well. While the poem never says speciďŹcally what Father did to justify
his familyâs hatred, the speaker hints he could have had an affair (âyour secretariesâ) or could have
been an alcoholic (âyour lunches with three double bourbonsâ), but clearly he misused his power
and his kids âgrinnedâ at his disaster like they did when President Nixon resigned.
Line 17, with its strong diction (âannihilationâ), switches the poem to present tense and ďŹrst person.
This section, with long metaphor (comparing âbums in doorwaysâ to some kind of strange
underwater creatures) and alliteration of the creepy âsâ sound, shows the speaker wondering about
the other victim of the situation; maybe it was her father and those like him who actually lost their
lives, victimized by their own bad behavior. Whatever it is, the ďŹrst person âI,â now away from her
motherâs bitterness, ends the poem seeing how many people were âThe Victimsâ of this bad
situation.
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20. A. Rich, late 20th & early 21st C
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21. Aunt Jenniferâs Tigers
Aunt Jenniferâs tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
Aunt Jenniferâs finger fluttering through her wool
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The massive weight of Uncleâs wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jenniferâs hand.
When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.
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22. Notes on the Poem
Aunt Jennifer, though she is âmastered byâ an abusive husband, finds an artistic outlet in her
needlework. The embroidered tigers stride proudly and without fear across the screen she designed.
Through Aunt Jenniferâs art, Adrienne Rich suggests that women who are not able to live freely do
triumph in some way because their imaginations cannot be captured or controlled.
Aunt Jennifer is able to imagine and create a world where men are nothing to fear. The poet depicts the
pain of a woman who is living with a brutal husband who dominates her in all respects. She does not
have her own freedom. She is more like a slave to him. She makes tigers by embroidering them on cloth.
Her tiger appears to have life. They are bright, lively and are ready to prance. Their character is totally
opposite to hers. They appear wild and free. They look like the denizens of the green forest. They are
supposed to be fearless and jump around with confidence. But Aunt Jennifer is nervous. Her hands
tremble as she tries to search for something in the wool. Her hands are so shaky that it is difficult for
her to pull the ivory needle. It is due to her wedding.
Her marriage has proved to be detrimental for her. Itâs a doubt, that even after death will she be free?
Still her tigers would continue to prance across the screen unafraid as usual, and this artistic vision
outlives her small, âterrifiedâ hands.
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