NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 世界詩選(2510)
(Eng.) World Poetry
Offering Dept Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Elective Credits 2 Teacher 古綺玲
Department Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures(N)Undergraduate Language 中/英文 Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description This course introduces world poetry in terms of the context of romanticism, modernism and postmodernism by examining the humancentrism and ecocentrism within it.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
It aims to help students understand world poetry in terms of both the intrinsic poetic elements and the extrinsic political issues relating to personal identity, gender, and ecocentrism.
topic Discussion/Production
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Lecturing
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Attendance
Oral Presentation
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Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Course description/elements of poetry
Word Order
William Shakespeare: ”Let me not to the Marriage of true minds” (p402)
Week 2 Elements of poetry: speaker, simile.
Emily Dickinson: ”Narrow Fellow”
Pat Mora “Veiled”
Topic 1: Romanticism: man in nature
William Wordsworth ”I Wonder Lonely as a Cloud” (p416)
Week 3 Element Of Poetry: Ryme as pattern; irony in voice
Robert Browning: ”My Last Duchess” (p132)
Tomas Hardy: ”The Man He Killed” (p26)
Ariel Dorfman: ”Hope”
Group discussion on topic 1 and oral report


Week 4 Elements of poetry: imagery
Elizabeth Bishop: ”The Fish”,(p296)
Topic 2: Modernism-- order, anxiety and sense of loss
Wallace Stevens: ”Anecdote of the Jar” (p405)
Theodore Roethke: ”My Papa’s Waltz” (p401)
W.B. Yeats: ”Leda and the Swan” (p146)
Robert Frost : The Road Not Taken” (p90)
Week 5 T.S. Eliot: ”The LOve Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (p285)
Charles Baudelaire: ”A Carcass” & other poems(The Flowers of Evil)
Group discussion on topic 2
Week 6 Group Report (with PPT) on topic 2
Week 7 Topic 3: Personal identity--feminism/gender
Adrienne Rich: ”Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger” (p238), ”Diving into the Wreck” (p298)
Group discussion on topic 3
Week 8 No class (spring vacation)
Week 9 no class/Midterm
Week 10 Group report (with PPT) Topic 3
Week 11 Element of Poetry: Metaphor
Topic 4: personal identity-- race/ethnicity
Langston Hughes: ”Harlem” (p71)
Week 12 Gwendolyn Brooks: ”We Real Cool” (p190) , ”First Fight. Then Fiddle”
Group discussion on topic 4
Week 13 Group report (with PPT) on topic 4
Week 14 Topic 5: ecopoetry
Linda Hogan: ”Affinity: Mustang”,
Week 15 Mary Oliver: ”The Egret”, ”Egrets”, ”Snowy Egret”, ”The Ponds”
Group discussion on topic 5
Week 16 Group report (with PPT) on topic 5
Week 17 Recapitulation
Week 18 no class/Final exam
Evaluation
Midterm exam 30%
final exam 30%
class work 40% attendance, quiz, oral report, participation (group discussion/activities)

Textbook & other References
Sound & Sense: An Introduction to Poetry. Twelfth Edition, Thomas R. A & Greg Johnson (Caves Book)
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
Handout posted ILearning 3.0
Office Hours
Friday 20:00-22:00
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