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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College Graduate School of Arts
Course Code JB139
Theme・Subtitle アメリカのソネットを読む
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Mon.4・5203
Credit 2
Course Number EAL6313
Language Others
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes 後期課程用科目コード:PB321
Text Code JB139

【Course Objectives】

This seminar deals with sonnets and sonnet sequences written by American poets from William Cullen Bryant to Robert Frost. Through intent and critical reading of their 14-line poems, students will be able to appreciate the appeal of their works and to develop “the ability to analyze as well as synthesize content” and “the skills to conduct accurate and objective surveys” as outlined in the Curriculum Map.

【Course Contents】

 Edwin Arlington Robinson, who can be considered a precursor of early 20th century modernism, wished that sonnet poets would “vanish in irrevocable night.” They seemed to him to be nothing more than poets who composed “songs without souls” in “a shrewd mechanical way.” Robinson, however, echoed this condemnation in a sonnet of his own. When he wanted a poem that would make “the sunset as before” look like a completely new one, he turned to sonnets.
 In this seminar, we will focus on sonnets, poems both old and new. And they are American ones. This is because, while there is a tradition in the history of American poetry that can be described as anti-sonnet, there has been an unobtrusive production of noteworthy sonnets since the mid-19th century. In fact, Romantic poets such as Bryant, Longfellow, Poe, Very, Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, and others were working on this traditional European form while at the same time trying to make American poetry independent from the old world. This class will also explore 14-line poems by Robinson, Frost, and others to unveil novelty hidden underneath as well as the struggle the poets experienced.

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