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均是精品，欢迎下载学习！！！ 欢迎下载百度文库资源 资料均是本人搜集 均是精品，欢迎下载学习！！！ READING ASSIGNMENT FOR TUES 24 NOVEMBER Poems from The Rattle Bag Robert Frost, “Birches” (p. 78) Philip Larkin, “The Explosion” (p. 144) Elizabeth Bishop, “The Fish” (p. 153) Sylvia Plath, “Mushrooms” (p. 299) Ezra Pound, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” (p. 357) Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (p. 421) Poems posted below Robert Lowell, “For the Union Dead” Frank O’Hara, “The Day Lady Died” Wislawa Szymborska, “Cat in an Empty Apartment” Robert Pinsky, “The Shirt” James Wright, “Lying in a Hammock…” A. R. Ammons, “Winter Scene”  In his brief preface (“Theory”) to The Sounds of Poetry, Robert Pinsky makes the unequivocal declaration that “No instruction manual can teach as much as careful attention to the sounds in even one great poem.” But don’t take his word for it – let’s put that assertion to the test. For this reading assignment I’d like you to read all twelve of these eclectic and distinctive modern poems with an eye to what might be learned from them about the art and craft of expressing ourselves in the medium of lines. To that end, please select any two of them that made the strongest impression on you, and take a few moments to respond to the questions below. The idea here is not to analyze them the way we might in a literature class so much as to sound out how they’re constructed verbally and prosodically for particular expressive and aesthetic effects. I won’t be asking you to turn in your responses, but we’ll compare notes in class and see what we can do to spark an edifying exchange of views. This is also an opportunity for you to come to class with questions of your own that may be arising as you’re working on your poems, be they technical or philosophical. We may not arrive at any definitive answers (those can be hard to come by about poetry), but ideally the exercise will clarify the way you approach some of the working principles and tools of the trade