Free online courseModern Poetry

Conteúdo do Curso

• Video class: 1. Introduction

  0h47m

• Exercise: How is modern poetry characterized according to the course lecture?

• Video class: 2. Robert Frost

  0h46m

• Exercise: In Frost's poem 'Mowing,' what is the implied relationship between the labor of mowing and the writing of poetry?

• Video class: 3. Robert Frost (cont.)

  0h50m

• Exercise: What is the primary metrical pattern found in the poetry of Robert Frost and in much of English poetry?

• Video class: 4. William Butler Yeats

  0h45m

• Exercise: What does the shift in W.B. Yeats's poetic style from his early work to his middle poetry signify?

• Video class: 5. William Butler Yeats (cont.)

  0h48m

• Exercise: Which of the following statements accurately captures the essence of W.B. Yeats' views on the subject of historical change and modernity, as discussed in the lecture?

• Video class: 6. William Butler Yeats (cont.)

  0h44m

• Exercise: Which of the following concepts can be derived from Yeats's poetry, particularly considering his reflections on occultism and the symbolism in his work?

• Video class: 7. World War I Poetry in England

  0h53m

• Exercise: What is the central theme of Wilfred Owen's poem 'Dulce et Decorum est'?

• Video class: 8. Imagism

  0h46m

• Exercise: What characterizes the poetry of the Imagist movement?

• Video class: 9. Ezra Pound

  0h52m

• Exercise: What is the central paradox of Ezra Pound's poetic identity, as presented in the 'Modern Poetry with Langdon Hammer by Yale Courses'?

• Video class: 10. T.S. Eliot

  0h49m

• Exercise: In 'Modern Poetry with Langdon Hammer by Yale Courses,' which practice does T.S. Eliot's poetry demonstrate more prominently than Ezra Pound's according to the provided text?

• Video class: 11. T.S. Eliot (cont.)

  0h49m

• Exercise: What does T.S. Eliot's term 'dissociation of sensibility' refer to in the context of his poetry and criticism?

• Video class: 12. T.S. Eliot (cont.)

  0h49m

• Exercise: What is the relationship between the concepts of a 'private ritual' and neurosis in T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'?

• Video class: 13. Hart Crane

  0h39m

• Exercise: What does the term 'spindrift' as used by Hart Crane in his poetry signify?

• Video class: 14. Hart Crane (cont.)

  0h46m

• Exercise: What does Hart Crane's concept of 'the logic of metaphor' in his poetry imply?

• Video class: 15. Langston Hughes

  0h45m

• Exercise: In Langston Hughes' poem 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', how is the speaker's identity portrayed in relation to the rivers?

• Video class: 16. William Carlos Williams

  0h48m

• Exercise: Which of the following statements best captures the nature of William Carlos Williams' approach to modern poetry according to the lecture?

• Video class: 17. Marianne Moore

  0h43m

• Exercise: What is the significance of Marianne Moore's approach to form and quotation as demonstrated in her poem 'An Octopus'?

• Video class: 18. Marianne Moore (cont.)

  0h42m

• Exercise: What is the central theme explored in Marianne Moore's poem 'An Octopus'?

• Video class: 19. Wallace Stevens

  0h51m

• Exercise: In Wallace Stevens' view, how does poetic language contribute to our understanding of reality?

• Video class: 20. Wallace Stevens (cont.)

  0h50m

• Exercise: In 'Modern Poetry with Langdon Hammer by Yale Courses', which term was used in Stevens' poem to address innocence in contrast to its typical association with guilt or malice?