Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
190301507102	CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH POETRY	Compulsory	4	7	5

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The course aims to offer a comprehensive knowledge of the 20th C. British literature from the Modernist poetry to the present and to illustrate this knowledge through a study of works representative of the literary achievements of the age.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğrt. Üye. Sevda Ayva

Learning Outcomes

The students will be able to explain the changes and movements in English poetry starting from the Modernist movement till recent representatives. The students will be able to examine and explain the contributions of poets such as T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney to English poetry by comparing them with previous periods. Reads and interprets contemporary English poetry, recognizing and identifying changes in this field. Understands that contemporary English poetry is diverse and multinational.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction; Early 20th C. English History and Politics.
2	The Modernist movement in poetry.
3	T.S.Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” The Waste Land, I. “The Burial of the Dead,”
4	D.H. Lawrence “Snake,” “Piano,” “Bavarian Gentians,”
5	W.B.Yeats “Sailing to Byzantium,” “The Wild Swans at Coole”
6	S.Smith “Is it Wise”, “Not Waving but Drowning”, L.Mac Neice “Bagpipe Music,”
7	The Thirties: The Oxford School of Political Poetry; W.H.Auden “Petition,” “On This Land,”
8	The Forties:Neo-Romanticism; Dylan Thomas “The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower,” “Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night,”
9	The Fifties: The Movement Poets; P. Larkin “Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album,” “Church Going,”
10	The Sixties and Seventies: Nature poetry: Ted Hughes ““Wind”,” “Thought-Fox”, “Relic” S.Heaney “Digging”, “Death of a Naturalist”
11	Poetry of the 1980s and 1990s: Paul Durcan, “Poem Not Beginning with a Line by Pindar”, Simon Armitage “Very Simply Topping Up the Brake Fluid” from Zoom!”
12	Postmodern Poetry: Ian MacMillan “Ted Hughes is Elvis Presley,”
13	Carol Ann Duffy “Eurydice” Black Women poetry: Jackie Kay “So You Think I’m a Mule?”
14	General revision and final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Project Presentation	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	60
Writing Paper	1	40
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

English

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Final Examination	1	3	3
Discussion	14	3	42
Question-Answer	14	3	42
Project Preparation	1	4	4
Project Presentation	1	3	3
Project Design/Management	1	4	4
Reading	14	3	42
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			140

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