Lectures (Video)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Robert Frost
- 3. Robert Frost (cont)
- 4. William Butler Yeats
- 5. William Butler Yeats (cont)
- 6. William Butler Yeats (cont) III
- 7. World War I Poetry in England
- 8. Imagism
- 9. Ezra Pound
- 10. T. S. Eliot
- 11. T. S. Eliot (cont)
- 12. T. S. Eliot (cont) III
- 13. Hart Crane
- 14. Hart Crane (cont)
- 15. Langston Hughes
- 16. William Carlos Williams
- 17. Marianne Moore
- 18. Marianne Moore (cont)
- 19. Wallace Stevens
- 20. Wallace Stevens (cont)
- 21. Wallace Stevens (cont) III
- 22. W. H. Auden
- 23. W. H. Auden (cont)
- 24. Elizabeth Bishop
- 25. Elizabeth Bishop (cont)
Modern Poetry - Lecture 2
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Lecture 2 - Robert Frost
The poetry and life of Robert Frost are characterized in opposition to the works of nineteenth-century poets and Modernists Eliot and Pound. Frost's poetic project, how he positions himself among his contemporaries, his poetics of work, and his concept of "the sound of sense" are discussed. The poems "Mowing" and "'Out, Out--'" are interpreted, and the tensions between vernacular language and poetic form that they showcase are explored.
Prof. Langdon Hammer
Modern Poetry, Spring 2007 (Yale University: Open Yale) http://oyc.yale.edu Date accessed: 2009-11-08 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
Lecture Material
Supplementary lecture material is listed below.1. Handout 2: Robert Frost (pdf)
2. Section Activity: Robert Frost (pdf)