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MEG-18 English Topics Covered
Block 1 – An Introduction to American Poetry: Themes and Issues
- Unit 1 – Contextualizing American Poetry: Colonial Period
- Unit 2 – Contextualizing American Poetry: Post Colonial Period
- Unit 3 – Contextualizing American Poetry: Modern Period
Block 2 – Eighteen and the Nineteenth Century-I
- Unit 1 – Background
- Unit 2 – Philip Freneau’s “The Wild Honey Suckle”
- Unit 3 – Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought From Africa to America”
- Unit 4 – Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Brahma”
- Unit 5 – Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
- Unit 6 – Emily Dickinson: “I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed” and “She Sweeps With Many Colored Brooms”
Block 3 – Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Century-II
- Unit 1 – Background
- Unit 2 – Edgar Lee Master’s “America”
- Unit 3 – Carl Sandburg’s “Accomplished Facts”
- Unit 4 – Robert Frost’s “Home Burial” and “After Apple Picking”
Block 4 – Early Twentieth Century
- Unit 1 – Background
- Unit 2 – T. S. Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday”
- Unit 3 – Ezra Pound’s “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
- Unit 4 – William Carlos Williams’ “A Good Night”
- Unit 5 – Countee Cullen’s “Lines to My Father” and “Langston Hughes’ Let America Be America Again”
Block 5 – Mid Twentieth Century
- Unit 1 – Background
- Unit 2 – Robert Lowell’s “For The Union Dead”
- Unit 3 – Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel”, “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus”
- Unit 4 – Anne Sexton’s “After Auschwitz” and Elizabth Bishop’s “A Summer’s Dream”
- Unit 5 – Wallace Stevens “Anecdote of The Jar”
Block 6 – Late Twentieth Century
- Unit 1 – Background
- Unit 2 – John Crowe Ransom’s “Riverside”
- Unit 3 – Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Selection From Laguna Woman” and “Joy Harjo’s The Last Song”
- Unit 4 – Robert Penn Warren’s “A Way to Love God”
- Unit 5 – Allen Ginsberg’s “Death and Fame”
Block 7 – Contemporary Poetry
- Unit 1 – Background
- Unit 2 – Adrienne Rich’s “In a Classroom” and Carolyn Kizer’s “On a Line from Valéry” (The Gulf War)
- Unit 3 – Maya Angelou’s “Touched by an Angel” and Marge Piercy’s “The Colors Passing Through Us”
- Unit 4 – Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s “Pantoun for Chinese Women”
- Unit 5 – Gwendolyn Brooks “The Children of the Poor”
