Worksheet for Lecture 12 Modern American Poetry.docVIP

Lecture 12 Modern American Poetry Selected Readings: 1. The Red Wheelbarrow—by William Carlos Williams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens 2. In a Station of the Metro—by Ezra Pound The apparition of these facds in the crowd; Petal on a wet, black bough. 3. The Snow Man—by Wallace Stevens One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound of the wind, In the sound of a few leaves, Which is the sound of the land Full of the same wind That is blowing in the same bare place For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. 4. Anecdote of the Jar--by Wallace Stevens I placed a jar in Tennessee,And round it was, upon a hill.It made the slovenly wildernessSurround that hill.The wilderness rose up to it,And sprawled around, no longer wild.The jar was round upon the groundAnd tall and of a port in air.It took dominion every where.The jar was gray and bare.It did not give of bird or bush,Like nothing else in Tennessee. 5. L(a--by e.e.cummings L(a le af fa ll s) one l iness 6. In Just--by e.e.cummings in just— spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it’s spring when the world is puddle-wonderful the queer old balloonman whistles far and wee and bettyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it’s spring and the goat-footed balloonman whistles far and wee 7. old age sticks—By e.e.cumming old age sticks up Keep Off signs) youth yanks them down(old age cries No Tres)(pas) youth laughs (sing old age scolds Forbid den