[Milton-L] Even more ug teaching for Rich DuRocher

[Angelica Duran]

Dear colleagues,

Let me share my ³seduction poem² sequence that works very well for classroom
teaching:

Marlowe¹s ³Passionate Shepherd²
Raleigh¹s ³Nymph¹s Reply²
Milton¹s ³L¹Allegro² and ³Il Pensero² (mock-seduction)
Emily Dickinson¹s ³Poem 64: I cannot come live with you²
William Carlos Williams¹s ³Raleigh Was Right²
Lawrence Ferlinghetti¹s ³Come Lie with me and Be My Love²
John Updike¹s ³To an Usherette² (nice for discussions of the vocab words
³doggerel² and ³poetry²

After we go over the characteristics of seduction poems, each student must
bring in a seduction poem or the lyrics of a seduction song.  This year¹s
winners that then became our assigned reading were Frank Sinatra¹s hilarious
³Come Fly with Me,² Donne¹s ³The Flea,² and Marvel¹s ³To His Coy Mistress.²
I have groups of 4-5 students memorize and recite the poems for the class
(we divided in half ³To His Coy Mistress²), which helps speaker and audience
alike see how brave and bold these kinds of poems are. (Other groups
memorize and recite sonnets, invocations, etc.)

Adios,

Angelica Duran
Associate Professor
English and Comparative Literature
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
USA
(765) 496-3957
<duran0 at purdue.edu>
<http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/directory/?personid=80>




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