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

[Rose Williams]

Even more ug teaching for Rich DuRocherHow about Marvell and Donne?
Rose Williams
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  From: Angelica Duran 
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  Subject: [Milton-L] Even more ug teaching for Rich DuRocher


  Dear colleagues,

  Let me share my "seduction poem" sequence that works very well for classroom teaching:

  Marlowe's "Passionate Shepherd"
  Raleigh's "Nymph's Reply"
  Milton's "L'Allegro" and "Il Pensero" (mock-seduction)
  Emily Dickinson's "Poem 64: I cannot come live with you"
  William Carlos Williams's "Raleigh Was Right"
  Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Come Lie with me and Be My Love"
  John Updike's "To an Usherette" (nice for discussions of the vocab words "doggerel" and "poetry"

  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 year's winners that then became our assigned reading were Frank Sinatra's hilarious "Come Fly with Me," Donne's "The Flea," and Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress."  I have groups of 4-5 students memorize and recite the poems for the class (we divided in half "To His Coy Mistress"), 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
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  West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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  <duran0 at purdue.edu>
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