授業の目的 【日本語】
Goals of the Course(JPN) | | | このコースの目的は、英語の詩を読み、分析するために必要なスキルを学生に提供することである。さらに、個々の詩を特定のテーマや歴史的文脈との関連性の中で読み解いていく。また、英米詩の歴史の概要も習得する。 |
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授業の目的 【英語】
Goals of the Course | | | The aim of this course is to provide students with the technical skills needed to read and analyze English-language poetry. Further, we will study the individual poems in relation to certain themes, and in some cases historical contexts. Students will gain a sense of the broader history of the Anglo-American poetic tradition. |
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到達目標 【日本語】
Objectives of the Course(JPN) | | | この授業の学びを通して、英詩を、①音②リズム③形式の観点から分析し、それらを意味に関連づけながら詩が読めるようになる。テクストを緻密に読む力が身につき、アカデミックな問いについて、自分の考えを書いたり口頭で説明したりする機会が得られため、アウトプットの力を磨くことができる。At the end of the course students will be able to analyze the sound, rhythm, and form of a poem in English, and relate these to the poem’s meaning. Students will develop close-reading skills and gain practice in explaining their ideas on academic matters in both written and spoken English. |
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授業の内容や構成
Course Content / Plan | | 1. Basics of Prosody: Rhyme, Rhythm, Sound. Study Activity: read ‘Stopping in Woods on a Snowy Evening’.
2. Reading Rhyme and Rhythm: Robert Frost, ‘Stopping in Woods on a Snowy Evening’. Study Activity: read ‘The Road Not Taken’.
3. Metaphor & Misreading: Robert Frost, ‘The Road Not Taken’. Study Activity: Review Historical Survey handout.
4. Historical survey. Study Activity: read three short poems by Dorothy Parker.
5. Savage irony 1: Three poems by Dorothy Parker. Study Activity: read ‘This Be The Verse’.
6. Savage irony 2: Philip Larkin, ‘This Be The Verse’. Study Activity: read ‘The Fly’ and ‘o purple finch’.
7. Poetry about pets 1: William Blake, ‘The Fly’, e.e. cummings, ‘o purple finch’. Study Activity: read ‘Last Words to a Dumb Friend’.
8. Poetry about pets 2: Thomas Hardy, ‘Last Words to a Dumb Friend’. Study Activity: read ‘Exposure’.
9. Poetry and War 1: Wilfred Owen, Exposure’. Study Activity: read ‘The Hero’.
10. Poetry and War 2: Siegfried Sassoon ‘The Hero’. Study activity: read some short poems by Stevie Smith.
11. Whimsy: Stevie Smith. Study activity: read ‘Jabberwocky’.
12. Poetry and Philosophy: ‘Jabberwocky’, from Alice Through the Looking Glass. Study Activity: read ‘The Sunne Rising’.
13. Complexity and Context 1: John Donne. ‘The Sunne Rising’. Study Activity: read ‘A Valediction Concerning Weeping’.
14. Complexity and Context 2: John Donne, ‘A Valediction Concerning Weeping’. Study Activity: survey the course contents.
15. Concluding impressions and remarks. |
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履修条件・関連する科目
Course Prerequisites and Related Courses | | | The class is conducted in English. |
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成績評価の方法と基準
Course Evaluation Method and Criteria | | | Students will be graded according to seminar participation (40%), satisfactory completion of study activities (20%), and a term paper in English (40%). |
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教科書・テキスト
Textbook | | | There is no designated textbook, but materials will be handed out at every class. |
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参考書
Reference Book | | | Background materials for reference will be provided. |
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課外学習等（授業時間外学習の指示）
Study Load(Self-directed Learning Outside Course Hours) | | The study activities are necessary preparation for the next class.
1. Study Activity: read ‘Stopping in Woods on a Snowy Evening’.
2. Study Activity: read ‘The Road Not Taken’.
3. Study Activity: Review Historical Survey handout.
4. Study Activity: read three short poems by Dorothy Parker.
5. Study Activity: read ‘This Be The Verse’.
6. Study Activity: read ‘The Fly’ and ‘o purple finch’.
7. Study Activity: read ‘Last Words to a Dumb Friend’.
8. Study Activity: read ‘Exposure’.
9. Study Activity: read ‘The Hero’.
10. Study activity: read some short poems by Stevie Smith.
11. Study activity: read ‘Jabberwocky’.
12. Study Activity: read ‘The Sunne Rising’.
13. Study Activity: read ‘A Valediction Concerning Weeping’.
14. Study Activity: survey the course contents. |
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履修取り下げ制度（利用の有無）学部のみ
Course withdrawal | | |
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備考
Others | | |
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授業開講形態等
Lecture format, etc. | | |
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