Hiroshima University Syllabus

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Japanese
Academic Year 2025Year School/Graduate School School of Letters
Lecture Code BM507001 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name イギリス詩文学演習 B
Subject Name
(Katakana)
イギリスシブンガクエンシュウB
Subject Name in
English
Seminar in English Poetry B
Instructor ABE MASAHIKO
Instructor
(Katakana)
アベ マサヒコ
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 3rd-Year,  First Semester,  OutOfTerm(1st)
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (O1) Inte:See the bulletin board for detail.
Lesson Style Seminar Lesson Style
(More Details)
Face-to-face, Online (simultaneous interactive)
 
Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week   Language of Instruction B : Japanese/English
Course Level 1 : Undergraduate Introductory
Course Area(Area) 23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area(Discipline) 05 : Literature
Eligible Students
Keywords  
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
 
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
British, American, and European Languages and Literatures, and Linguistics
(Abilities and Skills)
・Acquisition of the skill to read the sensibility and expression represented in British and American, German, and French literatures, to analyze sounds, letters, vocabulary and grammar, or to analyze other languages linguistically 
Class Objectives
/Class Outline
Introduction to Poetry in English 
Class Schedule lesson1 Introduction
• Theme: "What is poetic form?"
• Texts: Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb, and others
• Materials: Textbook introduction & appendix, handouts

lesson2• Theme: "Is Poetry Translatable? The History of the Sonnet"
• Texts: William Shakespeare, Sonnets 1, 3, 8, 12, 17, 18, 30, 73 (with translations)
• Materials: Textbook introduction, handouts

lesson3• Theme: "Poetry and Famous Quotations"
• Texts: Same as the previous session
• Materials: Textbook introduction, handouts

lesson4• Theme: "Joy in English Poetry"
• Texts: William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Ode
• Materials: Textbook Chapter 1, handouts

lesson5• Theme: "The Poet’s Perception"
• Texts:
o Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark
o John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale
• Materials: Textbook Chapter 1, handouts

lesson6• Theme: "America and Poetry"
• Texts: Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (sections 1, 24), I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
• Materials: Textbook Chapter 1, handouts

lesson7• Theme: "Poetry and Silence"
• Texts:
o Seamus Heaney, Digging
o Noriko Ibaragi, Nuku (抜く)
• Materials: Textbook Chapter 3, handouts

lesson8• Theme: "White Space in Poetry – English Poetry and Oriental Aesthetics"
• Texts:
o D.H. Lawrence, Snake, Piano
o Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
• Materials: Textbook Chapter 3, handouts

lesson• Theme: "Am I Strange?"
• Texts: Emily Dickinson, poems 214, 241, 249, 254, 258, 280, 1129, 1763
• Materials: Textbook Chapter 3, handouts
9
lesson• Continuation of Session 9: "Am I Strange?"10
lesson11• Theme: "English Poetry as a Dialogue"
• Texts:
o John Milton, When I Consider How My Light is Spent
o Philip Larkin, Toads
o Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
• Materials: Textbook Chapter 4, handouts

lesson12• Theme: "Despair and Everyday Life"
• Texts: Philip Larkin, Next, Please, Mr. Bleaney, High Windows
• Materials: Textbook Chapter 4, handouts

lesson13• Theme: "Nostalgia in Poetry"
• Texts: William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wild Swans at Coole
• Materials: Textbook Chapter 4, handouts

lesson14• Theme: "Poetry and Myth"
• Texts:
o T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, Four Quartets, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Materials: Textbook Chapter 5, handouts

lesson15• Essay Exam (Open Book) 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
Masahiko ABE. Understanding English Poetry (Eishi no Wakarikata) 
PC or AV used in
Class,etc.
Text, Handouts, Audio Materials, Visual Materials, Zoom
(More Details)  
Learning techniques to be incorporated Discussions, Post-class Report
Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review
For preparation, please check the Course Schedule, where the relevant textbook chapters to be read before each session are listed.

For review, an assignment will be given at the end of each session, and you will be asked to respond on the spot. At the beginning of the next session, we will go over the previous assignment, so please review your own comments carefully.
 
Requirements  
Grading Method Final (midterm)examination, Assignment
Attitude toward the class.
 
Practical Experience  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it  
Message  
Other   
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. 
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