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The City

A thematic survey of life in the city, comprising a variety of lyrics, poetry and pictures. Genres include classic poetry, city slang as well as pop and rock lyrics from the end of the 18th century to present time.
Most of the texts are available online, and the course includes printerfriendly vocabulary exercises, work questions and guides for analysing poetry and pictures alike.

Developed by Lise Mark. 

     

    The city

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    Course outline

    Curriculum
    Week Theme Texts Activities Notes Goal
    1 The City (London around 1800) William Blake: London(1794) (from "Innocence and Experience", 1789, 1794

    Vocabulary exercise (pdf)
    Analysis of poetry
    See Blake's illuminated poem with the artist's own illustrations

    		 Doyou want to know more? Below is a link to analyses by distinquished critics.
    Analyses    		 Blake is generally considered a forerunner of the romantic poet.
    Is it possible to find example of romantic philosophy in this poem?
    1 The industrialising ccity as seen by a romantic poet Persy Bysshe Shelley: Extract from "Peter Bell the 3rd", part the third: "Hell" (Starts out: "Hell is a city much like London"

    Class session:

    -Translation
    -Reading Aloud
    -Analysis

    		   What makes Shelley compare London to Hell?
    2 The City (Chicago) Carl Sandburg: "Chicago" (1920), from "Chicago Poems" - the age of modernism.
    Online version    		 Comparison with Ezra Pound (another modernist poet): Pound's poem "In the station of the metro", 1926
    		    
    2 The City (London) in the "Fin de Siecle" Le Galienne (British Poet, born 1866): "A Ballad of London"
    Online version    		 Poetry Analysis
    Work questions to prepare at home    		 Glossary Comparing tone and mood in Blake's and Galliene's poems.
    3 The Metropolis - Heaven or Hell? I Nate Tate: "Paranoia at its finest", from "Voices in the City" - Not available in online edition.
    Work questions    		   Becoming acquainted with central analytical concepts in poetry analysis
    3 The Metropolis - Heaven or Hell? II Ebb/Kander: "New York, New York" (song lyrics), 1977
    Online version    		 Analysis of lyrics
    + GRAMMAR: simpel tid - udvidet tid (simple present tense >< The Progressive)    		    
    4 City versus country Blur: Country House, (song lyrics)
    Online version

    Pictures of the city
    Basic Picture Analysis

     

    Use google picture search to find pictures of cityscapes for analysis

    		    

    The City (et forløb)

    EMU engelsk har fået lov af Catherine Lønholt (VUC Thy-Mors) til at offentliggøre forløbet.

    Omdrejningspunktet er mennesket og byen: udlæggelsen af, oplevelsen af byen, hvilken kulisse byen udgør for mennesket(s trivsel/udfoldelse), som det kommer til udtryk i forskellige væsentlige nedslagspunkter i litteraturen fra industrialiseringen til postmodernismen.

    • Kernestof:
    • William Blake, “London”,  fra Songs of Innocence and of Experience 1794 (Interpretation)
    • William Wordsworth, “Lines composed upon Westminster Bridge”, 1807
    • Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, uddrag af ch. 8 “A London Slum” 1850.
      Fra: M.H. Abrams (ed.)The Norton Anthology of English Literature 7th ed. vol. 2
    • Carl Sandburg, ”Chicago” (1916) Fra: Chicago Poems (1916)
    • George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four, (1949) chapters 1-3
    • Marge Piercy “Right Thinking Man” (1973), side 274-275
      Fra: Jørgen Riber Christensen, 50 tekster. En historisk antologi til engelsk Gyldendal (1988)
    • Anne Carvey, ”Poor People’s Cafés” (1980?)
      Fra: Mulbjerg & Rosenvold, The Decade of Contrasts, systime 1992 eksamenstekst:
    • Paul Auster, City of  Glass, 1985, chapter 1.
      Fra: The New York Trilogy Penguin Books 1990.
    • Doris Lessing, “Debbie and Julie”, 1992. Fra: Bühlmann (ed.), Now and Zen, (Systime, 1999)
    • Charles Higson, “The Red Line”, 1993 Fra: Bühlmann (ed.), Now and Zen, (Systime, 1999)