Ten questions for students as they explore the manuscripts.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0 How do individual poems move from a field of possible ideas and images in scan one to the central approach to their subject, as shown in scans two and three? What material gets left behind and why?<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0 Trace the development of central images in a series of poems and consider their importance in revealing the poem\u2019s themes.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0 What notes written by the poet to himself in the three scans of particular poems guide you in your understanding of the poem\u2019s development and purposes?<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0\u00a0 How do the poet\u2019s notes to himself in a set of poems about place, or rural characters, or family, or popular culture show his common ideas or intentions in those poems?<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0\u00a0 Choosing several poems that vary in their form, investigate the choices made over the course of their development in line length, line breaking and the use of stanzas (or not), and explain the appropriateness of those choices.<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0\u00a0 Compare the third scans of several poems to the published versions and explain the poet\u2019s final choices in content, form, and phrasing.<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0\u00a0 Locate crucial leaps, turns or insights in the development of several poems and consider how these crucial moments contribute to the final versions. Which passages have been discarded as the poem proceeds, and why?<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0\u00a0 Consider the development of the central symbols in poems such as \u201cThe Good-Boy Suit,\u201d \u201cAfter My Stepfather\u2019s Death,\u201d \u201cShovels,\u201d \u201cThe 1950s,\u201d \u201cThe Last Black and White TV,\u201d and \u201cSmoking.\u201d How do marginal notes and choices made during the composition process add to your understanding of the symbols?<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0\u00a0 Select a series of poems that have been shaped around a single event. What do marginal notes or experiments in presentation show about the poet\u2019s intentions for the event \u2013 its back story?<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0 Trace the formation of the arc \u2013 the beginning, middle and end \u2013 of several poems and assess how the adoption or rejection of passages or ideas along the way benefit the creation of the arc.<\/p>\n\n
Ten questions for students as they explore the manuscripts. 1.\u00a0\u00a0 How do individual poems move from a field of possible ideas and images in scan one to the central approach to their subject, as shown in scans two and three? What material gets left behind and why? 2.\u00a0\u00a0 Trace the development of central images in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"parent":229,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4101,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/4101"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}