Five Minutes with Alvin: Recent Episodes

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I'm Alvin with the English Department at Shih Hsin University and NCCU. Let's recap what we've learned.

Henry IV Part One by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

King John by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Richard II by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

Richard III by William Shakespeare

Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

Two Gentlemen of Verona by Wiliam Shakespeare

Phenomenal Woman

Persimmons; Early in the Morning

An Essay on Criticism; An Essay on Man

The Floating Poem: Unnumbered

To an Athlete Dying Young

John Dryden, the Father of English Criticism

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Mother

The Ruined Maid

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

One Art

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Musée des Beaux Arts

The Road Not Taken

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Loneliness, I Like My Body When It Is with Your, Plato Told, Grasshopper

A Birthday

Introduction of the Epic

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Soul Selects Her Own Society, I Died for Beauty

The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

To His Coy Mistress

The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott FitzGerald

Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken

The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott FitzGerald

Ars Poetica

Speaks of Rivers, Dreams

The Red Wheelbarros, This Is Just to Say

A Christmas Carol

Song: Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? Out Upon It!

Delight in Disorder

The Emperor of Ice Cream

To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time

The Pulley

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Grass

Non Vi; The Altar

Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant

The Art of Fiction

Chicago

My Last Duchess

Death, Be Not Proud; The Apparition

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Is It Indeed So ?

Success Is Counted Sweetest

Patterns

Say Over Again, How Do I Love Thee

A Valediction: Of Weeping

the Imagists, the Objectivists, the Beats, the Confessional Poetry, the New York School, the Black Arts Movement, the Academic Poets, Rap & Hip-Hop

The early-Victorian, the mid-Victorian, and the late-Victorian Periods.

The Restoration, Puritan Literature, and Satire

To Be, or Not to Be; All the World's a Stage

I Hear America Singing

Odyssey: Adventure 4 to Adventure 11

O. Henry = William Sydney Porter

Sonnet III; Sonnet XVIII

Song of Myself

Adventures 1--3

Figures of Speech

Ode to Autumn; Ode on a Grecian Urn

Songs from the Plays

Free Verse; Leaves of Grass

The Fall of Troy

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

Ode to Autumn

The Over-reacher

Moby Dick by Herman Melville; Naturalism

The Trojan War part ii

The Four Elements of the Novel; the Point of View

Mutability; Defence of Poetry

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The Trojan War part i

Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Ozymandias; Love's Philosophy

The Defence of Poesie

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

The Quest of the Golden Fleece part ii

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

What is epic? Two types of epic; Theme, Structure, the Original Sin and Free Will

She Walks in Beauty; They Say that Hope Is Happiness; When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home.

My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His; Sonnet V from Astrophil and Stella

Transcendentalism; Idealism; Four Uses of Nature; the Oversoul

Lemnos, Hylas, Phineus, Medea

What is funny? 2. Types of funny. 3. The Character 4. Attitudes 5 Humor Theory

Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos

Whoso List to Hunt; Love, that Doth Reign and Live within My Thought

The Flea; The Apparition

The Muses and Pandora

Oh, Mistress Mine; To Be, or Not to Be

Valediction: Of Weeping; Death, Be Not Proud; Song

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

The most important form of classical poetry--iambic pentameter.

An Alleged Incestual Story by Edgar Allan Poe

+Persephone

When Daisies Pied; Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred

Sonnets 18, 71 , 130; Excerpts from Hamlet, As You Like It, and Macbeth

Definition of Poetry; My Heart Leaps Up; We Are Seven

How the Puritan Society Represses True Love

Hephaestus, Ares, Hermes, and Hestia

Songs and Sonnets

A Feminist Reading

“For a' That and a' That” “Scts Wha Hae*

Hawkeye, Chingachgook, and Uncas

+Daphne, Actaeon, and Adonis

Before we go into “The Story of an Hour”

Rhyme & Meter; the Over-Reacher

To a Mouse; Ye Flowery Banks

3 Estates & 3 Characteristics

Rip Van Winklr is not a person; the sleep is not a sleep.

Hades & Persephone; Geography of the Underworld; Perseus & Medusa; Athena & Arachne

What evil do we allow in the name of tradition?

Utopian Literature; Economy & Marriage in Utopia

The Lamb and The Tyger; Two Chimney Sweeper Poems

The Marriage Group

The 13 Virtues

Four love affairs of Zeus; Hera the Olympan Qeen; Poseidon the God of the Sea

The Four Genres, The Four Elements of Canon, and the Language Bias

The Forerunners, the Lake School, and the Satanic School

Beowulf in Old English and The Canterbury Tales in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of English Poetry

The Three Generations and the 12 Olympians.

Four types of readers: the Sponge, the Sandglass, the Strain Bag, and the Mogul Diamond. The artist's power of communication comes from two things: they are sensitive to the world and they know how to show us what they feel.

The Origin, International, and Interdsciplinary.

Literary trends, languages, and nations.