SLL 103S Tutorials 1- 6

You must attend both tutorials every week; be prepared to discuss the content of each tutorial and for the tutorials you choose to submit as one of your written assignments, to hand in your 1000 word piece at the beginning of the pertinent tutorial session.

SLL103S TUTORIALS 1 & 2




TUTORIAL 1:

[ See Handout ]



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TUTORIAL 2:

a. Read Ovid Amores 1.13 (Reader page 2-3)
Identify what is particularly ‘Ovidian’ about the poem.

b. Read poem by Donne (Reader page 25)
In what ways is this poem similar to and different from Amores 1.13?


SLL103S TUTORIALS 3 & 4


TUTORIAL 3:

Read poem by Wilmot (Rochester) (Reader page 24a) In what ways is this poem similar to and different from Amores 3.7?








TUTORIAL 4 :

Carefully read through the extract from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream on pages 10-24 of the Reader (together with the Footnotes). To what extent is Shakespeare following Ovid here, and to what extent is he pursuing his own poetic and dramatic concerns?


SLL103S TUTORIALS 5 & 6






TUTORIAL 5:

Closely compare the text of Ted Hughes’s ‘Pyramus & Thisbe ’ (Reader, pages 34-38) with Ovid’s version of the tale of Pyramus & Thisbe (Reader, pages 7-9). What has Hughes chosen to emphasise, to add, or to omit? And why?







TUTORIAL 6:

Carefully read through the poem ‘Mrs Midas’ by Carol Ann Duffy (Reader pages 38-39). What does this poem owe to Ovid’s version of the Midas story (Reader pages 6-7)? And in what ways has Duffy adapted Ovid’s story to her own purposes?