ENGL2131.01 Spring 2023 Studies in Poetry [Weiskott]
This course is a general introduction to poetry and poetics. The goals of the course are close reading of poetry, developing the student’s ability to ask questions which open poems to analysis, and writing lucid interpretive papers. This section of Studies in Poetry is organized around significant poetic traditions, from alliterative meter to iambic pentameter to free verse, with an emphasis on the twenty-first-century United States. We ask what it means for a poem to belong to a tradition, how traditions gain momentum, and why they endure or disappear.
Note: This section of Studies in Poetry has a creative writing component. Our reading of contemporary poetry and our composition of original poems explore poetry as a living practice.
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