This course offers an introduction to the challenges posed by poetic discourse and provides students with the practical tools they need to analyze and appreciate verse. Students will read and analyze a broad range of verse practice in English, thereby gaining a base repertoire through which they can approach future encounters with poetry in other classes. Significant portions of the course will be devoted to thinking about poetry in historical terms.
This course offers an introduction to the challenges posed by poetic discourse and provides students with the practical tools they need to analyze and appreciate verse. Students will read and analyze a broad range of verse practice in English, thereby gaining a base repertoire through which they can approach future encounters with poetry in other classes. Significant portions of the course will be devoted to thinking about poetry in historical terms.
