ENGL 270 — Poetry
This course will be a close examination of poetry as a universal form of human verbal expression . It wil l explore the varieties of the genre, the fundamentals of prosody, and the different poetics that have been articulated and embraced through -out history. Different forms and styles of poetry will be examined as well as the different incarnations of poetry among world cultures. In addition to reading a significant quantity of poetry, students will also read critical essays about important poets and essays by poets containing their statements of aesthetics. The course will emphasize poetry deemed ‘accessible’ - capable of being read and analyzed by a non-specialized audience - but not to the extent of eschewing poetry that has over time been considered profound and enduring. Representative poets will be assigned, and their work will be analyzed in terms of var ious aesthetic, historical, cultural, political, and ethical contexts. This course is writing intensive. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-100 or ENGL-101 Corequisite(s): ENGL-115