1:00p-3:00p T (15) 3 cr.
PREREQUISITE: W103, W203, L204, OR PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR.
This course will experiment with the forms of poetry. We’ll start the
semester looking at
the music-making, bodily aspects of the poem, exploring its roots in
dance and song. We’ll
scan poems and learn about rhythm, meter, and rhyme. Next we’ll
experiment with traditional
verse structures and stanza forms, and rhetoric. We will attend to
prosody, or “the meaning
of form.” After trying out traditional verse forms– such as sonnets,
blues poems, terza
rima, and villanelle, we will venture into the worlds of “the poetic
line” after free
verse. We will also write poems that make use of contemporary
non-literary forms. Some
memorization will be required. Rather than write papers, we’ll write
poems and do weekly
exercises. We will read several essays. I’ll also assign an anthology
of poetry. And
possibly a few of the books listed below: