ENG 3050 Topics in Poetry & Poetics
This course studies American poetry through the lens of a particular theme. In previous years, we've explored subjects such as: modernism vs. postmodernism, Whitman and his 20th c. heirs, and the relation of poetic form (the sonnet, iambic pentameter, ballad stanzas) to ideas of power, religion, and gender (Frost, Stevens, Bishop, Plath). Students in this course get a chance to practice their close reading skills on difficult works of poetry, and gain the historical background necessary to appreciate many varieties of twentieth-century verse; creative writers will encounter powerful literary models that expand one's sense of what poetry can be and do. The course will culminate in a research paper. Prerequisite: completion of one 1000-level English course and one 2000-level English course or permission of instructor. (Fall)
LA
Notes
Prequisite: Completion of one 1000 level and one 2000 level English course