FYS 61 Rhythm and Rhetoric: New Formal Poetry
In this course students will study the various ways formal poetry is unique in its ability to heighten awareness and shape understanding. Focusing on newly published poems and criticism, we will explore how the cadence of everyday speech and the formal rules of meter, rhyme, and stanza work together to generate a wide range of expressive and rhetorical possibilities. Along the way, students will be given intensive training in academic writing at the college level, with assignments designed to build critical reading and writing skills—including the use of evidence, rhetorical strategies, and matters of form, clarity, and style—over the course of the semester.