ENGL 101

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Intro to Poetry

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Credit: 3 hours.

Close reading and analysis of poetry and other literary texts. Introduction to argumentative strategies for writing about poetry. Addresses prosody, poetic language (diction, metaphor, image, tone), and major verse forms (the sonnet, elegy, ode, ballad, dramatic monologue, free verse). Students also study poems from a range of literary periods and movements to learn how formal qualities change and develop over time and are relevant to everyday life.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 101 class schedule data for spring 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40747	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	1022 Lincoln Hall	Saville, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: THIS IS NOT A POETRY-WRITING CLASS, but a course in poetry reading and interpretation. The English Department Course Catalogue provides you with a check list of what in theory you should be offered in this course (see below), but it does not mention the pleasures that lie in store for us as we take time for poetry in an internet world. Shutting off all electronic devices in the classroom, we will practice listening to poetry (because poetry is the art of structuring sound). We will enjoy the luxury of postponing hasty arrival at meaning (because the best poetry has so much to say and such special ways of saying it), and we will experience the great rewards of patience (because poetry teaches us the complexity of somatic, emotional truth, and the enormous difficulty of establishing it). In due course, we will turn our devices back on and explore the advantages of poetry’s presence on the internet. Our textbook will be The Norton Introduction to Poetry, Ninth Edition, BUT BUY EARLY TO AVOID HIGH PRICES. Catalogue Description: English 101 provides students with a foundation in the methods of close reading and analysis essential to an understanding of poetry and, more broadly, to the study of literature. Furthermore, it introduces students to the ways we write and make arguments about poetry. The course addresses the basics of prosody, aspects of poetic language (such as diction, metaphor, image, tone), and major verse forms (such as the sonnet, elegy, ode, ballad, dramatic monologue, free verse). In addition to the formal qualities of poetry, students will also study poems from a range of literary periods and movements in order to learn how these formal qualities change and develop over time as well as how poems are both shaped by and, in some cases, even manage to shape their (and perhaps our) world. Students will write twelve to fifteen pages of interpretation or criticism, spread out over two or more essays, and also take a midterm and a final examination.