ENGL 101

Spring 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 17-May 3

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 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	34528	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	David Kinley Hall	Wood, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: SP23 ENGL 101 Introduction to Poetry, Prof Wood. Lyric poetry is a complex art form acutely observant of human feeling and behavior. A notable verse tradition also looks outward, training its eye on the natural world around us. As such, poetry is uniquely gifted to articulate human dependency on natural resources, and to map, psychologically, our apparently ungovernable impulses for environmental destruction. In addition to introducing basic principles of poetics, this course will explore the idea of poetic resilience: what makes natural systems resilient, and can we apply the lessons of resilient ecology to poetry, to understand what enables certain poems to survive and speak across generations? More broadly, can so-called ecopoetry help us imagine a resilient, post-carbon life mode and politics? Discussion of key concepts in ecology will supplement our readings in American ecopoetry from the mid-twentieth century to today.