ENG 1760 B How Poetry Works
What happens when we think of poetry not just as a solitary pursuit for brooding artists, but as a vibrant way of connecting with others and changing the world? This course introduces students to how poems work-how elements like sound, shape, and imagery create meaning-but it also explores how poems do work in the world. We will read poems that grapple with a wide variety of topics. We'll read one poem that imagines how someone in fifty years will understand climate change, for example. We'll read another that uses the death of a spider to consider racist violence. Another poem examines gender and power through a speaker who addresses us from beyond the grave. This course is designed as an introduction to poetry for early-career Elon students. No previous experience in reading poetry is required.
Course Types
Expression; Literature
Offered
Fall 2022