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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2022 |
Registration ID | ARTWB261001 |
Course Title | Writing Poetry I |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Lewis,Taylor A. |
Times and Days | MW 07:10pm-08:30pm
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Room Location | DAL2 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2099 In this course students will learn to "read like a writer," while grappling with the work of accomplished poets, and providing substantive commentary on peers' work. Through diverse readings, students will examine craft strategies at work in both formal and free verse poems, such as diction, metaphor, imagery, lineation, metrical patterns, irony, and syntax. The course will cover shaping forms (such as elegy and pastoral) as well as given forms, such as the sonnet, ghazal, villanelle, etc. Students will discuss strategies for conveying the literal meaning of a poem (e.g., through sensory description and clear, compelling language) and the concealed meaning of a text (e.g., through metaphor, imagery, meter, irony, and shifts in diction and syntax). By the end of the course, students will have generated new material, shaped and revised draft poems, and significantly grown as writers by experimenting with various aspects of craft. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) Enrollment Cap: 15; Lottery Criteria: Students must register for ARTW B999 during preregistration and complete the questionnaire to be considered for a Creative Writing course. See the Creative Writing web page for a full list of course and a link to the questionnaire - https://www.brynmawr.edu/creativewriting/courses. After preregistration and during registration period, please send the form directly to Dee Matthews amatthews@brynmawr.edu). |
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