ENG1142 Introduction to Poetry Writing Fall 2021
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Students practice the craft of writing effective lyric, narrative and experimental poems, studying poems by accomplished poets and producing poems of their own in a seminar and workshop setting. Key concepts and skills include observation and description, the use of persona, imagery, metaphor, connotation, sound, line breaks, structure in poetry, syntax and grammar. The course incorporates a variety of cultural perspectives in the theory and practice of writing poetry.
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For your final assignment, I want you to write a manifesto. These can be “any damn thing you w […] See MorePOETRY MANIFESTO ASSIGNMENT
Our presentations have drawn to an end. To conclude this part of the class, I'd like each of you […] See MoreCento Assignment
I Write this Ghazal So I Won’t Have to Think about What’s Really Happening - Pam Davenport
What bliss there is in blueness. ~Vladimir Nabokov Blue dawn air, blue rooftops, the hazy h […] See MoreI Write this Ghazal So I Won’t Have to Think about What’s Really Happening - Pam Davenport
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