| Call Number | 16601 |
|---|---|
| Day & Time Location |
T 12:10pm-2:00pm 104 Knox Hall |
| Points | 3 |
| Grading Mode | Standard |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Brionne Janae |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Method of Instruction | In-Person |
| Course Description | Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. This course will investigate the uses of rhythmic order and disorder in English-language poetry, with a particular emphasis on formal elements in free verse. Through a close analysis of poems, well examine the possibilities of qualitative meter, and students will write original creative work within (and in response to) various formal traditions. Analytical texts and poetic manifestos will accompany our reading of exemplary poems. Each week, well study interesting examples of metrical writing, and Ill ask you to write in reponse to those examples. Our topics will include stress meter, syllable-stress meter, double and triple meter, rising and falling rhythms, promotion, demotion, inversion, elision, and foot scansion. Our study will include a greate range of pre-modern and modern writers, from Keats to W.D. Snodgrass, Shakespeare to Denise Levertov, Blake to James Dickey, Whitman to Louise Gluck etc. As writers, well always be thinking about how the formal choices of a poem are appropriate or inappropriate for the poems content. Well also read prose by poets describing their metrical craft. |
| Web Site | Vergil |
| Department | Writing |
| Enrollment | 6 students (15 max) as of 9:07PM Thursday, April 25, 2024 |
| Subject | Writing |
| Number | UN3315 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Interfaculty |
| Campus | Morningside |
| Fee | $15 Creative Writing C |
| Note | Instructor will be Brionne Janae. |
| Section key | 20231WRIT3315W001 |