Poetry 1

Description

The course aims to introduce students to the complexity and pleasure of poetry. It provides an overview of the major developments in the English poetry history. It offers a series of introductions to key poetic genres, conventions and debates. It presents an array of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of poetry. It equips students with a multifaceted framework with in-depth analyses might be achieved linking them to the multiple cultural, social and aesthetic contexts of their time. It introduces students to a variety of literary elements and devices including character, narrator, plot, setting, point of view, style, theme, tone, technique, and conflict.

Objectives

• On completion of this course, students will be able to:
  1- Identify the historical and cultural backgrounds of classical poetry.
  2- Recognize the major themes and techniques of each century’s poetry.
  3- Describe the features of different types of poems.
  4- Identify the different poetic devices used when analyzing poems.
  5- Describe concepts and terms appropriate to the study of poetry.
  6- Use literary terminology, language structures and rhyming devices.
  7- Interpret new ideas from Courtly Love poetry to Romantic poetry.
  8- Analyze the relationship between a text and its biographical and cultural contexts.
  9- Write reading responses and critical essays on selected verse.
  10- Analyze the diction of the poems discussed in class.
  11- Listen to audio material of poets reading to recognize the effect of sound devices.
  12- Analyze a poem by focusing on its features.
  13- Discuss a variety of poems in class.
  14- Compare between poems on related themes.
  15- Conduct stylistic analyses to different verse forms.
  16- Give oral presentations on some poems of their choice.
  17- Write a short term-paper explaining the historical and cultural backgrounds as well as the major theme and technique of a poem of their choice.
  18- Improve their knowledge of the historical and the cultural backgrounds of classical poetry by providing them with work samples from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries.
  19- Display knowledge of major verse forms.
  20- Read, appreciate, analyze and write critical essays on a variety of
  21- poems that belong to different periods and movements.
  22- Apply all learned poetic devices to the poems under study.