Description

- Identify poems from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. - Interpret poetic imagery, figurative language, and variations of tone. - Understand specific forms of short poetry, such as heroic couplets, stanzas, sestinas, sonnets, ballads, odes, and epics. - Apply critical and analytical thinking to verses, which stimulate the student’s communication skills and develop strategies of objective analysis applied on different verses. - Construct well written poems appreciation essays. - Evaluate values, human behavior and cultural diversity through different verse. - Explain open poetic forms and the resistance to tradition. Appraise poetry.

Program

Humanities Department

Objectives

• 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.