Literature 2019 - Articulate Sounds:Reading Poetic Texts

Institution:

Bard College

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How do we make sense of a poem? What systems and characteristic features are put in place to get its work done? In this course, designed to develop close reading and reasoning skills, students pay attention to the sound system of prosody, grammar, rhetoric, and the uses of figurative language. Presentations and assignments orient students toward interpreting poems by analyzing the poetic line via detailed scansions, discussion of the relationship between meaning and metrical structure, analysis of line openings and endings, and the work of metaphor and other figurative language. In addition to readings in rhetoric, poetics, and linguistics, authors studied include Wyatt, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Blake, Shelley, Keats, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Hopkins, Pound, Auden, Oppen, Niedecker, Hejinian, and Ashbery.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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