English 210 - Poetry and Revolution:Modern American and French Poetry

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Colgate University

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P. Balakian, J. Naughton A consideration of certain seminal poets in France and the United States who pioneered modern poetic idioms at roughly parallel moments in their culture's respective histories. The course considers these questions: How do poets define themselves as "modern" How does their sense of being modern assert itself against traditional cultural, social, and religious values How is their modernism reflected in their attitudes toward war, sex, the unconscious, the problem of good and evil Students examine these questions as they emerge in two cultures that are, in direct and circuitous ways, in dialogue with each other. Poets include Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, H. Crane, and Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Breton. French poets are studied in translation. No knowledge of French is required. No prerequisites. This course is crosslisted as FREN 225

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3.00

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www.colgate.edu

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(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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