Welcome to Introduction to Poetry!
My goal with this course is to empower you with the critical vocabulary and analytical techniques you need to increase the profit and pleasure you derive from reading poetry. We will read some wonderful poetry and examine and discuss it from a variety of artistic, critical, cultural, and media perspectives. And through this intense study of the poetic function of language, you will discover poetry all around you, as it exists in everyday uses of the word.
In our Facebook Group, share a poem (directly or as a link) that you enjoy and persuade us all to read it in 1-2 sentences. (Example: What is so cool about it? Why would we want to click on the link or read the poem in your post? Sell us on the poem!)
Post this before August 15 (you have until midnight!)
Before class on Wednesday, August 16 visit our Facebook Group and read 3 of the most compelling poems shared, leaving a brief (or extensive) comment on the poem.