Course details

Name: ENWR - 212

Title: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2013

Credits: 3

Description:
This course is designed to introduce students to the craft of writing poetry. Think of this course as an adventure with language! Poetry is ultimately the search for new language. We are not simply "expressing ourselves" when we write poetry - we are trying to do something much more challenging and exciting: we are trying to energize our language... in order to produce new feelings!
Through reading and writing exercises, students will learn the basics of prosody and practice foundations of poetic craft such as image, metaphor, meter, rhyming, abstract versus concrete diction, using precise language, and voice. We will also discuss and practice different approaches toward form, line, stanza, and revision. Because good writers are first good readers, our writing exercises will be paired with literary selections that we will read and discuss from a writer’s perspective.

Last updated on By Lorenz Johnny (lorenzj)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

Graduation requirements:

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• Genre Study (Poetry)

Teaching Faculty: Lorenz Johnny (lorenzj)

Is course canceled: No