LIT1406 Poetry

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LIT1406 Poetry

This course will provide valuable insight and gratification of poetry.  The linguistic approaches used by poets to arouse the senses and hone the perception of the reader will be examined.  This course is designed to approach poetry from numerous standpoints.

You will come to respect that, although poetry can be complex and difficult, it can also offer profound and complex pleasure, emotionally, imaginatively and intellectually.  The diverse elements and types of poetry will be explored.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This course will delve into the imagery, resonance, sound, cadence and the metaphorical language used in poetry.  It will also examine what we can learn from the poem.  By the end of this course, all students should:

  • Expand skills in interpreting poems
  • Endeavor writing poetry
  • Learn various types of poetry
  • Publicize literary studies with precision and validity
  • Perceive and assess the details that comprise a poem
  • Ascertain how texts vary from one another
  • Recognize how poetry relates with the larger society and its historical changes

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Full-CLC Students

A CLC award signifies that the student has attained the knowledge, (through either prior education or experience), equal to or greater than the student would have learned in a traditional college course.”

“Based upon your CLC award, physical classroom attendance is not required; however, you will be required to successfully pass a final exam for each course.”

Based upon your HESEAP Application, you have received full-CLC for this course; therefore, this is a test-out course which does not include traditional education on the subject.

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