LIT 2030 Spring 2018 Carter

This course requires extensive reading. Poetry is a particularly rich and rewarding genre; it is also a difficult one. Over the course of the semester our objectives are to strengthen your critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. Our focus will be on the analysis, appreciation, and craft of poetry through the study of a variety of poetic forms.. Utilizing a number of learning strategies we will develop a vocabulary for the understanding of poetry and effective tools for the verbal and written analysis of it. To succeed in this course, students must be willing to think openly about how they interact with language and the world around them, as well as seriously pursue the questions: What is poetry? Where do we find poetry? And why should we study poetry at all? By the end of the course, you’ll find that poetry, though often difficult and demanding, can offer intense and complex pleasure- emotional, imaginative, and intellectual.