ENGL-2010 Closely Reading Poems
(TEXTS & CONTEXTS) In this course, students will study poems from a variety of cultural backgrounds and historical periods and come to better understand how poems produce meaning through their form: their structure, figurative language, sound effects, stanza shape, etc. Students will write thesis-driven close reading essays in which they help readers to better understand and appreciate poems. Close reading is a form of deep attention to the subtlety and complexity of literary language, and it is a skill transferable to any other activity in life that asks one to observe and think carefully. Formerly a section of ENG-265.