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ENG 302 - Writing Poetry
Writing Poetry Prerequisite: ENG100 and a 100 or 200-level literature course Guided by close readings of contemporary models, participants will write poems and present them for group critique. Instruction on the nuts and bolts of writing poetry and growth of aesthetic judgment. Basic techniques include linked and evolving images, metaphors and other figures of speech, fixed and open forms, linebreaks, rhythms and various means of capturing a human voice in dramatic and imaginative writing. Focus on the interplay of figural and literal language and on the union of content and form. No prior experience writing poems is assumed; however, this is a demanding course, not for dilettantes or dabblers. Students graded on a polished portfolio of finished work. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture English Department

ENG 302 - Writing Poetry

Writing Poetry
Prerequisite: ENG100 and a 100 or 200-level literature course

Guided by close readings of contemporary models, participants will write poems and present them for group critique. Instruction on the nuts and bolts of writing poetry and growth of aesthetic judgment. Basic techniques include linked and evolving images, metaphors and other figures of speech, fixed and open forms, linebreaks, rhythms and various means of capturing a human voice in dramatic and imaginative writing. Focus on the interplay of figural and literal language and on the union of content and form. No prior experience writing poems is assumed; however, this is a demanding course, not for dilettantes or dabblers. Students graded on a polished portfolio of finished work.

3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

English Department

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