Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

ENGL 304 - INTRO TO POETRY WRITING

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Students will be introduced to poetry writing by studying the work of contemporary poets and by writing their own poems. The class will pay extensive attention to such elements of poetry as imagery, figurative language, tone, syntax, and form in order to create a vocabulary for writing and discussing their own poems. Students' poems will be critiqued by the class in a workshop setting.
Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu