Poetry courses Massachusetts

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... around American literary and cultural artifacts. Expanded knowledge of the American experience and exposure to focused subject areas, such as the poetry of Emily Dickinson, the 20th century American novel, and the literary works of the Civil... Learn about: American Literature...

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... out loud) to the new (digitally enabled visualization and annotation). We will use readings available online via the generosity of the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. We will also think collectively about how to approach difficult poems... Learn about: Ms Word...

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... at work, an account of how minds work, a tool for eliciting thought in the reader or auditor. Bringing together readings in British poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with writings from the emergent sciences of psychology and the physiology of the brain, this interdisciplinary...

...They will help you locate the verse in relation to literary traditions and genres, as well as within political, social, and historical contexts...

...which take metaphor to be an inevitable process of human thought and which regard linguistic communities as founded on the existence of very generalized metaphoric structures-master-metaphors...

...or submit is your own. Which raises the troublesome issue of plagiarism, the use of another's intellectual work without proper acknowledgement...

...to class prepared to talk about them. In addition, every student will be required to deliver at least one presentation on an assigned work during the semester...

...You will also be writing two papers: A 5-7 pp. essay on one or two poems, and a 12-15 pp. essay due on the last day of class. I will meet with participants...

...one who steals the thoughts or writings of another." In academia plagiarism is a serious crime punishable by failure of the course and withdrawal from the Institute...

... of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, and Walcott's Omeros (a modern epic set in the West Indies). Between these major narrative poems, we will read a rich selection of their shorter poems, as well as some of their reflections in prose on what poetry does, on what other poets do, and what it means to write...

...how the lover transcends crisis in the moment of the epiphany that surfaces in love’s very failure; indeed, love itself becomes narcissistically yet optimistically illuminating...

... hypertext products, computer games, interactive fiction and poetry, and digitally mediated visual worlds. Knowledge of programming is often helpful, but not necessary... Learn about: Communication Training...

...Don't show me this again This is one of over 2,200 courses on OCW. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. MIT OpenCourseWare... Learn about: Contemporary Literature...

..."Major English Novels," we will read of plagues, wars, hysterics, monsters and more in novels by authors including William Godwin, Maria Edgeworth...

...in 1980. Our format is discussion, collision, conversation, convergence. Presentations, final project; no final exam. Class size is limited to 15 students...

... genres — how poetry blends into narrative, how fiction becomes drama, and drama inspires fiction. Through reading these selected works of traditional Chinese literature, we will examine some of the major features of traditional Chinese society: religious and philosophical beliefs, the imperial system...