ENG 247Introduction to Poetry

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Introduces students to the principles of studying and analyzing different poetic forms. While reading, listening to, discussing and writing about various kinds of poems by such poets as Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Frost, Plath, and others, students learn to evaluate and appreciate poetry by understanding such concepts as figurative language, poetic speaker and situation,meter, sound, form, and rhyme. Students are required to write a number of literary analyses.