Poetry Analysis
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this Course, students will be able to: Define poetry with all its distinctive features; Identify and differentiate main poetic forms and styles; Use all literary and rhetorical devices in analysing poetry; Use all knowledge and skills learned in analysing diverse poems
Topics
- Individual Words: Defining Poetry
- Syntax and the poetic line
- Images: Simile and Metaphor
- Metaphor and the Sonnet
- Verse Forms: The Sonnet
- Poetic Conventions: Topos
- More Verse Forms
- Personification
- Poetic Voice
- Gender and Poetic Voice
- Poetic Rhythm and Rhyme: Meter, Sound
- Rhetoric: More Tropes
- The Art of Reading: Figures, Painting, Poetry
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