Document Type
Syllabi
School
CLA
Department
CWP-UG
Course Subject
WRIT
Course Number
3110
Course Section
01
Course Title
Forms & Elements I: Poetry
Academic Term and Year
Fall 2016
Credits
4.00
Hamline Plan Letter
F, W
Area of Study
ENG, WRIT
Course Description
Goals: In this course students explore some of the fundamental elements of poetry, including image, metaphor, simile, rhythm, rhyme, voice, tone, syntactical structures of the line, the sentence, the stanza, ideas of unity and fracture, and fragment and wholeness in the body of a poem, and the ways these elements interact with a poem’s form. Content: Attention is paid to the ways in which poets integrate these elements into the form of the poem. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments. Taught: Annually Prequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent and WRIT 3000. WRIT 3000 may be taken simultaneously with WRIT 3110. Recommended: ENG 3010 or one survey course (ENG 1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, 1270) Credits: 4
Recommended Citation
Vandenberg, Katrina, "WRIT3110-01.Forms & Elements I: Poetry.F16.Vandenberg,Katrina" (2016). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 11846.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/11846