Introduction to Poetry
Prof. El Habib Louai
2024-2025
, Course Description
This course is designed to foster the analytical skills required for a dee
encompassing study of literary texts, more specifically poetic texts. We
study a range of poems from the 16th century to the 19th century, poems
attempt to render the invisible and visible dimensions of human experie
will analyze the ways in which poems work upon the senses, how they
consciousness of the world, Man and existence.
As we embark on a fantastic adventure across the long history of poetr
English, we'll survey different types of poetry and ask how the stances,
attitudes, values and judgments of individuals and social groups are ex
We will examine poetic forms, meter, imagery and language and the rel
between form and content. Over the course of the semester you will ac
critical terminologies that will help you describe and share critical judg
individual poems. You will also learn how to use this vocabulary to supp
analytical arguments about how poems produce meaning in different co
and for specific purposes.
, Objectives
Students will be able to:
1. Read and discuss a wide range of poems from various historical periods up
20th century.
2. Identify and discuss a variety of styles and conventional themes that charac
poetic works from various time periods.
3. Recognize a variety of traditional poetic forms and identify their characteris
4. Recognize multiple structural elements used in poetry, and demonstrate
understanding of the relationship between form and meaning.
5. employ methods and techniques of critical appreciation of poetry.
6. You will learn about rhythm, alliteration, rhyme, poetic inversion, voice and
lengths and endings. You will examine poems that do not rhyme and learn how
compare and contrast poetry.
7. Respond to works of poetry through writing, demonstrating learning of conc
and approaches to poetry appreciation covered in the course.
Prof. El Habib Louai
2024-2025
, Course Description
This course is designed to foster the analytical skills required for a dee
encompassing study of literary texts, more specifically poetic texts. We
study a range of poems from the 16th century to the 19th century, poems
attempt to render the invisible and visible dimensions of human experie
will analyze the ways in which poems work upon the senses, how they
consciousness of the world, Man and existence.
As we embark on a fantastic adventure across the long history of poetr
English, we'll survey different types of poetry and ask how the stances,
attitudes, values and judgments of individuals and social groups are ex
We will examine poetic forms, meter, imagery and language and the rel
between form and content. Over the course of the semester you will ac
critical terminologies that will help you describe and share critical judg
individual poems. You will also learn how to use this vocabulary to supp
analytical arguments about how poems produce meaning in different co
and for specific purposes.
, Objectives
Students will be able to:
1. Read and discuss a wide range of poems from various historical periods up
20th century.
2. Identify and discuss a variety of styles and conventional themes that charac
poetic works from various time periods.
3. Recognize a variety of traditional poetic forms and identify their characteris
4. Recognize multiple structural elements used in poetry, and demonstrate
understanding of the relationship between form and meaning.
5. employ methods and techniques of critical appreciation of poetry.
6. You will learn about rhythm, alliteration, rhyme, poetic inversion, voice and
lengths and endings. You will examine poems that do not rhyme and learn how
compare and contrast poetry.
7. Respond to works of poetry through writing, demonstrating learning of conc
and approaches to poetry appreciation covered in the course.
