Course content
This course is delivered as a fully on campus course. Students will read between 50 and 100 poems written in English ranging from Shakespeare, to Anne Carson, to Tayi Tibble and beyond, as well as a range of criticism taking a variety of critical approaches. We will look at poems about climate change, about love, about apple-picking and riding horses, about single-use plastic bags and about life as a contemporary were-wolf, considering such aspects of poetry as simplicity and resonance, ornamentation, argument and conversation, concision, sprawl, metre and layout and more.
Course learning objectives
Students who pass this course should be able to:
write effective short critical analyses of individual poems
demonstrate an understanding of poetic form
write original poetry informed by an understanding of poetic theory and contemporary practice
Academic requirements
No pre-requisites are required for entry into this course.
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Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington values te reo Māori. Students who wish to submit any of their assessments in te reo Māori must refer to The Use of Te Reo Māori for Assessment Policy - PDF 134kb
He mea nui te reo Māori ki Te Herenga Waka. Ki te pīrangi koe ki te tuhituhi i ō aro matawai i roto i te reo Māori, tēnā me mātua whakapā atu ki te kaupapa here, The Use of Te Reo Māori for Assessment Policy - PDF 134kb
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