Sections offered SPRING 2023:
#31454 |
HERBERT MARKS |
TuTh 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
|
BH 307 |
CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Class meets In Person. For more information visit https://covid.iu.edu/learning-modes/index.html
When and how do poems mean what they say, and when and how do they mean something else? What is the relation of literary language to the unspeakable? How might we respond to the naive reader who says of a poem, “I like it because I understand it”? These are a few of the questions we shall try to answer as we explore the difficult pleasures of slow reading. We shall be looking at the ways poems are shaped, their ambiguous status as both private and public statements, and their relations to their readers, to tradition, and to one another. Each week’s reading and discussion shall be focused on a specific topic (such as voice, echo, rhyme) or mode (emblem, elegy, quest). Students will be encouraged but not required to share their own poetry. Written work: brief weekly exercises and two short critical essays (one to be revised).