Poetry for Life
Poetry for Life, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.33, with 18 lectures, based on 6 reviews, and has 43 subscribers.
You will learn about After gaining an understanding of criteria that have been used over the centuries to establish what is true poetry, sudents will develop their own standards so that they can judge for themselves what constitutes genuine poetry. This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is designed for gifted high school students and all others who, perhaps, when a unit of poetry came up in high school or even college, opted for a day at the beach and only later in life decided that maybe, just maybe, there is some value in poetry that I missed in my younger days. If, on the other hand, you hold a bachelors or masters degree or doctorate in Comparative Literature, this course is probably not for you unless, of course, you would simply like to rejoin and rediscover some long-lost friends from your past life. It is particularly useful for This course is designed for gifted high school students and all others who, perhaps, when a unit of poetry came up in high school or even college, opted for a day at the beach and only later in life decided that maybe, just maybe, there is some value in poetry that I missed in my younger days. If, on the other hand, you hold a bachelors or masters degree or doctorate in Comparative Literature, this course is probably not for you unless, of course, you would simply like to rejoin and rediscover some long-lost friends from your past life.
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Title: Poetry for Life
Price: $49.99
Average Rating: 4.33
Number of Lectures: 18
Number of Published Lectures: 18
Number of Curriculum Items: 18
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 18
Original Price: $19.99
Quality Status: approved
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What You Will Learn
- After gaining an understanding of criteria that have been used over the centuries to establish what is true poetry, sudents will develop their own standards so that they can judge for themselves what constitutes genuine poetry.
Who Should Attend
- This course is designed for gifted high school students and all others who, perhaps, when a unit of poetry came up in high school or even college, opted for a day at the beach and only later in life decided that maybe, just maybe, there is some value in poetry that I missed in my younger days. If, on the other hand, you hold a bachelors or masters degree or doctorate in Comparative Literature, this course is probably not for you unless, of course, you would simply like to rejoin and rediscover some long-lost friends from your past life.
Target Audiences
- This course is designed for gifted high school students and all others who, perhaps, when a unit of poetry came up in high school or even college, opted for a day at the beach and only later in life decided that maybe, just maybe, there is some value in poetry that I missed in my younger days. If, on the other hand, you hold a bachelors or masters degree or doctorate in Comparative Literature, this course is probably not for you unless, of course, you would simply like to rejoin and rediscover some long-lost friends from your past life.
In Poetry for Life, you will become acquainted with a collection of 21 poems by 15 poets composed in (or translated into) the English language. The poems have been centered around certain themes, regardless of when the poems were composed.
We will not be moving chronologically through literary periods; rather, we will be jumping about, looking at poems, despite their period, that relate to the themes upon which we will be focusing, including these themes and poets:
The Creatures Among Us featuring poems about eagles, snails, cats and fish.
The Indomitable Spiritpresenting poems dealing with persons facing physical limitations and racial injustice.
The Art of Poetrydefining what is good poetry and the struggles facing poets who choose that vocation.
The “Glory” of War describing different views of warfare over the past three centuries.
The principal goal of Poetry for Life is to engender in you an appreciation for, if not a love of, poetry. This, of course, depends to a large extent with your present fondness or (hopefully not) contempt for poetry. But, as we travel through an array of poems, I think that it is of value to examine, let me call it, the mechanics of poetry. By examining how each poem was created, we will determine the rhyme scheme of the poem (if there is one), the rhythm of the lines of the poem (if there is any perceptible rhythm) and a variety of literary devices that each poet uses to create his or her poems. By this I mean such figures of speech as similes and metaphors and other literary techniques employed by poets in creating their works, such as alliteration, irony and satire. But as we examine how the poems are created, the focus clearly will be on the poems themselves as well as the persons who created them.
But let me add a personal note. Before practicing law for some 35 years, I was an English and Journalism teacher in the late 1960s and early 1970s. And, let me add, I told people on numerous occasions, that, other than a day in trial, the toughest job I ever had was teaching. My goal at that time was to encourage my students to acquire an understanding of the accepted standards and criteria that were used to establish what were considered good novels, short stories, drama and poetry – not because works of literature were not important, though I loved them dearly, but because, in my view, that was the single-most important goal of education: to stimulate students’ abilities to think critically so that they could establish their own standards and criteria for application to every aspect of life – from making career decisions, to selecting cars to purchase, to choosing a life partner, to electing political officials, and so on through life. To establish the ability to evaluate, discriminate and assess all that is important in life, in my mind, should be the foremost goal of education.
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Introduction
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: The Eagle
Chapter 2: The Creatures Among Us
Lecture 1: The Snail
Lecture 2: Les Chats
Lecture 3: Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market & A Dog Has Died
Lecture 4: The Fish
Chapter 3: The Indomitable Spirit
Lecture 1: Sonnnet 19
Lecture 2: Invictus
Lecture 3: If We Must Die
Lecture 4: America
Lecture 5: Time To Die
Chapter 4: The Art Poetry
Lecture 1: Poetry
Lecture 2: The Poet & Frenship
Chapter 5: The "Glory" of War
Lecture 1: To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars
Lecture 2: War Is Kind
Lecture 3: The Man He Killed
Lecture 4: Dulce et Decorum Est
Lecture 5: The Hero & A Hero
Instructors
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Thomas Jenkins
English Professor at Udemy
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