Modern Poetry – Summarize Spoken Text

PTE SST – Modern Poetry

My lectures are going to presume no special knowledge on your part.

I see this as a course that’s an introduction to the literature of a period, to modern poetry. We’ll be studying several poets in some detail.

The presumption is that they all reward and demand a certain amount of close reading. At the same time, I do mean to give you some sense of the period in which they’re writing, some sense of modernism as a field, as one of the richest fields in English language writing. Finally, though, this really is a course in poetry, plain and simple.

I mean to introduce you to particular poems, to give you ways to possess them, enjoy them, be puzzled or frustrated by them too; to learn something from them and to care about them and to carry them with you as you go forward after this class.

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