Eng 231: Appreciating Poetry

The course is designed to introduce the student to English poetry in terms of its essential features as a literary genre. By focusing on selected poems of various types with a wide range of subject matter and theme, the student should gain a knowledge of the craft of verse. The objective of this exercise is to equip the student with the necessary techniques to appreciate poetic meanings and how they are created. Poetic devices, such as personification, simile, metaphor, metonymy, etc. are used as tools or means to aid and help the student, but not as ends in themselves. The textbook chosen for this course  (Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, by Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp
has a glossary of literary terms for easy reference. By the end of the course, the students are expected to have the level and understanding of manipulate language of the selected poems, the poetic effects and poetic meaning