Modern Poetry

This course covers the major characteristics, concerns, techniques, and practitioners of modern poetry.
One unifying approach is to trace the two central currents of modern poetry: traditional and
modernistic. The poets discussed will include Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost
with some focus on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. The course
will also focus on other defining aspects of Modern poetry: free verse, symbolism, realism,
metaphysics, allusion, Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical,
biographical, and gender criticism