First Year Module
Module Leader: Dr Antonella Castelvedere
Description
Reading and Writing Poetry introduces students to the complexity and pleasure of poetry. It is designed to help students engage with poetry in a creative and active manner by considering the practice of reading and writing poetry as a continually renewable experience. Students are taught the poetic terminology necessary to study poems from a variety of perspectives, including the analytical, the critical and the historical. The module examines a wide range of poetic writings, from canonical texts of the English tradition to postcolonial texts, as well as poems in translation.
The reading of poetry is combined with the writing of poetry, supplying students with an informed insight into the process of composition. Through creative writing practice students are encouraged to experiment with poetic form and explore its aesthetic and constructed qualities. The module provides a solid grounding in poetry that leads onto a specialist Seventeenth Century Poetry module at Level 5 and offers valuable knowledge for those wishing to progress into postgraduate teacher training.