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The Art of Poetry: Video 01 - The Art of Poetry

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Title: The Art of Poetry Topic: Difficulty Style: Lecture
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The Art of Poetry

The art of poetry gives pleasure and invites knowledge. This course is based on a conviction that the more you know about an art, the more pleasure you will find in it.

Register for the Art of Poetry from Boston University at [...]https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-arpo222x-art-poetry-1565

About this Course

Poetry lives in any readerâ€™s voice, not necessarily in performance by the poet or a trained actor. The pleasure of actually saying a poem, or even saying it in your imaginationâ€”your mindâ€™s earâ€”is essential. That is a central idea of â€œThe Art of Poetry,â€ well demonstrated by the videos at favoritepoem.org: the photographer saying Sylvia Plathâ€™s â€œNick and the Candlestick,â€ the high school student saying Langston Hughesâ€™ â€œMinstrel Man.â€ Those readers base what they say about each poem upon their experience of saying it.

The course is demanding, and based on a certain kind of intense, exigent reading, requiring prolongedâ€” in fact, repeatedâ€” attention to specific poems.

The readings will include historical poems, as well as contemporary work. The focus will be on elements of the art such as poetryâ€™s historical relation to courtship; techniques of sound in free verse; poetryâ€™s relation to music; the nature of greatnessâ€”with only incidental attention to schools of poetry, categories and trends.

Students are encouraged to think truly, carefully and passionately about what the poem says, along with how the poem feels in oneâ€™s own, actual or imagined voice. As Robert Pinsky says, in the Preface to Singing School: â€œthis anthology will succeed if it encourages the reader to emulate it by replacing it . . . create your own anthology.â€ In a comparable way, this course hopes to inspire a lifelong study of poetry.
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