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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 reader’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 imagination—your mind’s ear—is essential. That is a central idea of “The Art of Poetry,†well demonstrated by the videos at favoritepoem.org: the photographer saying Sylvia Plath’s “Nick and the Candlestick,†the high school student saying Langston Hughes’ “Minstrel Man.†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 prolonged— in fact, repeated— 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 poetry’s historical relation to courtship; techniques of sound in free verse; poetry’s relation to music; the nature of greatness—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 one’s own, actual or imagined voice. As Robert Pinsky says, in the Preface to Singing School: “this anthology will succeed if it encourages the reader to emulate it by replacing it . . . create your own anthology.†In a comparable way, this course hopes to inspire a lifelong study of poetry.
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Title: Samurai Song
Topic: Music
Style: Performance
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Title: The Hearts
Topic: Music
Style: Performance
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Title: At the Fishhouses Starting Out Plain
Topic: Great
Style: Lecture
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Title: Street Music
Topic: Music
Style: Performance
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Title: Ginza Samba
Topic: Music
Style: Performance
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Title: Antique
Topic: Music
Style: Performance
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Title: Ben Jonson
Topic: Music
Style: Performance
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