World Literatures 177dp - Colloquium: Journeys in World Literatures-Dwelling Poetically
Colq: T-Dwelling Poetically
Fall
2022
01
4.00
Sabina Knight
W 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM; M 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM
Smith College
WLT-177dp-01-202301
Seelye 306
sknight@smith.edu
To introduce the pleasures of poetry, this course travels through poems on themes of journeying and dwelling, voyage and return, travel and home, wandering, war and immigration. Reading ancient Chinese songs and Greek epic to contemporary docupoetry and rap, we explore key elements of poetic art
(voice, metre, tropes, image and suggestion). Students encounter less concrete effects too as they confront ambiguity, develop interpretive imagination, and surmise poetry’s powers and stakes. What is a poem? How and when does poetry affect our worlds? We also consider the art, ethics and politics of
translation, and students compose and translate short poems.
(voice, metre, tropes, image and suggestion). Students encounter less concrete effects too as they confront ambiguity, develop interpretive imagination, and surmise poetry’s powers and stakes. What is a poem? How and when does poetry affect our worlds? We also consider the art, ethics and politics of
translation, and students compose and translate short poems.
[CE] WLT 177 Limit