Poetry, Lyric, and Song

3 Credits

Explore the forms, sounds, images, and experiences of poetry and song. How does poetic language grapple with human complexity and difference? What is the relationship between writing, orality, and music in the history of poetry? How do poets express and represent gender, sexuality, race, power, resistance, revolution, and cultural change? Reading and listening assignments might include balladry, sonnets, metaphysical poetry, free verse, hip-hop, popular music, and more.