开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 9 weeks
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所在平台: EdxArchive 课程类别: 其他类别 大学或机构: BUx 授课老师： Duy Doan Robert Pinsky |
课程主页: https://www.edx.org/archive/art-poetry-bux-arpo222x
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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.
Is there a required textbook?
All readings will be from freely available online resources. Recommended books include Singing School and the anthology An Invitation to Poetry.
Can I contact the Instructors or Teaching Assistants
Yes, but not directly. The discussion forums are the appropriate venue for questions about the course. The instructors will monitor the discussion forums and try to respond to the most pertinent questions; in many cases response from other students and peers will be adequate and faster.
Is this course related to a campus course at Boston University?
No, the course will be entirely new, not a version of any existing course. But on the other hand, an important element will be the Favorite Poem Project videos at www.favoritepoem.org. In spirit and practice, those videos of readers choosing, speaking and discussing poems will be important, along with the brief mini-lectures and the discussion sessions.
This is a past/archived course. At this time, you can only explore this course in a self-paced fashion. Certain features of this course may not be active, but many people enjoy watching the videos and working with the materials. Make sure to check for reruns of this course.
How to think about, read, listen to, and engage with poems
Historical and contemporary poems through topics like form, poetry and music, parody, and difficulty
The means to inspire your own lifelong study 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.
