Poetry in America: Emily Dickinson

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 6 weeks

所在平台: EdxArchive

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大学或机构: HarvardX

授课老师: Elisa New

课程主页: https://www.edx.org/archive/poetry-america-emily-dickinson-harvardx-ampox-4

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*Note - This is an Archived course*

This course, the fourth installment of the multi-part Poetry in America series, explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson, one of America’s most distinctive and prolific poets. While Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems during her lifetime, she chose never to publish, opting instead to revisit and revise her works throughout her lifetime.  Keeping this dynamic of self-revision in mind, we will consider a number of Dickinson’s poems—many seemingly in tension with one another—concerned with Nature, Art, the Self, and Darkness. We will travel to the Dickinson Collection at Harvard's Houghton Library, and to Amherst, Massachusetts, paying a visit to the house in which the poet lived and wrote until her death in 1886. Distinguished guests for this module include NBA athlete Jason Collins, dancers Damian Woetzel and Charles “Lil Buck” Riley, and President and CEO of the New America Foundation Anne Marie Slaughter, among others.
 
Led by Harvard Professor Elisa New, Poetry in America surveys nearly 400 years of American poetry. Through video lectures, archival images and texts, expeditions to historic sites, interpretive seminars with large and small groups, interviews with poets and scholars, and conversations about poems with distinguished Americans, Poetry in America embarks on a journey through the literature of a nation. Distinguished guests, including President Bill Clinton, Elena Kagan, Henry Louis Gates, Eve Ensler, John McCain, Andrea Mitchell, Michael Pollan, Drew Faust, Tony Kushner, and Nas, among others, bring fresh perspectives to the study of American Poetry.

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  • How to understand the work of Emily Dickinson -- as it is shaped by 19th-century New England culture and as her innovations transcend that culture
  • How to identify poetic devices
  • Develop strategies for approaching a poem
  • How to make observations, understand structure, situate a text in history, and learn to enjoy language

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This module, the fourth installment of the multi-part Poetry in America series, explores the work of Emily Dickinson.  Although she never published during her lifetime, Dickinson ranks among the most prolific and widely-studied American poets.

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