Una introducción a la poesía

We will have a pretty big emphasis on the two poets listed above; Dickinson and Frost. The class is structured around a series of poems from the two (selected for content and brevity). Students will practice looking at them from a variety of viewpoints. The wonderful thing about poetry is that while in the strictest academic sense there is a "right" way to interpret, poetry leaves itself so open that there is plenty of space for polite disagreement and discussion. Learners will listen to clips of readings, view the poems in a pre-constructed slideshow, and at the end try their hand at a favorite activity of mine for my Undergraduates, where a Dickinson poem is presented and students attempt to unscramble the lines back into their original format.