Writing Poetry

$299.00

WRIT 047 | High School | 0.50 Credit Hours

This course is designed to improve and enhance students' own poetic skills by teaching them how poets use the language devices of sound, sensory images, figurative expressions, and musical rhythms to share their insights through word-art. Throughout the course, students will experiment with traditional formats and with many free-verse styles of poetry.

WRIT 047 | High School | 0.50 Credit Hours

This course is designed to improve and enhance students' own poetic skills by teaching them how poets use the language devices of sound, sensory images, figurative expressions, and musical rhythms to share their insights through word-art. Throughout the course, students will experiment with traditional formats and with many free-verse styles of poetry.

Course Details

  • 1. Beginnings: Origins of Poetry
    2. Listening to Language: Literary Devices of Sound
    3. Making Sense: Understanding Sensory Words
    4. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day...? Using Figurative Language
    5. Musical Measurements: Rhythm and Meter
    6. Casting Off Conventions: Ideas for Free Verse

  • All of the text required for this class is included in the course already. Make sure you have access to a good dictionary, however. Any first person references (I, me, my, etc.) in the course content refer to the author of the course, not your instructor. Also, I would recommend attaining a writing notebook to complete writing assignments in throughout the course.