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How to Read French Poetry 

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How to Read French Poetry
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Overview

Duration

5 weeks

Total fee

2,093

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

How to Read French Poetry
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How to Read French Poetry
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FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Weekly study 3 hours
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How to Read French Poetry
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FutureLearn 
Course details

Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • This course will equip with a poetic toolkit to boost reading comprehension of French poetry
  • This course will help you to approach French poetry with confidence
  • The poetic toolkit developed in this course will help you understand poetic form, poetic language

How to Read French Poetry
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Week 1 Two key questions and assembling the toolkit

Getting started

Looking at five poems

The second question

Week 2 Form, structure and versification

Introducing the alexandrine

Form and structure in free verse

Week 3 Voice, verbs and repetition of structures

Listening to the voice

The vitality of verbs

What I tell you three times is true

Week 4 Allusion, vocabulary and the development of imagery.

Picking up the clues

Emotional and analytical responses - putting it all together.

Emotional response

Putting it all together

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