Playing with Poetry: Creative Writing and Poetics
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Playing with Poetry: Creative Writing and Poetics at FutureLearn Overview
Playing with Poetry: Creative Writing and Poetics
at FutureLearn
Duration | 3 weeks |
Total fee | ₹7,249 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Playing with Poetry: Creative Writing and Poetics
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Playing with Poetry: Creative Writing and Poetics at FutureLearn Highlights
Playing with Poetry: Creative Writing and Poetics
at FutureLearn
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate.
Playing with Poetry: Creative Writing and Poetics at FutureLearn Course details
Playing with Poetry: Creative Writing and Poetics
at FutureLearn
Skills you will learn
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- Poetry often has the reputation of being an abstract and complicated form of expression, guarded by the pretentious elite.
- On this three-week course, you will discover the fun and value that can be found in writing your own poetry.
- This practical and hands-on course gives you the opportunity to learn the common rules of poetry and then decide how best to turn those rules into an enjoyable creative writing experience.
- What is the effect of rhythm and rhyme on a poem? Does it matter where we decide to start a new line? How do we make use of the power of the lyric? On the course, you will explore these questions and learn how to answer them with confidence.
- You will cover topics such as the basics of poetry, lineation, creative writing, and lyric poetry to gain a comprehensive understanding of the techniques and theories used to shape a poem.
- This course will equip you with the knowledge needed to start writing poetry as well as showing you the fun and creative side of poetics.
- Learning from David Musgrave, poet, and teacher of Creative Writing and English literature at the University of Newcastle, you will finish the course with the skills and confidence to unleash your inner poet.
Playing with Poetry: Creative Writing and Poetics at FutureLearn Curriculum
Playing with Poetry: Creative Writing and Poetics
at FutureLearn
The Basics of Poetry
Gather 'Round!
What the Heck is Poetry?
Open to Interpretation
Finding the Line
Line Management
em?FA?sis
Funk it Up: Terminals
To Lyricise or Not to Lyricise
How Does it Feel?
Simon West Poems
Bonny Cassidy Poems
Funk it up: Deer Head Nation
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