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Duration | 70 days |
Total fee | ₹19,400 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Course Level | UG Certificate |
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- Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university
What Does the Poem Think? Poetry, Thought and Language at Oxford University Course details
- For readers and writers of poetry, and people interested in the relation between thought, language, and expression
- Be knowledgeable about the relations between thought, language, and poetry
- To be able to discuss some of the difficulties that poets face in presenting or representing thought in poems
- The lyric poem presents language at its most subjective, but the identity of the lyric speaker remains mysterious or ambiguous
- Other modern approaches consider the act of creation itself, encouraging ways to gain access to our subconscious through automatic and other techniques
- Finally, we shall look at some of Heidegger's writings, and how they have influenced modern poetry
- To show the relations between language, thought, and poetry, from both a philosophical and practical, writerly perspective
What Does the Poem Think? Poetry, Thought and Language at Oxford University Curriculum
Week 0
An Introduction to Teams
Week 1
Classical ideas of poetry: Plato, inspiration, the Muse
Week 2
Lyric poetry as thought: the lyric self
Week 3
Ideas of poetry as immediacy: First thought best thought. The poetry notebook
Week 4
Metaphysical poetry as embodied thought. T S Eliot
Week 5
Coleridge and idealism. Fancy and Imagination. Wit or Wisdom
Week 6
The poem after the intentional fallacy and the death of the author. Freudian and post-structural views of the lyric
Week 7
Syntax as embodied thought. Language as thought's body. Bronk, Dickinson
Week 8
The nuts-and-bolts school of thinking and making a poem: Ted Hughes
Week 9
The gendered 'I' in lyric poetry. Denise Riley, Jan Zwicky, Lyn Hejinian
Week 10
The poem writes you. Heidegger and W S Graham
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