ENG215

At the conclusion of this course, students should demonstrate the following competencies:

1.      the ability to identify and understand poetic devices;

2.      the ability to differentiate between the kinds of poetry according to form (open form, closed form) and content (narrative, lyric, dramatic, didactic);

3.      the ability to read more closely, understanding the relationship between how the poem is made (technique) and what it expresses;

4.      the ability to enlarge their “capacity to experience poetry.”