Modern Poetry: A Free Course with Certificate

Course: Modern Poetry Level: BS 6th Course Code: ELL 305 Course Description: This course aims at teaching critical analysis of modern poetry and, thus, developing an understanding of the aesthetic and intellectual contexts in which it was produced. The beginning and ending of modernist period are arbitrary, however, it is generally agreed that works written between 1890 and 1950 in North America and Western Europe follow the modernist tradition. The course will examine the roles of poets like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, who are credited with radical shifts in style and content from their predecessors, to introduce modernist aesthetics in poetry. The students will do close reading of poems to discern differences in poetic style and idiom of authors. T.S. Eliot The Literary Legacy of T.S. Eliot The Wasteland: Original Text The Wasteland: Analysis The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Hollow Men: Original Text The Hollow Men: Analysis Ezra Pound Ezra Pound: The Poet and Literary Critic W…