By Heart This colloquium will focus on how readers transact with selected works that celebrate Nature and the Life Force. Poetry happens like images taking form in photographic chemicals. Accordingly, I have prepared a CD on which units of multimedia record many of the poems assigned. In preparation, students are encouraged to read and record their initial responses to poems, assigned for class.
Attendance is crucial to receive credit.
Each student will have an option either to memorize some work from either of the two texts or to maintain a journal in which a record of initial and summative responses are documented. Poems as Puzzles 1. John Keats 2. Anne Stevenson 4. May Swenson 5.