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EN3217   Writing Poetry

Academic year(s): 2023-2024

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 9

Semester: Both

Planned timetable: Semester 1: Monday 10-12 Semester 2: Tuesday 10-12

In this module students will explore some of the most common techniques, forms, and modes of poetry and will develop their practice as poets. The first half of the semester will focus on aspects of prosody such as metre and rhythm, rhyme and form, register, image, and metaphor, allowing students to reimagine these practices from the point of view of the writing, as well as the analysis, of poetry. The second half of the module will concentrate on some of the main genres of poetry, with students encouraged to experiment with their own versions or anti-versions of these modes. The first hour each week will be spent on an aspect of poetics, while the second hour will be spent workshopping student poems. By the end of the module students will have developed in their poetic practice and furthered their oral skills through the recitation of their poems, analysis of other students’ work in workshop, and through weekly discussion of set texts. Set reading will be provided each week on Moodle.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must take EN2004

Anti-requisite(s): You cannot take this module if you take EN4417 or take EN4420 or take EN4500

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 2-hour seminar and 2 optional consultative hours.

Scheduled learning hours: 40

Guided independent study hours: 280

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%

As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 0%
Practical examinations : 0%
Coursework: 100%

Re-assessment: exam = 100%

Personnel

Module coordinator: Ms K J Solie
Module teaching staff: Ms Anne Boyer
Module coordinator email kjs21@st-andrews.ac.uk

Intended learning outcomes

  • Demonstrate a knowledge of some of the most common techniques, forms and modes of poetry
  • Develop their own practice as poets
  • Reimagine poetic techniques such as meter and rhythm, form and free verse, image and trope, from the point of view of the writing, rather than the analysis, of poetry
  • Experiment with their own versions or anti-versions of some of the main genres of poetry, such as lyric and elegy