May 22, 2025  
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CWL 310 - Forms of Poetry


Study of the genre through readings, discussion and regular submission of original work. Course explores methods for expressing the human condition made available through poetry, with examples from the tradition of such tools as metaphor and image, sound, line, form, and juxtaposition. Areas of study include Powers of Poetry, Bright Containers: Form & Meter, and Methods & Madness, a study of the philosophical vs. visionary strains in poetry.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): CWL 202  

DEC: G

SBC: HFA+, WRTD

Repeatable: Course may be repeated as the topic changes.