CRWR 284 - Subject and Object: Poetry as Fact and Feeling

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
For centuries, poems have been understood as vehicles of spontaneous feeling, of grief, or love, or longing. At the same time, they know themselves to be art objects: planned, plotted, and made. Through reading, writing, and rigorous revision, students will consider how poems negotiate the tensions between subjective experience and objective reality, between feeling and fact, between artifice and authenticity.