Module: Poetry in Public

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Poetry in Public
Module Code	EL302 (ITS) / LIT1032 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	English
Module Co-ordinator	Michael Hinds
Module Teachers	Gearoid O'Flaherty
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

This module analyses poetry’s ability to explore themes and demonstrate ideas, focusing on its responsiveness to history, culture and politics. The module will move across history and tradition, demonstrating poetry’s ability to regenerate thematic discourses, both local and transnational.

Learning Outcomes

1. Show how poetry acts as a criticism of culture.
2. Compare and contrast poetry across a range of contexts and cultural situations.
3. Perform a close analysis of a poem that demonstrates how form and style relate to theme and subject matter.
4. Talk about poetry as a political medium.
5. Understand the continuities of theme that permeate the poetic tradition

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	21	Lectures
Tutorial	3	Tutorials
Independent Study	101	Independent Learning
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Poetry and Sexuality
Bawdy and scatology: Shakespeare, Rochester, Swift , Feminisms: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich

Poetry of Death and Grief
Milton, Tennyson, Hardy

Poetry and God
George Herbert, Henry Vaughan

Poetry and War
Anglo-Saxon war poetry (in translation), Isaac Rosenberg, Anna Ahkmatova

Poetry in Character
Robert Browning, modern dramatic monologues

Poetry, Protest and Politics
Marvell, Yeats, Auden, Dylan, Hip-Hop

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
In Class Test	Class test	25%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Cook, John: 2004, Poetry in Theory, Blackwell, Oxford,
John Lennard: 2006, The Poetry Handbook, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
Longley, Edna: 1999, Poetry and Posterity, Bloodaxe, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne,
Martigny, Erik: 2011, Poetic Genres, Blackwell, Oxford,
Michael Schmidt: 1999, The Lives of the Poets, Random House, New York,
Paulin, Tom: 0, Minotaur, Faber, London,

Other Resources

47141, Website, 0, Academy of American Poets, http://www.poets.org/, 47142, Website, 0, Norton Anthology of Poetry, http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nap/Poetry_Workshop.htm,