Elective course:Poetic Twitter 3200-M2-PF-TWP
This course treats a poem as a short comment on a current cultural, social or psychological phenomenon. Identification of a specific problem of our times will serve as a start point to discuss one poem. Then we will move on to talk about works and life of the author.
We will focus on the 19th and 20th Anglo-Saxon, Russian and Polish poetry, trying to guess e.g. how Zuzanna Gincznka would comment Brexit, Elisabeth Bishop - the Warsaw Uprising and Vladimir Mayakovsky - the fashion retail brands.
The poems we will read are chosen from a variety of genres and authors: Emily Dickinson, Marina Tsvetaeva, Arseni Tarkovsky, Elisabeth Bishop, W.B. Yeats, Zuzanna Ginczanka, Theodore Roethke Robert Frost, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak and more.
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Learning outcomes
Students:
-obtain knowledge about works and life of the chosen 19th and 20th century poets in the social, cultural and political context of their creative years;
- understand links between linguistics and literary criticism;
- know different structural aspects of a lyric poem;
- are able to identify different creteria to judge translation;
- are able to analyse a poem in reference to current events.
Assessment criteria
Attendance (min. 80%) and participation in the discussions.
Final test.
Bibliography
The lecture does not require any additional reading. Your knowledge of the most important content from the lecture will be enough to pass the final test.
The handouts with the poems will be provided during the lecture.
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