Tag: poetry class

• Teaching the Ghazal in Class

  

  Last week I was subbing at the Vrije Universteit for the Genre, Literature and Analysis class for the Bachelor First Year course. I was teaching the villanelle and ghazal, which involved aspects of the forms as well as close reading. I found myself in a room full of bright, intelligent, engaged, and wise students. They…

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  20 Nov 2017

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• This Is Just To Say – William Carlos Williams

  

  Poem: “This Is Just To Say” Poet: William Carlos Williams, 1883 – 1963 I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold Why this poem (in one line): I first read this poem as part of my…

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  6 Jul 2014

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