The course is a critical reading of selected modern poems, both artistic and rhetorical, to explore differences between modern and postmodern styles, methods, and attitudes in the Twentieth century. The course will analyze the often fractious but nourishing dynamics of formation and counter-formation in literature which govern the development of distinct schools and trends in poetry. In the process, it will look at poetics and different literary movements such as imagism, vorticism, open, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, performance poetry.
