Poetry & Poetics I is designed for those who are new to poetry as well as those who are experienced poets. The course is designed not only for those who wish to study the craft of poetry from a literary standpoint, but also for those who seek to analyze poems through the lens of a creative writer and would like to develop a deeper appreciation of poetry. The class provides students the unique opportunity to study poetry in an intensive reading course where representative poems from nearly all major poetic movements will be examined line by line with close attention to sound and sense, as well as to form and theory. The poems will also be examined in the appropriate historical and cultural context. There will also be a poetry writing and workshop component to this course as we enter the mind of the poet.