| 0626.2315 שירה רומנטית Romantic Poetry | |
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| ד"ר עידית אלפנדרי Dr. Idit Alphandary | שו"ת |
| The course introduces the major romantic poets and studies their most enduring works of poetry and prose.
The course explores the diverse meanings of imagination, as they appear in the works of the different poets. It analyzes the image of the struggle between desire and reason in Blake, and of the dialectic of innocence and experience in his poetry. What is the source of evil in the human mind, and how does poetic imagination restore a human being according to Blake? While students are reading The Prelude, they will study the phases of “growth of a poet’s mind,” in Wordsworth’s phrase. In the evening of the end of the Prelude, students will attend class again, to view a screening of the movie Nell from 1994. Next, students will explore the innovations that Wordsworth and Coleridge introduce to poetic diction in Lyrical Ballads. While reading Coleridge, students will elucidate the relation between imagination, poetic representation, and perception that emerges from his poems, including Kubla Kahn. While reading Lord Byron students will concentrate on central thematic concepts in his poetry, such as youth, love, exile and egoism. The course also explains the relation between poetry and power, or blankness, which appears in Shelley’s poetry. We will wind up the course with two considerations of Romantic poets and their poetry by those closest to them: We will look at Keats’s understanding of beauty and its relation to culture and history, and from his letters students will understand how the poet perceives the older generation of romantic poets and the poetic task that they undertook. In their reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, students will also explain the importance of self-creation, and the aspects of good and evil that inhabit man. | |
| הערות: סמסטר א' | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 24/01/2005 בשעה 12:30 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 04/03/2005 בשעה 9:00 | |