Mar 29, 2024  
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WRI 147 - Poetry Lab on Metaphor

Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters

An examination of the nature of metaphor in language and the function of metaphor in creative writing, especially the students’ own work. Analysis of the precise nature of the difference between metaphor and analogy, metaphor and sign, metaphor and symbol. Exploration of how poets - and writers in general - contextualize and materialize metaphor, focusing on metaphor as a vehicle of discovery in the work of Atwood, Dickinson, Shakespeare, and Garcia-Lorca.