Program Details

Nature Poetry: God, Imagery & Beauty, and the Seasons

Instructor
Jeff Morgan
F242A
Video Catch-up
Available

Course Description

Explore classic and modern voices in Nature Poetry and find out how different voices address topics that are contextualized within history. How poets utilize formal elements such as denotation, connotation, imagery, figurative language, allusion, tone, and musical, lyrical devices that help the sound make sense will also be examined.
 


Lectures

  1. Nature and God, Part I: William Wordsworth, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman
  2.  Nature and God, Part 2: Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and Nancy Willard
  3.  Nature - Imagery and Beauty: William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dylan Thomas, E. E. Cummings, and Elizabeth Bishop
  4. Nature - Seasons: William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Carlos Williams, Jean Toomer, Richard Wilbur, and James Wright

About the Instructor

  • Jeffrey Morgan’s fourth book, "The (Un)Welcome Stranger: Intercultural Sensitivity in Six American Novels," came out in January 2023 through McFarland Press, and his fifth book, a book of poetry written with three others and called "The Universe Project," has been accepted by Finishing Line Press. He has been teaching for over forty years, currently at Lynn U., and earned his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve.