ENG 285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Creative Nonfiction, Genre Fiction, Free Verse
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Course description: an introductory course for students who wish to explore various forms of poetry, short-fiction, and creative nonfiction writing. Eng 285 or consent of instructor is prerequisite for eng 385, 386, 387. English 285 is an introduction to the crafts of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. English 285 gives students a sense of contemporary poetry, fiction, and nonfiction while providing a workshop setting and a writing community. Understanding that a poem is an object of art, observation, meditation, vision, and transformation. Appreciating what metaphor and simile are and how they enrich a poem. Using poetic terminology wisely and well in terms of your own work and the works of others (line, simile, metaphor, voice, verse, free verse, traditional verse, rhyme, stanza, image, end stop, enjambment, etc. Understanding that imagery, and the use of concrete, vivid, sensory detail is the life- blood of all forms, not abstraction. The importance of revision in triggering discovery.
