Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Control word choices and word order to create a particular mood or tone
• Explore ideas using different tones or personas
• Employ metaphors, similes, symbols and other forms of figurative language
• Employ sound as a device, through alliteration, assonance, etc.
• Use meter and rhyme
• Identify the characteristics of conventional poetic forms, as well as open form poetry
• Critique works in progress
• Edit final drafts in a collection of their poetry
• Identify publication methods for poetry