OSHER 924 - Poetry for Enrichment

Good poetry, properly presented, deepens your experience and makes life richer. Using poems by Poe, Herbert, Frost and others about ordinary life--beauty, death, love, war, disappointment, loneliness, faith, and joy--we will expand your enjoyment of poetry, even if you've never thought about poetry and enjoyment in the same sentence. Some of the poems we will study are funny, some are sad; all are worthwhile. We will read all poems together and discover their sounds, forms, and meaning(s) using "Ellefsen's Rules for Loving Poetry."