EGL 116 - Poetry of People and Places

Course Units: 1

In the song “In My Life,” John Lennon sings “Though I know I’ll never lose affection / for people and things that went before / I know I’ll often stop and think about them.” The speaker sings about “people and things” that have shaped and continue to inform his identity. In this class, we will study poems that impact a person’s sense of self and home. The poems we will read will explore history, family, place, race, class, gender, as well as love, sex, death, mourning, and joy, as these are the “stuff of life.”

100-level courses are open to all students. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, GCAD, GLIT