"Swan Songs: endings and new beginnings in modernist poems"
Join us for a friendly online taster lecture to support your current studies and find out what it might be like to study English literature at university.
Session time: Wednesday 27 November, 13.35-14.20
In this Literature/Poetry session with Dr Holly Corfield Carr, award-winning poet and Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, you’ll be exploring how to pay particular attention to endings in modernist poetry.
From the technical to the cultural, you’ll learn how to recognise, read and analyse different types of ending, from the power of a line break to the flourish of a poem’s final line, while considering how poets during the interwar period were thinking about change, hope and the future.
We’ll be looking closely at a pair of poems published a little over a decade apart—Edna St. Vincent Millay’s ‘Wild Swans’ (1921) and Marianne Moore’s ‘No Swan So Fine’ (1932)—and while this session will be particularly useful for those who are studying these poets, the session will offer a toolkit of close reading techniques designed to build confidence and creativity in the way students might engage with poetry more broadly.
Suitable for: Year 12 & 13 students (and equivalent) studying, or with a possible interest in studying, English Literature and related disciplines.
For details and to book your place, visit:
https://www.channeltalent.co.uk/event/english-literature-swan-songs-endings-and-new-beginnings-in-modernist-poems-with-dr-holly-corfield-carr-from-university-of-east-anglia/