Reading and Writing Poetry | Federation University

BATCC2005 Reading and Writing Poetry

This unit is a study of a wide range of historical to contemporary poetry in the English language, focusing on poetic style, form, genre, and literary history. The unit addresses the theory and practice of using poetic techniques, such as symbolism, imagery and figurative language, rhyme, metre and special verse forms. Topics and genres may include traditional and literary ballad, special verse forms (such as the sonnet, villanelle, haiku or verse-novel), free verse, and contemporary spoken word poetry. The unit is designed to develop skills and confidence in understanding and critiquing poetry, and should be of value to creative writers or anyone working closely with language. Students will be introduced to a wide range of poetic texts and encouraged to explore and study their own texts in the context of poetic traditions and genres, as well as to engage directly with the writing of poetic texts in tutorial/workshop mode and/or for assessment.

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2026 contribution amount* $592
2026 grandfathered contribution amount^ $592

^ If you are a continuing student who commenced your course before 1 January 2021, you will continue paying the same amount as you would have, had legislative reforms not been implemented, for any units that would otherwise have an increased student contribution amount.

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