Title: Poetic Language – An Introduction to Poetry
Headings: 4
Poetic Language

4 Poetic Language
Poet, Alice Fogel reads Robert Bly’s “Seeing the Eclipse in Maine.”
Alice B. Fogel, former New Hampshire state Poet Laureate, reads Maxine Kumin’s “After Love.”
Alice B. Fogel, former New Hampshire state Poet Laureate, reads John Donne’s ” A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.”
Alice Fogel, former New Hampshire state Poet Laureate, reads her poem, “Morning Glory.”
Literal and Figurative Language
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ted Talk: James Geary, Metaphorically Speaking
Video Lecture: Figurative Language
Some Poems:

Content: We did not explain how poems use language to do things. We will begin to answer t hat question here. We know that poems use sound (such as rhyme), and rhythm and lines. We’ll talk about these other things in later lectures. Here we will be thinking about how poems use figurative language to create meaning and experiences. Literal and Figurative Language
As we said, so-called figurative language is usually opposed to what is called literal language. Literal language is language that says exactly and directly what it means; it is language without figures. Figurative language then, as it is usually understood, is language that takes a kind of roundabout path to its meaning. It uses various devices to get you where it wants you to go.