The Poetry Of Precarity

This course will introduce you to the different aesthetic models and figurative tools poets across different time periods used to come to terms with political, economic, and social insecurity. You will examine poetry from a variety of genres (pastorals, georgics, elegies, sonnets, free-verse) alongside work in other fields, including anthropology, environmental studies, and sociology. In doing so, you will not only consider the experiences of precarity and the structures that enable it from a variety of cultural perspectives, but also experiment with understanding contemporary experiences of precarity from a historical point-of-view.