Department: German Studies

Code Name Description
GERMAN101 Germany in 5 Words This course explores German history, culture and politics by tracing five (largely untranslatable) words and exploring the debates they have engendered in Germany over the past 200 years. This course is intended as preparation for students wishing to...
GERMAN106 Turkish-German Literature, Cinema, and Theater One in five people in Germany now has, as it is termed, a background of migration. Immigration from Turkey is probably the most prominent not only in terms of its massiveness and demographic consequences, but also for its significant role in changing...
GERMAN109 The End of Europe (as we know it) - Germany and the Future of the European Union Europe is struggling with the impact of the sovereign debt crisis of the Eurozone, mass migration, political extremism and xenophobia, external and internal security challenges, as well as political and social needs for reform to mention only some of...
GERMAN111 The End of the Western World (as we know it): German Responses to Global Challenges Germany defines its foreign policy being based on two pillars: being a part of an integrated Europe and belonging to the Western World. For decades, America and Europe have remained closely connected politically, economically, and culturally. This cl...
GERMAN115 The Queer 20th Century: German LGBTQ Literature and Film What was it like to be queer in 20th-century Germany? This course examines the rich and sometimes surprising LGBTQ culture of 20th-century Germany, featuring stories that are often left out of traditional seminars. Through literature and film, we wil...
GERMAN116 Writing About Germany: New Topics, New Genres Writing about various topics in German Studies. Topics based on student interests: current politics, economics, European affairs, start-ups in Germany. Intensive focus on writing. Students may write on their experience at Stanford in Berlin or their...
GERMAN120 Contemporary Politics in Germany This course provides an opportunity to engage with issues and actors, politicians and parties in contemporary Germany, while building German language abilities. We will work with current events texts, news reports, speeches and websites. Course goals...
GERMAN120A Berlin: Literature and Culture in the 20th Century and Beyond For much of the twentieth century Berlin has been at the epicentre of geopolitics, the Berlin Wall standing as the physical manifestation of a fragile world order. Huge social and political upheavals in the city have inspired much cultural production...
GERMAN120B Fairy Tales Fairy tales loom largely in our lives. They are 'weird,' but not shallow or irrelevant: they tell the 'extraordinary' in different traditions and facilitate cross-and transcultural dialogues between them. In this course, we will read German fairy tal...
GERMAN120C German in Public: 99 German Songs Germany is the land of Beethoven and Brahms, but has also given the world Marlene Dietrich, Nena, and Rammstein. This course aims to introduce you to a variety of music repertories, and a range of ways through popular songs to think and talk about 20...
GERMAN120D The German Graphic Novel This course is an introduction to the history, theory, and social life of German graphic novels. We will look at early examples of text-and-image (Sebastian Brant's "Ship of Fools," a satire published in 1497, Heinrich Hoffmann's "Der Struwwelpeter,"...
GERMAN125 Nietzsche: Life as Performance Nietzsche famously considered that "there is no 'being' behind the deed, its effect, and what becomes of it; the 'doer' is invented as an afterthought - the doing is everything." How should we understand this idea of a deed without a doer, how might...
GERMAN130 Rainer Maria Rilke: Poetry and the Meaning of Life One of the greatest poets of the modern era, Rilke offers in his poetry lasting images of nature, love, and aesthetic beauty. At the same time, Rilke's poetry is a unique form of human thought. Many of his poems are poetic meditations on the meaning...
GERMAN130A A History of German Opera When we think of opera, and perhaps especially German opera, a list of stereotypes immediately springs to mind: tenors who refuse to die, horned helmets and blond braids, an artform so elite that it has lost all relevance in the contemporary world. W...
GERMAN131 What is German Literature? How have migration and minority discourses changed the German literary and cultural tradition? What is German literature today, and how does it differ from the traditional notion of Germany as the land of "Dichter und Denker?" We will read texts by G...
GERMAN132 Politics in 20th Century German Literature Is there a difference between art and propaganda? How do writers express their political values? Who gets to decide what counts as literature? Or who counts as German? This introductory course will focus on these questions and more as we discuss work...
GERMAN133 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud We read and discuss selections from works by the key master thinkers who have exerted a lasting influence by debunking long-cherished beliefs. Do these authors uphold or repudiate Enlightenment notions of rationality, autonomy and progress? How do th...
GERMAN134 Migration and Nation in Contemporary Literature This course focuses on representations of migration in contemporary German-language literature. As a result of the ongoing war in Ukraine, Europe is currently witnessing the largest displacement of humans in a century--and this not far on the heels o...
GERMAN135 German Conversation This small, individualized course will offer students the chance to work on their spoken expression and critical thinking, in German. Topics will change each quarter but will span contemporary politics and culture, film, literature, and visual arts....
GERMAN13Q Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Modern This three-quarter sequence asks big questions of major texts in the European and American tradition. What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? What du...
GERMAN140 German Sports Culture and History The course highlights specificities and societal contexts of sports in Germany and thus provides a unique point of access for understanding German culture in past and present. Concepts of competition and performance will be examined, as well as the r...
GERMAN141 The Magic Mountain: Your Travel Guide to a Great Novel In this course, students will read their way through one of the great German novels, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg, 1924) an epic stock-taking of European thought and sensibility between the world wars. Students will meet and discu...
GERMAN141A Mephisto: Your Travel Guide to a Great Novel In this course, students will read their way through one of the most disputed German novels in the postwar Federal Republic, Klaus Mann's "Mephisto" (1936 published in exile in Amsterdam) a satirical novel about opportunism and the German theater sce...
GERMAN141C Gottfried's "Tristan and Isolde" - Your Travel Guide to a Great Novel Does true love have to break with the rules and norms of society? Gottfried's "Tristan and Isolde," a masterpiece of medieval epic poetry, follows this question through its portrayal of a tragic romance. The course will close-read, analyze and discus...
GERMAN142 Feminist Avant Garde Feminist Avant Garde
GERMAN144 German Media Theory In this seminar, we will interrogate major currents in media-theoretical work from the German-speaking world from the 1980s to today. Starting from the surprisingly controversial term 'German media theory' itself, which has been described as 'neither...
GERMAN147 The Conservative Revolution Rapid modernization in early twentieth-century Germany elicited various conservative criticisms, which became particularly acute after the First World War. The thinkers of the Conservative Revolution gave voice to post-Nietzschean concerns about cult...
GERMAN149 Babylon Berlin Berlin, 1929. A police inspector and his unlikely partner, a typist and aspiring homicide detective, turn up the case of a lifetime: a far-reaching political conspiracy in the capital of a democracy on the edge. Part noir detective thriller, part his...
GERMAN150 Masterpieces: Kafka This class will address major works by Franz Kafka and consider Kafka as a modernist writer whose work reflects on modernity. We will also examine the role of Kafka's themes and poetics in the work of contemporary writers.
GERMAN153 Marx: Politics and Culture Few thinkers can lay claim to the level of sustained impact Karl Marx has achieved. From eco-socialist movements to contemporary investigations of digital capitalism, Marx's grip on the political and cultural imagination has only been further solidif...
GERMAN157 What kind of Information is Poetry "Only a fool reads poetry for facts": To read a poem with the same fact-seeking attention required by using a dictionary, reading a newspaper article, or following a recipe is, perhaps, foolish. But if it is, it is so only because it means the reader...
GERMAN174 The Poem as Medium Since Marshall McLuhan formulated his theory of "media" as "extensions of ourselves," we've come to understand the history of human communication in terms of its physical carriers, tools, and technologies. From cuneiform, hieroglyphs, and logographic...
GERMAN175 CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin,...
GERMAN181 Philosophy and Literature Can novels make us better people? Can movies challenge our assumptions? Can poems help us become who we are? We'll think about these and other questions with the help of writers like Toni Morrison, Marcel Proust, Jordan Peele, Charlie Kaufman, Rachel...
GERMAN185 Understanding International Politics Today: From the German Philosophers to Modern Social Science This course is being offered in collaboration with Stanford in Berlin, Bing Overseas Study Program. International politics is beset by problems. States go to war. The global economy is volatile and unequal. The human community is divided into multipl...
GERMAN188 In Search of the Holy Grail: Percival's Quest in Medieval Literature This course focuses on one of the most famous inventions of the Middle Ages: the Holy Grail. The grail - a mysterious vessel with supernatural properties - is first mentioned in Chrétien de Troyes' "Perceval," but the story is soon rewritten by autho...
GERMAN189 KRUPP-FLEX: Work-Life Balance in Today's Germany This class is being offered in collaboration with Stanford in Berlin, Bing Overseas Studies Program. This course will accompany and deepen the experience of Krupp Interns living and working in German cities and towns in summer 2021. Their participant...
GERMAN191 German Capstone Project Each student participates in a capstone interview and discussion with a panel of the German Studies faculty on topics related to German cultural and literary analysis. In prepration for the interview/discussion, students submit written answers to a s...
GERMAN199 Individual Work Repeatable for Credit. Instructor Consent Required
GERMAN206 Turkish-German Literature, Cinema, and Theater One in five people in Germany now has, as it is termed, a background of migration. Immigration from Turkey is probably the most prominent not only in terms of its massiveness and demographic consequences, but also for its significant role in changing...
GERMAN213 Medieval Germany, 900-1250 (Undergraduates may sign up for German 213 or History 213F, graduate students should sign up for German 313 or History 313F. This course may be taken for variable units. Check the individual course numbers for unit spreads.) This course will provide...
GERMAN215 The Queer 20th Century: German LGBTQ Literature and Film What was it like to be queer in 20th-century Germany? This course examines the rich and sometimes surprising LGBTQ culture of 20th-century Germany, featuring stories that are often left out of traditional seminars. Through literature and film, we wil...
GERMAN222 Myth and Modernity Masters of German 20th- and 21st-Century literature and philosophy as they present aesthetic innovation and confront the challenges of modern technology, social alienation, manmade catastrophes, and imagine the future. Readings include Nietzsche, Fre...
GERMAN230 German Literature (800-1700) As a survey of medieval and early modern German literature, this seminar is reading intensive. In order to help structure reading and discussions, we will examine these texts from a variety of perspectives, especially Global Medieval Studies. Along t...
GERMAN231 German Literature (1700-1900) How the literature of the period between 1750 and 1900 gives voice to new conceptions of selfhood and articulates the emergent self-understanding of modernity. Responses to unprecedented historical experiences such as the French Revolution and the en...
GERMAN232 German Literature 3: Modernity and the Unspeakable Masterpieces of German literature, drama, and film from the first half of the 20th century. Particular focus on modernism and the crisis of language. What urgent truths (whether psychological, political, spiritual, or sexual) cannot be expressed, a...
GERMAN233 Rainer Maria Rilke: Poetry and the Meaning of Life One of the greatest poets of the modern era, Rilke offers in his poetry lasting images of nature, love, and aesthetic beauty. At the same time, Rilke's poetry is a unique form of human thought. Many of his poems are poetic meditations on the meaning...
GERMAN234 Media Theory and the Sea This seminar serves as an introduction to media theory by turning to the sea as a medium. Designed for third- and fourth-year German majors, the course explores the way the ocean has served as a constant vehicle for poetic and philosophical reflectio...
GERMAN235 German Conversation This small, individualized course will offer students the chance to work on their spoken expression and critical thinking, in German. Topics will change each quarter but will span contemporary politics and culture, film, literature, and visual arts....
GERMAN237 Fascism after Fascism When World War II ended, most of the states that described themselves as "fascist" ended with it. Nevertheless, fascism haunted postwar democracy as an ever-present threat. The question of what exactly had characterized fascism, and what parts of it...
GERMAN239 Queer Theory Do we really need a theory in order to be queer? Queer Theory emerged in response to feminist thought, and the study of the history of sexuality, building on their insights, but also uncovering their blind spots. Without Queer Theory, few of the disc...
GERMAN240 Route-Place-Object: Re-defining "Cultural Landscape" in Medieval Germany In modern perception, the definition of Germany's various cultural landscapes often follows narratives of regional remoteness and aesthetic coherency. Today's Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse makes a case in point. Ever since the Brothers Grimm co...
GERMAN253 Hannah Arendt: Facing Totalitarianism Like hardly any other thinker of the modern age, Hannah Arendt's thought offers us timeless insights into the fabric of the modern age, especially regarding the perennial danger of totalitarianism. This course offers an in-depth introduction to Arend...
GERMAN255 Speaking Medieval: Ecologies of Inscribed Objects This class presents a survey of medieval German vernaculars and their documentation in manuscripts and on material objects. The languages include Gothic, Old Norse, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old English, and Old High German. Readings will include runic...
GERMAN256 Thomas Bernhard This is a course about the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, his work, and his time.
GERMAN261 Theorie des Erzählens This course approaches the history of narrative theory from the German perspective: we will read canonical and foundational texts that have shaped the way we read and study narrative - from the usual suspects (Gerard Genette, Yuri Lotman, Tzvetan Tod...
GERMAN263 Paul Celan: The Poetic Event Paul Celan (1920-1970) is one of the greatest poets of our time. Touching on philosophy, history, our relation to nature, and love, his poetry is a profound meditation on the modern human condition. This course will present some of Celan's best work...
GERMAN266 Questions of Political Theology How does theology inform culture and politics in our age of high technology? Are there religious underpinnings in the contemporary world to categories of creativity, charisma and community? This course explores theoretical approaches to the ongoing...
GERMAN267 Prospects for Transatlantic Relations: What Holds the West Together? This seminar treats contemporary issues in trans-Atlantic relations including topics such as challenges to the international order (Russia), economics of inflation and energy transition, and democracy under stress. Preparation of individual research...
GERMAN268 Socialism: Theory, Literature, Practice The prospect of socialism has circulated in the cultural and political programs of many countries, and socialist programs have informed the real governance structures in some. This course examines some of the theoretical texts that have described soc...
GERMAN270 Sovereignty and the Limits of Globalization and Technology Current opposition to globalization is emerging in many countries in the various forms of populism, restrictive trade policies, protest parties and localism, accompanied by appeals to national interests and cultural traditions. At stake is the reasse...
GERMAN274 Wonder: The Event of Art and Literature What falls below, or beyond, rational inquiry? How do we write about the awe we feel in front of certain works of art, in reading lines of poetry or philosophy, or watching a scene in a film without ruining the feeling that drove us to write in the f...
GERMAN275 Outer Space Exploration in Germany in the Twentieth Century Since the nineteenth century, Germans, like their counterparts around the world, have considered the meaning and the role of humanity in outer space. As space travel developed from a dream to a reality, and as Germany changed borders and political sy...
GERMAN276 Martin Heidegger: Off the Beaten Track Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential and contested philosophers of the modern era. This seminar will offer close readings of Heidegger's first book following the Second World War: Martin Heidegger: Off the Beaten Track (Holzwege). We will...
GERMAN277 Technology and Culture Between Stagnation or Progress Examination of relations between technology and culture through a series of conversations with Peter Thiel, concerning the conditions and limits of progress. How does creativity happen? What gets in the way of change? Discussions of innovation with r...
GERMAN280 Feminist Avant-Garde Art in Germany and Beyond (1968-2019) In "Woman's Art: A Manifesto" (1972), the artist, performer and filmmaker Valie Export (1940) proposed the transfer of women's experience into an art context and considered the body "a signal bearer of meaning and communication." In reconceptualizing...
GERMAN281 G.W.F. Hegel: System, History, Dialectics This course is intended to introduce students to the study of G.W.F. Hegel. The seminar will read several of Hegel's central works and discuss his reception in the later 19th and 20th century.
GERMAN283 Directed Reading: Second Language Acquisition This Directed Reading focuses on key works in the research area of second-language acquisition with a specific emphasis on German language learning, by permission only.
GERMAN284 Directed Reading: Academic Writing in German This course focuses on writing elegant and interesting academic texts in German to enable better collaboration with German-speaking academics. It entails practice with text production in German through practical tips and helpful phrases and familiar...
GERMAN285 Post-Colonial and Post-Shoah Readings: The Conundrums of Memory Politics In April of 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a huge controversy erupted in Germany on the relation between Postcolonial and Holocaust Studies. Previously, in 2012, Judith Butler on the occasion of being awarded the Adorno Prize was assailed for he...
GERMAN286 Forming the world: Pragmatism and Aesthetics This course will explore key pragmatist philosophical and theoretical approaches to literature, the visual arts, and music. How are human lives mediated by and through aesthetic experience, in the realm of the private as well as the public. Rather th...
GERMAN287 Hope in the Modern Age Immanuel Kant famously considered "What may I hope?" to be the third and final question of philosophy. This course considers the thinkers, from Immanuel Kant to Judith Butler, who have attempted to answer this question from within the context of mode...
GERMAN289 Directed Reading: The Role of Metaphor in Language Learning. This course reviews the research literature on metaphor with a particular emphasis on literary comprehension.
GERMAN313 Medieval Germany, 900-1250 (Undergraduates may sign up for German 213 or History 213F, graduate students should sign up for German 313 or History 313F. This course may be taken for variable units. Check the individual course numbers for unit spreads.) This course will provide...
GERMAN319 Modern Theatre Modern theatre in Europe and the US, with a focus on the most influential works from roughly 1880 to the present. What were the conventions of theatrical practice that modern theatre displaced? What were the principal innovations of modern playwrit...
GERMAN322 Myth and Modernity Masters of German 20th- and 21st-Century literature and philosophy as they present aesthetic innovation and confront the challenges of modern technology, social alienation, manmade catastrophes, and imagine the future. Readings include Nietzsche, Fre...
GERMAN325 Nietzsche: Life as Performance Nietzsche famously considered that "there is no 'being' behind the deed, its effect, and what becomes of it; the 'doer' is invented as an afterthought - the doing is everything." How should we understand this idea of a deed without a doer, how might...
GERMAN330 German Literature (800-1700) As a survey of medieval and early modern German literature, this seminar is reading intensive. In order to help structure reading and discussions, we will examine these texts from a variety of perspectives, especially Global Medieval Studies. Along t...
GERMAN331 German Literature (1700-1900) How the literature of the period between 1750 and 1900 gives voice to new conceptions of selfhood and articulates the emergent self-understanding of modernity. Responses to unprecedented historical experiences such as the French Revolution and the en...
GERMAN332 German Literature 3: Modernity and the Unspeakable Masterpieces of German literature, drama, and film from the first half of the 20th century. Particular focus on modernism and the crisis of language. What urgent truths (whether psychological, political, spiritual, or sexual) cannot be expressed, a...
GERMAN334 Media Theory and the Sea This seminar serves as an introduction to media theory by turning to the sea as a medium. Designed for third- and fourth-year German majors, the course explores the way the ocean has served as a constant vehicle for poetic and philosophical reflectio...
GERMAN335 Marx: Politics and Culture Few thinkers can lay claim to the level of sustained impact Karl Marx has achieved. From eco-socialist movements to contemporary investigations of digital capitalism, Marx's grip on the political and cultural imagination has only been further solidif...
GERMAN340 Route-Place-Object: Re-defining "Cultural Landscape" in Medieval Germany In modern perception, the definition of Germany's various cultural landscapes often follows narratives of regional remoteness and aesthetic coherency. Today's Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse makes a case in point. Ever since the Brothers Grimm co...
GERMAN342 Feminist Avant Garde Feminist Avant Garde
GERMAN343 World War Two: Place, Loss, History A consideration of how the Second World War still goes on today in the form of haunted absences and vivid representations. Studying literature and art in detail, the seminar will center on some of the places where those absences and representations g...
GERMAN344 German Media Theory In this seminar, we will interrogate major currents in media-theoretical work from the German-speaking world from the 1980s to today. Starting from the surprisingly controversial term 'German media theory' itself, which has been described as 'neither...
GERMAN347 The Conservative Revolution Rapid modernization in early twentieth-century Germany elicited various conservative criticisms, which became particularly acute after the First World War. The thinkers of the Conservative Revolution gave voice to post-Nietzschean concerns about cult...
GERMAN353 Hannah Arendt: Facing Totalitarianism Like hardly any other thinker of the modern age, Hannah Arendt's thought offers us timeless insights into the fabric of the modern age, especially regarding the perennial danger of totalitarianism. This course offers an in-depth introduction to Arend...
GERMAN356 Thomas Bernhard This is a course about the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, his work, and his time.
GERMAN357 What kind of Information is Poetry "Only a fool reads poetry for facts": To read a poem with the same fact-seeking attention required by using a dictionary, reading a newspaper article, or following a recipe is, perhaps, foolish. But if it is, it is so only because it means the reader...
GERMAN358 Seminar in Medieval German Studies In this weekly seminar we will read primary materials, and important scholarship, and discuss ongoing debates and trends in medieval studies. The reading list will be determined in consultation with the participants; students will be invited to share...
GERMAN361 Theorie des Erzählens This course approaches the history of narrative theory from the German perspective: we will read canonical and foundational texts that have shaped the way we read and study narrative - from the usual suspects (Gerard Genette, Yuri Lotman, Tzvetan Tod...
GERMAN363 Paul Celan: The Poetic Event Paul Celan (1920-1970) is one of the greatest poets of our time. Touching on philosophy, history, our relation to nature, and love, his poetry is a profound meditation on the modern human condition. This course will present some of Celan's best work...
GERMAN366 Questions of Political Theology How does theology inform culture and politics in our age of high technology? Are there religious underpinnings in the contemporary world to categories of creativity, charisma and community? This course explores theoretical approaches to the ongoing...
GERMAN367 Prospects for Transatlantic Relations: What Holds the West Together? This seminar treats contemporary issues in trans-Atlantic relations including topics such as challenges to the international order (Russia), economics of inflation and energy transition, and democracy under stress. Preparation of individual research...
GERMAN369 Introduction to the Profession of Literary Studies A survey of how literary theory and other methods have been made institutional since the nineteenth century. The readings and conversation are designed for entering Ph.D. students in the national literature departments and comparative literature.
GERMAN374 The Poem as Medium Since Marshall McLuhan formulated his theory of "media" as "extensions of ourselves," we've come to understand the history of human communication in terms of its physical carriers, tools, and technologies. From cuneiform, hieroglyphs, and logographic...
GERMAN375 The Sustainability of the Human Record What happens in the year 12,021 when future generations seek to understand the extensive record of human endeavour, experience, and life, today and previously? What will constitute a future Rosetta Stone that makes accessible surviving monuments, tex...
GERMAN388 In Search of the Holy Grail: Percival's Quest in Medieval Literature This course focuses on one of the most famous inventions of the Middle Ages: the Holy Grail. The grail - a mysterious vessel with supernatural properties - is first mentioned in Chrétien de Troyes' "Perceval," but the story is soon rewritten by autho...
GERMAN396 German Studies Lecture Series What's happening in German Studies today? The GSLS invites 3 speakers per quarter to present on their work and research in German literature, culture, politics, and history, offering students an insight into the current field of German Studies and an...
GERMAN397 Graduate Studies Colloquium Colloquium for graduate students in German Studies. Taught in English. May be repeated for credit.
GERMAN398 Dissertation Prospectus Colloquium Repeatable for Credit
GERMAN399 Individual Work Repeatable for Credit. Instructor Consent Required.
GERMAN57N Nietzsche and the Search for Meaning Many of us have heard his declarations of the death of God, the arrival of the Superman, and the need to live beyond good and evil. But what, beyond such sound bites, did Nietzsche actually teach? How can his writings be understood in the context o...
GERMAN60N German Crime Crime is as old as humanity, as old as storytelling. Cain's murder of Abel, Antigone's burial of Polynices, Robin Hood's robbing from the rich: all of these testify to the ongoing fascination with crime and criminality, and to literature's role in po...
GERMAN680 Curricular Practical Training CPT course required for international students completing degree. Prerequisite: German Studies Ph.D candidate.
GERMAN68N Franz Kafka: Literature and the Modern Human Condition This class will address major works by Franz Kafka and consider Kafka as a modernist writer whose work reflects on modernity. We will also examine the role of Kafka's themes and poetics in the work of contemporary writers.
GERMAN75N Famous Last Words What would you say if you knew it would be the last thing you would ever say? Who would you want to hear your words? Would you want to inspire somebody? Terrify them? Shout your defiance or your love in their direction?This is a course about last wor...
GERMAN802 TGR Dissertation No Description Set
GERMAN97 10 Poems That Will Change Your Life This course is for anyone who has ever been afraid of poetry, anyone who has ever thought that poems are too difficult to understand, a course for anyone who has fallen in love with poetry before, and for anyone who has used a poem to make a differen...