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Politics of love poetry syllabus Week 1 - 2 Identity How are our identities formed and sustained? How does love poetry reflect conceptions of "I" through poetic techniques or traditions? Reading: I am a Strange Loop Week 3 How have women writers used their identities in writing love poetry? How does a feminine identity entail multiplicity and how are some identities "inherently political?" Reading: Irigaray, excerpts from "The sex which is not one", selected poems from British women  Romantic Poets anthology Week 4 Continue analyzing the inherent politics of identities and of some identities in particular. How does poetry and even specially love poetry work as a historical mapping of political climates and oppressions of marginalized groups and identities? What poetic techniques assist with this? Reading: continued exploration of British romantic poets, highlighting poetic techniques they use and how these are representative of class, ...