I. Context: place, class, gender, poetic (non) career.

II. Poetic Form and Techniques

          A. off-rhymes and metric instability.

          B. idiosyncratic punctuation.   

          C. non-syntactical, telegraphic fragments. 

          D. "Mixed" or startling metaphors. 

          E. "Mixed" diction: everyday/technical; Latin/Saxon, etc.

          F. non-autobiographical "I" differs among poems, dramatizes an attitude or an experience.

          G. motivating event for the poem is not stated.  What you do with experience, not what the experience is externally, constitutes consciousness, and consciousness is life. 

          H. Some contexts cannot be known, even to the experiencing consciousness; or, cannot be said: especially death and madness. So:

III.  Poetry at and about the limits

IV. Reading some poems; time permitting: 49, 67, 130, 241, 258, 287, 328, 465, 501, 822, 1732