Empowering Poetic Defiance

Empowering Poetic Defiance: Baudelaire, Kant and Poetic Agency in the Classroom Many strategies for incorporating poetry into non-poetry classes, especially outside of English and associated disciplines, appear to make poetry subservient and secondary in relation to the prose content of the course. The poet under consideration becomes a kind of involuntary servant to one or more prose authors, forced to "speak only when spoken to," and effectively prevented from challenging the ideas of the...