Despite the considerable, growing interest in online education, most studies have focused only on the students’ perspective. Merely a handful of studies have attempted to address the teachers’ perspectives and little has been published on the online teaching experience itself.
Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for?