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This seminar will follow the journey of Hebrew poets from the turn of the 20th century through the 21st century to construct (and reconstruct) a poetic self. Emerging as part of a national secular awakening that revolted against traditional Judaism and soon saw itself as part of European modernism, Hebrew poetry set itself to pave the way for creating a collective self. Questions such as what the main struggles were and how this collectivity of the self was challenged when various perceptions of selfhood and poetics emerged will be central to our discussion. Through a close reading of poems in the Hebrew original, we will study both the changes in the poetic self in each poet and the larger trajectory of the poetic self and its development in modern and contemporary Hebrew poetry.