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K.Nazeema. M.A, M.Ed, M.Phil

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K.NAZEEMA. M.A, M.ED, M.

PHIL
SYNOPSIS
1.POETRY MEANING2.POETRY DEFINITION
3.OBJECTIVES OF TEACHING POETRY
4.VALUE OF POETRY
5.TYPES OF POETRY
6.ELEMENTS OF POETRY
7.TEACHING POETRY
8.PROCESS OF TEACHING POETRY
9.CONCLUSION
10.RESOURCES
What is poetry?
It is a form of writing that uses not only words, but
Form
Imagery
Patterns of sound
Figurative language
to share strong feelings or a powerful message/
theme.
Poetic Form
A poems form is its shape or what it
looks like.
Poems are divided into lines.
Lines are usually grouped into stanzas.
Stanzas function like paragraphs in a
story.
Objectives of Teaching Poetry
i. To encourage the use of poetry in teaching English
ii. To introduce a variety of poetic structures and devices
iii. To give listening practice to the students
iv. To give speaking practice to the learners
v. To enable the students to recite the poem in proper way so that
they may enjoy its music and rhythm.
vi. To enable them to understand the beauty of thought.
vii. To enable them to improve their power of imagination
viii. To enable them to appreciate the poem by awakening in them
the aesthetic qualities of appreciation.
ix. To make them familiar with the back ground of the poem.
x. To develop love for English language.

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Value of
poetry
Appreciate Fun
Spoken
sounds expression
words and
patterns Creative
writing

Creativit
Integration
y Vocabulary

Confidence Variet
Imagination
y
Express
Phonic Language feeling and
skills skills opinions
Some Elements of Poetry
1. Harmonic Textures
2. A Sense of Form
3. Figures of Speech
4. Rhythm & Meter
5. Line Breaks
6. Stanza Breaks

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1.Harmonic Textures
Alliteration: dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon

Assonance: dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon

Consonance: bare ruined choirs

Rhyme: dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon


2. A Sense of Form
partly visual; its look on the page

partly auditory; patterns of sound

pre-existing patterns; like sonnets

free verse
3. Figures of Speech
Metaphor, Imagery, Simile:

Time is a river
Time hangs heavy
Time is like the breeze
4. Rhythm & Meter
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

Read the two lines aloud (Activity Three)


Can you find the rhythmic pattern?
5. Line Breaks
Poetry is written in lines
The poet can select line breaks by:
counting stresses
counting syllables
counting feet - iambic pentameter (e.g.5
iambic feet per line)
or by the poets own rules:
free verse
6. Stanza Breaks
Stanzas are visual groupings of lines.
The Poet can use stanzas of any length:
couplets
tercets
quatrains
quintets
sestets
Octaves
14 line poem can be 3 quatrains and a
couplet
or an octave and a sestet
Teaching Poetry
Use the five senses
Encourage careful observation of
concrete events and scenes
Encourage the use of figurative
language
Make each word count
Consider using an existing poetry
structure to create new work
The Process of Teaching the Poem can be in three Main
Stages.
1. Preparation
2. presentation
3. Discussion
1.PREPARATION:
a. Equipping the students for a quick grasp of the main out of
the poem.
b. Familiarizing (not through explanation) them with the most
important words and expressions.
c. Ensuring that the ideas involved in the poem are not beyond
his reach.
2. PRESENTATION
The teacher recites / reads out the poem with the proper pronunciation,
intonation and facial expression (a second reading/ recital can also be
done if necessary).
3. DISCUSSION-
Books Open: The teacher need not explain every word or
every line. She can ask simple questions to ensure whether
the pupils have understood the poem. Even if a few students
ask the meaning of words like catamarans, leaping wealth,
she can show pictures, or pose questions to the clan and elicit
the answer.

FURTHER READING:
When the whole poem has been presented and discussed this
way , it may be read over by the teacher again once or twice
(depending on the students need).
CONCLUSION:
a. As a concluding part of discussion you may initiate
the children.
b. To quote parallel incidents /recite poems in their mother
tongue with parallel themes.
c. b. To draw pictures or point some beautiful scenes that
appeal to their mind.
d. c. To enact the poem.
e. d. To pick out the rhyming wards.
Teaching Resources:
http://www.education.tas.gov.au/english/
formsof.htm
http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/resource.htm
http://www.poetryexpress.org
Education paper
Tnteu material

The Learning and Teaching of Poetry (Secondary 1-3) Curriculum


Development Institute (2002)

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