Write About Poetry

How do we read poetry, compare poems, or generate observations into a thoughtful response? Write About Poetry is an invaluable reference book and skills-guide for students of poetry, featuring model essays, a glossary of technical terms, and additional practice for student engagement.

Autorentext

Steven Jackson is an English teacher at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, and is currently Head of Key Stage Three for English. He has also organised several English A-level enrichment programmes, including teaching 'The Forms of Poetry' and 'Scenes from Shakespeare' for English Oxbridge preparation. He has been published in The English Review, and as a poet and prize winner at the Brian Dempsey Memorial Competition, the Ver Prize, and Marsden the Poetry Village Competition.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Who Is Involved?

Chapter 2 - What Is the Situation?

Chapter 3 - What Is the Central Theme?

Chapter 4 - Practical Criticism and the 5-Part Essay

Chapter 5 - Three Essays

Chapter 6 - Answering an Essay Question

Chapter 7 - Comparing Poems

Chapter 8 - Exploring a Group of Poems

Afterword

Biographies of Featured Poets

Glossary of Key Terms

Index