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Poetry
Introduction to poetry.
This course introduces the students to rhyme, rhythm, meter, and stanzas.
We'll look at the dramatic monologue, lyrical poems, free verse and end with rap lyrics.
Students will be introduced to poetic devices such as figurative language, and rhetorical devices. Terms covered include: stanza, line, literal and figurative language, rhyme, rhythm, meter, metaphor, simile, personification, shape (actual layout of the poem, which is particularly important with free verse), semantic field, alliteration.
Students will also learn to read and write poetry.
We'll cover a range of themes, from love and loss to the more mundane everyday situations.
In this course, students will also learn to distinguish between the author and the text, in this case, the poet and the poetic voice.
Included poems and lyrics are:
Brian Bilston, 'You Took the Last Bus Home', 'O do not ask if I'm beach body ready', and 'Neither Rhyme nor Reason'.
Carol Ann Duffy, 'Valentine'
Brian Pattern, 'Song for Last Year's Wife'
John Cooper Clarke, 'i wanna be yours'
Elizabeth Jennings, 'One Flesh'
William Wordsworth, 'I wandered lonely as a cloud'
Emily Dickenson, 'Hope is a thing with feathers'
William Carlos Williams, 'This is Just to Say', and 'The Red Wheel-Barrow'
Philip Larkin, 'This Be the Verse'.
Tupac Shakur, 'The Rose that Grew from Concrete', and 'Lady Liberty Needs Glasses'
Eminem, 'Cleanin' Out My Closet'
We'll also watch the film '8 Mile'.
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