Time for Poetry - a Workshop Approach for CXCNelson Thornes, 2014 - 128 pages This popular text helps students develop and practise the wide range of poetry criticism skills demanded by the CXC English syllabuses. There are three sections which provide a carefully planned learning programme. |
Contents
To the Teacher Horatio of ideal courage vain | 26 |
In all my wanderings round Earth has not anything to show | 32 |
The glories of our blood | 39 |
undertaking | 45 |
Mervyn Morris 24 In the Gentle Afternoon | 51 |
Canes by the Roadside Song of Myself extract | 80 |
The poems in Part 1 are listed under their first lines not by title See note | 86 |
Twas Ever Thus Isabella extract | 93 |
The Microbe Wilmot Sanowar | 105 |
Common terms and phrases
Achilles Africa alliteration Anancy answer antithesis Aunt Tilly beauty bird blood boys canes Claude McKay Compose three short-answer contrast convey D. H. LAWRENCE dark DAVID DIOP death Derek Walcott describe Discuss dream to change earth EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH EDWIN THUMBOO effect Explain expressed eyes face fisherman flowers four options Give go back go gentle happy hath heart HENRY TREECE hurt hyperbole idea images irony JOHN FIGUEROA kind land language last line laughing line 17 line 9 litotes living look metaphor mood multiple-choice questions never onomatopoeia person personification phrase poet employs poet's attitude poet's father poet's feelings poet's intention poetry questions of four rain Read each poem rhyme rhythm simile Small Tragedy song soul stanza sugar-kings sweet talking tell theme things think the poet thought three short-answer questions tone tree Ulli Beier verse voice W.H. AUDEN wheel wind words Write a paragraph