scholarly journals Experimenting with the languaging approach in teaching poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 21, Running Issue (Running issue) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
S. Kähkölä ◽  
K. Rättyä
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Poetry

Refining Contrapuntal Pedagogy: Reflections on Teaching Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues” to First-Year Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Grogan
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
Teaching Poetry ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

This article reports on and discusses the experience of a contrapuntal approach to teaching poetry, explored during 2016 and 2017 in a series of introductory poetry lectures in the English 1 course at the University of Johannesburg. Drawing together two poems—Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues”—in a week of teaching in each year provided an opportunity for a comparison that encouraged students’ observations on poetic voice, racial identity, transhistorical and transcultural human experience, trauma and empathy. It also provided an opportunity to reflect on teaching practice within the context of decoloniality and to acknowledge the need for ongoing change and review in relation to it. In describing the contrapuntal teaching and study of these poems, and the different methods employed in the respective years of teaching them, I tentatively suggest that canonical Western and contemporary postcolonial poems may reflect on each other in unique and transformative ways. I further posit that poets and poems that engage students may open the way into initially “less relevant” yet ultimately rewarding poems, while remaining important objects of study in themselves.

EJ Workshop: Teaching Poetry

1975 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Betsy B. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Poetry

Teaching Poetry through Rock Music

1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Tony Hale
Keyword(s):  
Rock Music ◽  
Teaching Poetry

scholarly journals Introducing the Visual Art through Concrete Poetry in the EFL Classroom: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-153
Author(s):  
Chahra Beloufa
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Visual Poetry ◽  
Concrete Poetry ◽  
The Third ◽  
Teaching Poetry ◽  
The University ◽  
Visual Shape ◽  
Learning English

Teaching poetry offers the teacher of literature some basic and active ways to engage students in learning English because of poetry’s rich language which represents an opportunity for learners to explore meanings and be able to formulate creative responses. One must be aware of the fact that poetry includes various types which differ in forms, and each one of these may have a particular influence on students? learning literature; that is why one centralized the research area on concrete poetry or what is called visual poetry too. This study aims to teach students not only to read and listen to a poem but to develop the skill of creativity through rewriting and this ability would be provoked by the visual shape of the concrete poem. One is trying to bring fun in the EFL classroom and particularly during the literature lecture where students are probably bored by analyzing every line and stanza. So, all these aims were to be concrete via a test, observation and questionnaire. These scientific tools confirmed one’s hypotheses about how positive is concrete poetry for the group of the third-year English L.M.D. students at the University of Djilali Liabes, Sidi Bel Abbes

Basic Competencies for Teaching Poetry

1970 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 517
Author(s):  
Tory Westermark ◽  
Bryan N. S. Gooch
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Poetry ◽  
Basic Competencies
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