End of Course Summary
Well done! You have now completed this taster course – An Introduction to Poetry. We hope you have enjoyed it and found it stimulating and informative. In this taster you have:
- Read a selection of poems and extracts from poems, ranging from the 19th century to the present day
- thought about poetic techniques such as rhyme, alliteration and repetition, and their effects upon readers
- learnt how poets use imagery – particularly similes and metaphors- to create images and sense impressions
- Analysed two poems, identifying techniques and exploring meaning
The poems you read in this taster are:
Twelve Songs by W H Auden
Daffodils by Williams Wordsworth
Don't sit by my grave and weep - anon
Twelve Songs by W H Auden
Daffodils by Williams Wordsworth
Don't sit by my grave and weep - anon
Television by Roald Dahl
Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Bloody Men by Wendy Cope
The Donkey by G.K. Chesterton
Leisure by William Henry Davies
Sea Fever by John Masefield.
Pretty Baa Lamb by Craig Raine’s
Toad by Norman Maccaig
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
October Salmon by Ted Hughes,
Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney
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