Students discussed the poems printed within my 'little' anthology of poetic beauty. Students were encouraged to consider the notion of the canon and how metaphor is used to shape meaning. Reference was made to Larkin's The Mower, Wordsworth's Daffodils, Stevie Smith's Not Waving But Drowning, the work of Dorothy Parker, and Wind by Ted Hughes.
Students were encouraged to link William Wordsworth's Daffodils with Wind by Hughes. Class discussion explored how metaphor shapes meaning and how historical context could inform interpretation.
HOMEWORK: Those students who failed to provide A DECIDER need to create A Decider and hand this to me at the beginning of the next session. This can be an illustration, a collage, a painting etc. Students need to read my anthology and the articles in the official AQA anthology.
Next week we will be discussing the poems of Philip Larkin. Students need to read Bridge for the Living, The Building, Here and the poems in my anthology [Afternoons, Days, The Mower]. Feel free to read ANY of Larkin's work as this will allow us to have an INFORMED discussion in next week's lesson.
In today's lesson I encouraged students to read:
- The Love Song Of J.Alfred Prufrock by T.S.Eliot.
- The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde.
- Daddy and Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
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