The aim of this session was to illustrate some of the key ideas being explored within the 'canon' section of the critical anthology. The session also aimed to provide students with an idea of the content that will be expected to produce when creating coursework. Students need to be aware of the different critical approaches to notions of literary value beyond the narrow boundaries of the traditional literary canon.
The poetry of SHELLEY was used to generate a discussion linked to the concerns that will be explored within the poetry coursework.
HOMEWORK: READ HUGHES and DHARKER as the work of these two poets will be the focus of next week's session. I may also refer to Eliot's PRUFROCK and if I have time I will discuss the work of LARKIN. Please read the texts as an informed and sophisticated A Level discussion is only possible if students have bothered to engage with the texts.
Below are some resources that students should digest as they will inform the content of the poetry coursework:
Simon Armitage on the purpose of poetry...'Poetry is a form of dissent':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvFcbedyQ0A
Imtiaz Dharker...'HONOUR KILLING':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M04_yMEoecE
Interview with Imtiaz Darker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpdeqEzAKJg
Anais Nin..'WHY I WRITE':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-dRf7Zxf8Q
George Orwell..'Why I Write':
http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw
Eliot reads Prufrock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO3QTU4PzY
Maxine Peake discusses The Mask of Anarchy on BBC West Local News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx6SHg1FDnw
The Peterloo Massacre...BBC TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ln4p4mWu0
Sleaford Mods interview on Channel Four News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4G_UYK0Rkk
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