Today's session considered the VALUE of Literature. Students were shown two brief extracts from texts that are available via the BBC I-Player and class discussion considered a series of quotes [from Bacon and PB Shelley to TS Eliot and Laurie Anderson] that attempt to define the purpose or function of a literary text. I thought the class discussion was excellent.
HOMEWORK: Watch the WHOLE of WE BELONG HERE. This links directly to the coursework as these contemporary poets provide some wonderful definitions of poetic value. The first FIVE minutes is rich with material that students could use as reference material within their coursework.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p048s2y6/we-belong-here#group=p0499vc7
The other text ' WE ARE POETS' is also superb...it lasts 80 minutes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p048s53p/we-are-poets#group=p0499vc7
Students need to read THE OLD FOOLS/AUBADE/THE MOWER by LARKIN and WIND/THE THOUGHT-FOX/ LOVESONG by HUGHES. We will be attempting to link the texts in the next session. Students might like to initially link the texts through metaphor and then progress from this to other aspects of how meaning is being shaped by the author.
Students will be expected to complete the first draft of their coursework before the end of this half-term....SO LOTS OF WORK TO DO FOLKS.....
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