A METHODICAL APPROACH TO TEACHING POETRY

TITLE OF POEM/PROSE
WORK

FIRST LOVE by John Clare

ABOUT THE POET

(Origins, career as poet/ writer/
his/her style in writing-150-200
words. This is just to familiarise
the students to the poet/writer
though we do not need to use
biographical details in any IGCSE
responses)

GLOSSARY

bloomed:

THEMES IN THE POEM

or PROSE WORK

LOVE

MOOD OF THE POEM

(5-10 words that describe the

Pleasant

Hopeful

(meanings of all the difficult

words in the poem-contextual
meaning but not dictionary
meaning)

SETTING/ATMOSPHERE
IN THE POEM
(50 Words)

mood)

TONE OF THE POET OR

SPEAKER OR PERSONA
(5 words that describe the tone)

A METHODICAL APPROACH TO TEACHING POETRY

POETIC/WRITERS
TECHNIQUES
(used by the poet/need to explain
the effect of the literary device in
the poem in 40-50 words for each
one)

Metaphor:

ANALYSIS OR CRITICAL
APPRECIATION OF THE
POEM
(in your own words 800-1000
words)

Two questions

Example question 1: How does the poet vividly convey __________________________________?

(Possible questions for practice,

which can be asked on the
poem/prose work)

Example question 2: Explore how poet/writer ___________________________________________

Example question 3: What impressions ________________________________________________
Example question 4: How far do you __________________________________________________?

If every student can complete this for each of the poem she/he is studying, they will be confident of the topic. This helps as revision
notes as well before examinations.
The entire template given above should be completed in your (student) own words.
Should not copy from websites or blogs.
You can read material on websites to study the poem and do this task with your own analysis.
Plagiarism should be avoided.
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