History of Poetry L.O. To explore the historical conventions of poetry.

Create a presentation on the following poets, genres and movements of poetry. You could include examples, and information on: Key dates Any relevant history Famous poets & poems Common themes Common influences Structure of poems (Rhyme? Stanzas? Length?) Create a presentation on the following poets, genres and movements of poetry. You could include examples, and information on: Key dates Any relevant history Famous poets & poems Common themes Common influences Structure of poems (Rhyme? Stanzas? Length?)

Movements Classical era (Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid) BC Mediaeval era (Chaucer, Beowulf) AD Renaissance (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne) – 1600 Romantic (Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Coleridge) – 1800s Victorian (Barrett Browning, Hardy, Tennyson) – 1860s Modernism (T.S.Eliot, Pound) – 1920s War Poetry (Owen, Kipling, Sassoon, Thomas) – 1920s [Post-Modernism – 1940s/50s] Recent era – feminist (Duffy, Angelou, Atwood, Sarojini Naidu)

Other topics to investigate: Recent Poet Laureates – Duffy, Motion, Hughes Famous British poets – Heaney, Hughes, Lear, Yeats Traditional poets – Clare, Hardy, Lawrence, Famous American poets – Whitman, Poe, Dickinson, Angelou Common poetic forms – Sonnets, Villanelles, Dramatic monologues, Ballads, Free Verse

What have you discovered? Which poet/poetical movement do you think you like best? Which do you not like? What have you discovered? Which poet/poetical movement do you think you like best? Which do you not like? Extension 1: Print out and analyse an example poem. Language? Structure? Extension 2: Can you construct your own timeline regarding some of the history of poetry?

Timeline BC1500

A Brief History of Poetry Without looking at your notes, write as much as you can remember about the history of Western poetry – what movements were there? What famous poets? What famous forms? Ext: What key historical events prompted a new movement or poetic style? Why do you think this is?

Quick Quiz 1.Name a common poetic form used in the Elizabethan period. 2.Name a common WWI or WWII poet. 3.In which time period did Modernism appear? 4.What type of poetry are Duffy, Angelou, Atwood and Naidu best known for? 5.Name a well known American poet. 6.Does Geoffrey Chaucer belong to the Mediaeval or Classical era? 7.Which tends to be more negative and serious, Victorian or Romantic poetry?

Which war poem do you think expresses the strongest sense of emotion or injustice? Why? Here Dead We Lie Here dead we lie Because we did not choose To live and shame the land From which we sprung. Life, to be sure, Is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, And we were young. A E Housman A Son My son was killed while laughing at some jest. I would I knew What it was, and it might serve me in a time when jests are few. Rudyard Kipling Inscription for a War Linger not, stranger. Shed no tear. Go back to those who sent us here. We are the young they drafted out To wars their folly brought about. Go tell those old men, safe in bed, We took their orders and are dead. A D Hope PEELPEEL