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Activity 8 First impressions of poetry
Allow about 20 minutes
In order to complete the tasks in the questions below, you will need to
make notes, so this is an early opportunity to practise your note-taking
techniques. Note taking involves writing in sequence the points you want
to remember. You can do this by writing sentences, phrases, lists of
words, bullet points and so on. This is called linear note taking, and as
with all note taking the aim is to record the most important points. There
are two key aims to making these kinds of notes: they should be brief?
and they should be clear.
1? How do you feel about beginning to study poetry? What is your
experience of poetry so far? Write down a few words that describe
your feelings at this stage.
2? Do you have a favourite poem or song lyric that you can remember?
Or is there a short piece, such as an advertising jingle, that sticks in
your mind? Why do you like (or dislike) you’re chosen text? Why do
you think your chosen text is memorable?
Comment
Different people will obviously feel differently about question 1. You might
have written words like ‘excited’. Or perhaps you used words like
‘worried’; many students feel that poetry is the most difficult type of
creative writing to understand, so don’t be concerned if this is your initial
response. In the process of working through the material in this chapter,
such anxieties will be addressed and hopefully relieved. It’s good to
make a record of your feelings at this stage as this will give you
something to refer back to once you have begun to engage with the
material that follows.
Here are the answers that one student gave in response to question 2.
I remember the line, ‘Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop
to drink’ – though I don’t know where these words come from.
I like this line. It makes me think of being on a boat, in the
middle of the sea.
It is harder to...
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