A Pedagogy Of Poetry Through The Poems Of W.b. Yeats

Synopsis

The Poems Of W.b. Yeats Are Used To Exemplify The Key Principles For Teaching Poetry To School Students Aged 14 Up To Graduate Level. Teachers Can Apply This Synthesis Of Literary Criticism And Analysis To Their Own Teaching Of Poems Of All Levels Of Complexity. Introduction: What Is A Pedagogy Of Poetry? -- Presenting Poems: 'the Lake Isle Of Innisfree' -- Poems As Songs: 'the Song Of Wandering Aengus' -- Poetry Of Place And Nature: 'the Wild Swans At Coole' -- Finding A Centre: 'the Second Coming' -- Making Parallels: 'sailing To Byzantium And Getting There -- Head And Heart: 'no Second Troy' And 'a Praeyr For My Daughter -- Poems Of A Moment:'easter, 1916 -- Complex Poems: 'nineteen Hundred And Nineteen' And 'meditations In Time Of Civil War' -- Poems In Sequence: Teaching An Anthology -- References . Index. John Gordon. A Trentham Book. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 131-133) And Index.