Poetry

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Poetry 

17 May 2024

2V TTO

Today's learning aim

You can explain the difference between poetry and prose

You can label texts into text types based on nine different phrases as given

Language in Poetry

Poets choose their words carefully. 

They create alliteration, rhyme, assonance.

Let's read p. 128 together

Listen

Listen to the following poem.

'If' by Rudyard Kipling

The text is on the next slide/handout.

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What is the poem about?

This poem was written is 1910. In your opinion, is it still relevant today? Why?

What is your favourite verse and why?
Think about language and content.

What is a poem? p. 129

Read the text and then do the activity: poetry or prose?

In pairs: fill in the grid 

1. poem; 
2. newspaper headline; 
3. idiom; 
4. novel opening?

'Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun'

1. Poem
2. Newspaper headline
3. Idiom
4. Novel opening

'Blackout Britain'

1. Poem
2. Newspaper headline
3. Idiom
4. Novel opening

'The owl and the pussy-cat
went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat'

1. Poem
2. Newspaper headline
3. Idiom
4. Novel opening

'Let sleeping dogs lie'

1. Poem
2. Newspaper headline
3. Idiom
4. Novel opening

'And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand'

1. Poem
2. Newspaper headline
3. Idiom
4. Novel opening

'There's no
point crying
over spilt milk'

1. Poem
2. Newspaper headline
3. Idiom
4. Novel opening

'It was a bright cold day
in April, and the clocks
were striking thirteen.'

1. Poem
2. Newspaper headline
3. Idiom
4. Novel opening

'Elvis Presley's teeth
visit Malvern'

1. Poem
2. Newspaper headline
3. Idiom
4. Novel opening

'The past is a foreign country:
they do things differently there.'

1. Poem
2. Newspaper headline
3. Idiom
4. Novel opening