Lots of students find poetry difficult and confusing and just don’t know where to start.
But the secret to writing good poetry answers is simple: you can’t write well about poetry until you have been taught how to read it..
Most people just don’t read poetry in life. It’s an unfamiliar form to them. So I always teach my students that reading poetry is just like listening to music.
- Like listening to music, it’s about how it makes us feel
- Like a new song, it will grow on us the more we listen to it
- And like our favourite tracks, poetry can go deep into our memory and our hearts
Over my thirty years of teaching I have developed The Three-Reading Strategy to help students at GCSE and A Level write excellent poetry answers. See my next post for more…
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