WORKSHOP - resources and ideas for teachers
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Sharing What You Admire
KS3 Creative writing
GCSE Help | The SONNET | WAR POEMS
A Level Help
Resources arranged by:
POETS
POEMS
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Poetry generators Interiors, exteriors:- MacNiece, Frost, Finlay
William Collins - Ode to Evening
Another take on Animal Poems
Loss Robert Graves R S Thomas Elizabeth Jennings Seduced by words: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Homecoming Rain - a theme
Never Mind the Meaning, Feel the Words!
Gillian Clarke - My Box
George Barker and Coventry Patmore
Robert Frost Beginnings Valentines Poems from Unexpected Places
Bullying - students' poems
Highwaymen & other robbers
Using Song Lyrics
Techniques
Sharing What You Admire
Dylan Thomas
Edward Thomas
E E Cummings
John Keats
KS3 Creative writing
Loss Poetry in the Everyday
Valentines
Cats
Poems from Unexpected Places
Angles
Tangles
Concrete Poetry
GCSE Help
Themes
Revising themes
Getting back to the text
The Man He Killed
Making Comparisons 1
Making Comparisons 2
Active Approaches
'Before You Were Mine'
Blackberry-picking
'Catrin'
Cold Knap lake
'Cousin Kate'
'Follower'
'Homecoming'
Inversnaid London
Love after Love
'My Last Duchess'
'My parents kept me from children who were rough'
'On My First Sonne'
Presents from my Aunt
'The Affliction of Margaret'
The Eagle
'The Song of the Old Mother'
Ulysses
The SONNET
What is a Sonnet?
Clare: Summer Sonnet
Ozymandias
'Shall I Compare Thee...?' Upon Westminster Bridge
'Time Does Not Bring Relief...'
WAR POEMS
Dulce et Decorum est
The Sentry and Soldier War Poetry: Patriotic vs Realistic
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A level students are expected to read widely so you will find other sections of the Workshop useful too. Take a look at Keats, Cummings and Thomas, for example - and feel free to mail me at poet@teachit.co.uk if there are particular poems for which you would like suggestions. |
A Level Help
Interiors,
exteriors:- MacNiece, Frost, Finlay William Collins Christina Rossetti The North Ship - Larkin Thomas Hardy
More Thomas Hardy
Auden: As I Walked Out One Evening Auden: Miss Gee and Oh What is that Sound?
Frost, Robert Herrick: Delight in Disorder
Pugh and Duffy
A little Blake
John Donne: 'The Broken Heart'
Lawrence's Piano
Shelley - An Exhortation
Shelley - Mutability
Tennyson - 'Come into the Garden, Maud'
Tennyson - 'Merlin and Vivien'
Tennyson - poems from 'In Memoriam'
The Miller's Tale
The Passionate Shepherd
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
'The World's Wife' | 
