Reading Poetry: Imagery, Form and Meaning

Categories: English, Key Stage 3
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About Course

A Key Stage 3 English course on how to read and write about poems. Using two classic public-domain poems – William Blake’s “The Tyger” and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” – it covers imagery, sound, rhythm and rhyme, form and structure, and how to build a clear, analytical paragraph.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Identify and explain imagery such as metaphor, personification and symbolism Hear how sound, rhythm and rhyme create effects Explain how form and structure, including the sonnet, shape meaning Write analytical paragraphs about poems with embedded quotations

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • How to read a poem
  • Imagery and language
  • Sound, rhythm, form and structure
  • Writing about a poem

For grown-ups
Sources and further reading for parents, carers and teachers.

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