Reading and Analysing Poetry: A Companion to Senior English

Reading and Analysing Poetry: A Companion to Senior English introduces students to different approaches they can use to read, analayse, and interpret poems. The study in inclusive of a variety of classic and contemporary poems, and contains works by: William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Anne Askew, Claire Askew, Kate Tempest, Christina Rosetti, Walt Whitman, Banjo Paterson, and many others. By working through the activities in this books, students will learn how to engage personally, critically, and creatively with poems from a range of different historical periods, written in a variety of different poetic forms.

This student book is a highly valuable resources for students and teachers of senior English. It includes:

• Engaging classroom activities to develop skills in comprehension, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of texts
• Texts regarded as quality literature, including Australian texts
• Texts that represent a variety of cultural, social, and gender perspectives
• Access to the full text of literary works covered throughout the study