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- “They Flee from Me” by Sir Thomas Wyatt. What can attitude tell us? To help students find out, begin by asking who owns the action of each stanza in this poem.
- “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake (1789) What can rhyme tell us? At the end of the 18th century, Blake wrote two scathing poems that denounce the abominable practice of exploiting very young children as chimney sweepers.
- “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake (1794) What can point of view tell us? Five years later, Blake wrote a second poem about child chimney sweepers that appeared in Songs of Experience.This much shorter poem begins with the same rhyme scheme as the earlier poem.
- “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. What can syntax tell us? Carroll’s Alice says of “Jabberwocky”: “Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!”
Beyond Booked Up: Introducing Performance Poetry . 20 recommended poems for performance . These poems are a mix of classic and contemporary, but all of them are well suited to performance because of their regular rhythms , imagery, and humour. Maya Angelou, ‘Phenomenal Woman’: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/phenomenal -woman/
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