Welcome to the Year 12 Core unit: Poetry of Social Comment
 
Teaching Programme and Work Requirements
Biographical notes on the poets
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THEME

1. WAR

2. NATURE UNDER THREAT

3. POLITICAL OPPRESSION

4. CONSUMER-ISM

5. CONFORMITY QUESTIONED

6. LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS

7. THE DARKER SIDE

Key poem

Anthem for Doomed Youth

The Improvers

Easter 1916
Summary of it
More history
The World is Too Much with us
William Wordsworth

Mending Wall

Essay on it

Colours

Telephone Conversation

reading 1

Strange Meeting

The Engine Drain

Freedom to breathe

Mercedes Benz

The Road Not Taken

Parting, 1939

In The Beginning

reading 2

Dulce et Decorum est

Search and Destroy

Speak

Mr Jones Takes Over

The Unknown Citizen

The Passionate Shepherd

Ballad of the Landlord

reading 3

The Rear-Guard

The Destroyers

All there is to Know . .

A Consumer's Report

Anyone lived ..

The Two of Us

Leaflets

reading 4

An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

A critique

Package for the Distant Future

Epitaph on a Tyrant

To a Trainee Accountant

The Silkworms

Woman to Man
 
Judith Wright

Out, Out -

reading 5

A Square Dance

Big Tree at Wayatinah

Ozymandias

Superman

To a Trainee Accountant

Yevtushenko

Hypocrite

reading 6

The Soldier
Men in Green

To the Anti-Dam Protesters

The Dictators

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Harwood:

In The Park

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reading 7

Patriotism,
Housman bugle

We are going

The Other Ozymandias

Michael Dugan

Robert Frost

Meditation on a Bone

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reading 8

Rupert Brooke

Oodgeroo N.

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e.e.cummings

A Frosty Night

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Relevant links:
Langston Hughes lesson
Devices of poetry
Year 11 Poetry unit
British Poetry Archive

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