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Road Map Poetry Module

This document provides an inventory and road map for learning resources in a poetry module. It outlines five main learning resources: 1) reading and listening to Seamus Heaney's "Digging", 2) viewing a powerpoint, 3) reading sections of the course pack on poetic language and devices, 4) proceeding to more poem sets, and 5) completing an assignment by choosing from provided poem sets. It emphasizes focusing on poetic concepts like imagery, symbols, and rhetoric. The document encourages navigating the varied resources independently and guides students on poetic close reading.

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Road Map Poetry Module

This document provides an inventory and road map for learning resources in a poetry module. It outlines five main learning resources: 1) reading and listening to Seamus Heaney's "Digging", 2) viewing a powerpoint, 3) reading sections of the course pack on poetic language and devices, 4) proceeding to more poem sets, and 5) completing an assignment by choosing from provided poem sets. It emphasizes focusing on poetic concepts like imagery, symbols, and rhetoric. The document encourages navigating the varied resources independently and guides students on poetic close reading.

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ROAD MAP, POETRY MODULE

This is a rudimentary textual map of how to navigate around the learning


resources for the poetry module.

Frankly, I wish I could draw or do some animation but I can’t so you may
have to do this using a very textual material. Given this limitation, I still
hope you can navigate your way around the course.

You will need to consider these factors: First, your learning resources are
multiple and varied in terms of format (text, audio, and video). Second, you
are learning on your own terms and at your own pace. You will have to be
very savvy working around these resources. That is why open and distance
education is not for everyone; the ones who are more systematic both with
time management and study methods are the ones who get by and
eventually succeed.

Sometimes it takes maturity to handle this unique situation in an open and


distance education and learning (ODEL) environment. For instance, those
who are in fresh high school graduates and are now in UPOU may be at a
disadvantage if they went through regular schooling. However those who
were home–schooled may have more ways and means of surviving in UPOU
and will find learning a lot more enabling.

INVENTORY OF OUR LEARNING RESOURCES FOR POETRY

FIRST, read Seamus Heaney’s “Digging.” Listen to the Nobel Laureate read his
own work. And then listen to the podcast to appreciate how literary critics close
read poems. Pay attention to what they focus on, to what they see and tease
out from the literary text.

SECOND, check out the powerpoint presented in myportal.

THIRD, read the course pack for a general overview of poetry (pages 195-229).
Salient items that you should pay attention to, and the corresponding
pages:

Poetic language: What is poetic language? Why is the language of


poetry different from other forms of literature? I will lead you to a
concept called
defamiliarization. Nowhere is this mentioned in the course pack.
http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/terms/D/Defamiliariz.htm

To fully appreciate defamiliarization, I’d put it this way:


defamiliarization is the way literature unsettles our ordinary
perception of the world. How does literature make you see the rain
differently?

After this, internalise the difference between denotation and connotation.


A discussion board will be created to elaborate on this matter.

Throughout those pages 196-229, you will be encountering the


rhetorical devices that are deployed by poets to craft a poem. Pay
special attention to the following:

Image, symbol, metaphor, metonymy, irony, paradox

Find out how they were used in the poems given as examples in the
course pack, as well as in the set of poems in the course guide.

The glossary of poetic terms should complement your


understanding of these concepts, as well as other important
rhetorical devices used in literature.

FOURTH, proceed to the next set of poems.

FIFTH, do FMA 1- you will choose from the set of poems presented as readings. Deadline is
June 25.
Throughout the entire process, I hope to guide you and hold your hand in the process of close
reading. So I will be initiating discussions on our FB page.
Glossary of Poetic Terms: provided as PDF file in our course site.

For further reading, as an enrichment:


http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/article/245464
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arYWAowatLs
Poet Eavan Boland talks about her poetry. Watch this video and be
enlightened about the creative process as well as the poet’s craft and her
ties to the history of her country.

On the literary texts (to be taken up in this order)

Refer to the Course Guide for the literary texts and we will follow that list in sequential
order.

The literary pieces will also be posted on the course site, depending on the week
number that they will be taken up.

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