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Introduction to Poetry | | |
 Introduction
Introduction
This section of the literature course is designed to provide an introduction to some of the key ideas
about poetry, ideas which some
people find difficult and which can make poetry difficult to read. To help us to explore, we'll use
a very short, fairly modern poem
which is only 26 words long in total but which can be analysed to reveal different layers of meaning.
As we move through the different
sections of studying the poem one key idea we'll return to again and again is the idea of choice. The
poet chooses a subject, chooses
the words to explore it, the images to convey meaning, how the poem is punctuated and laid out on the
page and provides a title. In
this unit we reverse the process, starting with the basic words in the correct order each section concentrates
on one set of choices,
allowing you to experiment with different choices before revealing the ones actually made by the poet.
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