That's the biggest drawback to teaching poetry. I know part of it is addressing core curriculum ideas students need to learn, but can't they just respond/react to the poem first?
You don't have to downplay one method to uplift another. My poetry classes taught both. I learned to first just feel what the poem wanted me to feel, then react to it, then analyze it. All three are important elements of understanding poetry.
So well said! I wish in school we actually were taught more about poetry and poets and discussing our responses to it. Maybe if we all would have been poetry would have been a more habitual experience for many.
The kind of analysis they focus on in school is probably why I don’t read much poetry. It definitely takes the joy out of reading.
That's the biggest drawback to teaching poetry. I know part of it is addressing core curriculum ideas students need to learn, but can't they just respond/react to the poem first?
They should definitely make that part of the lesson.
Oh heck yeah!! Can you imagine if we taught kids about feelings, in school?? 😅
Taught feelings in school. They definitely did not do that when I was a kid.
You don't have to downplay one method to uplift another. My poetry classes taught both. I learned to first just feel what the poem wanted me to feel, then react to it, then analyze it. All three are important elements of understanding poetry.
So well said! I wish in school we actually were taught more about poetry and poets and discussing our responses to it. Maybe if we all would have been poetry would have been a more habitual experience for many.