COD 2007 - S263

Reading Keats's Poetry for IGCSE Literature 2008/9/10

IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum; lovers of poetry.

3 sessions, start: 29-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2007
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Paula D'Alessandro
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 90.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 29 June 2007 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 13 July 2007 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 20 July 2007 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Paula D'Alessandro

She is a tenured English Literature lecturer at I.E.S. Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramon Fernandez" and "Licenciada en Inglés" from Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She has been teaching Language and Literature at secondary school level for over twenty years. At present, she is a Language and Literature coordinator at Santa María school in Pilar, as well as an IGCSE and AS levels Language and Literature teacher at Polimodal level in the same school.
IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum; lovers of poetry.
- To provide IGCSE literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of literary texts. - To provide them with strategies to facilitate students' access to those texts. - To raise awareness of how language can be used for effect. - To bring to light the links between literature and other branches of art. - To explore the Romantic attitude to nature, feelings, love and beauty and how it is reflected in Keats's poetry. - To enhance critical thinking in both teachers and students.
Background: The Romantic Movement: historical context. The development of "sensibility". Main tenets of Romanticism: attitudes to nature and natural religion, scenery, spontaneity, individual genius, medievalism, the child and the "noble savage". The Preface to Lyrical Ballads as Romantic manifesto. Imagination and originality. Metaphors for the process of composition. Definition of "ode". Keats's attitude towards the form. The Spring Odes of 1819: context of production; the links between the odes. Keats's Poems: Analysis and discussion of "Endymion: A Poetic Romance, Book 1" (lines 1-33); "The Eve of St. Agnes", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", "To Autumn", "Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art …", "Ode to Psyche", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode on Indolence". Structure, imagery, rhetorical devices, tone, atmosphere, effect. Paintings: Observation and analysis of paintings related to Keats's poems: "Diana and Endymion" (Crane), "Endymion baigné par la lune" (Girodet), Selene und Endymion (Sebastiano Ricci), "Endymion and Selene" (Victor Florence Pollet), "The Eve of St Agnes" (William Holman Hunt) "The Eve of St Agnes" (Millais, John) "La Belle Dame Sans Merci: (John William Waterhouse)", "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (Henry Maynell Rheam), "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (Frank Cadogan Cowper), "Ode to Psyche" (John William Waterhouse), "Ode to a Nightingale" (Myles Birket Foster), Drawing of The Sosibios Vase (John Keats), "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (Phillips).
Presentation of the texts covering both a historical and a literary background, as well as literary analysis and pedagogical considerations through debates, pair work and group work activities. Observation and analysis of paintings.
- Arias Martín and Hadis Martín (ed) (2000) Borges Profesor. Buenos Aires: Emecé. - Ford, Boris (ed.) (1954) The Pelican Guide to English Literature: Volume 5: From Blake to Byron – Chapter 1: "The Social Setting", Chapter 10: "John Keats". Middlesex: Penguin Books. - Hough, Gram. (1964) The Romantic Poets. London: Arrow Books. - Pirie, David (ed) (1994) The Penguin History of Literature Vol. 5: The Romantic Period – Chapter 11: "Keats". Middlesex: Penguin Books. - Stone, Brian (1992) The Poetry of Keats. Middlesex: Penguin Books. - Stumpf John and Stott Jon (1970) An Outline of 19th Century Literature. Canada: Forum House.
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