CIE Poetry Anthology, Songs of Ourselves - Annotated Booklet with Activities

This bundle contains thoroughly detailed annotations of each of the poems contained within one of the key CIE poetry anthologies; this includes suggested observations about structure and how one might sub-divide the poems into different topics.

It also includes a student-friendly and ready-to-print anthology with good spacing for annotations and extra notes pages between each poem.

Note that each poem comes with a suggested ‘starter’ or discussion activity (e.g. some with links to videos or picture stimulus with suggested answers / ideas).

They are certainly best used as teacher resources to guide understanding of the poems and to give inspiration for different interpretations - as well as detailed analysis of key language and imagery - but it can also serve as a useful revision resource given directly to students at the end of the course.

NOTE: These are only suggested interpretations and are, of course, subjective (I am a teacher and, as such, very much human!).

THIS bundle includes Word Document version (if scrambled, ensure that margins are narrow!), PDF document and blank Word Version of Anthology.

The bundle includes all of the following poems:

‘The City Planners’ – Atwood, Margaret
‘The Planners’ – Cheng, Boey Kim
‘The Man with Night Sweats’ – Gunn, Thom
‘Night Sweat’ – Lowell, Robert
‘Rain’ – Edward, Thomas
‘The Spirit is too blunt an instrument’ – Stevenson, Anne
‘Long Distance II’ – Harrison, Tony
‘Funeral Blues’ – Auden, W.H.
‘He Never Expected Much’ – Hardy, Thomas
‘The Telephone Call’ – Adcock, Fleur
‘A Consumer’s Report’ – Porter, Peter
‘Request to a Year’ – Wright, Judith
‘On Finding a Crushed Fly in a Book’ – Turner, Charles Tennyson
‘Ozymandias’ – Shelley, Percy Bysshe
‘Away, Melancholy’ – Smith, Stevie