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| author | Schafer, John C. |
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| contents | Interpretation Theory and Teaching Students How to Write about Poetry. Schafer, John C. English Instruction Higher Education Literary Criticism Literature Appreciation Poetry Secondary Education Teaching Methods Writing Skills An assignment for high school or college students that requires them to interpret what a poem may have communicated to the poet's contemporaries can be valuable in that it teaches them that there is more than one way to interpret a poem and that the rules of interpretation are neither universal nor unchanging. Such an approach to poetry interpretation repudiates the philosophy of the New Critics that states that a reader should ask "how" and not "what" a poem means and that it is wrong to limit a poem's meaning by identifying it completely with authorial intention. However, such an approach permits students to read poems in their biographical and historical context and to gain practice in stating a thesis clearly (their interpretation of the poet's original intention) and to defend that thesis with proper evidence. It also allows them to accomplish a literary critical paper and a library research paper in one assignment. (AEA) |
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| spellingShingle | Interpretation Theory and Teaching Students How to Write about Poetry. Schafer, John C. English Instruction Higher Education Literary Criticism Literature Appreciation Poetry Secondary Education Teaching Methods Writing Skills Interpretation Theory and Teaching Students How to Write about Poetry. Schafer, John C. English Instruction Higher Education Literary Criticism Literature Appreciation Poetry Secondary Education Teaching Methods Writing Skills An assignment for high school or college students that requires them to interpret what a poem may have communicated to the poet's contemporaries can be valuable in that it teaches them that there is more than one way to interpret a poem and that the rules of interpretation are neither universal nor unchanging. Such an approach to poetry interpretation repudiates the philosophy of the New Critics that states that a reader should ask "how" and not "what" a poem means and that it is wrong to limit a poem's meaning by identifying it completely with authorial intention. However, such an approach permits students to read poems in their biographical and historical context and to gain practice in stating a thesis clearly (their interpretation of the poet's original intention) and to defend that thesis with proper evidence. It also allows them to accomplish a literary critical paper and a library research paper in one assignment. (AEA) |
| title | Interpretation Theory and Teaching Students How to Write about Poetry. |
| topic | English Instruction Higher Education Literary Criticism Literature Appreciation Poetry Secondary Education Teaching Methods Writing Skills |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED181478 |