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Good Poems by Irish Poets for TEFL Students

  • 12-07-2012 7:34pm
    #1
    Avery
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭


    Hiya

    I wonder would anyone have recommendations for good classic poems by Irish poets for use in a TEFL class. I have quite a high-level class for a few weeks and they seem interested in poetry/literature and drama.

    I showed them "Mid-Term Break" and "To a Child dancing in the wind"

    Any other suggestions for quite straight-forward poems like this?

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    Rapunzels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Rapunzels


    Avery wrote: »
    Hiya

    I wonder would anyone have recommendations for good classic poems by Irish poets for use in a TEFL class. I have quite a high-level class for a few weeks and they seem interested in poetry/literature and drama.

    I showed them "Mid-Term Break" and "To a Child dancing in the wind"

    Any other suggestions for quite straight-forward poems like this?

    Thanks!


    Junior Cert favourites:Heaney- Digging, The Early Purges, Yeats - He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven... You could play The Waterboys album 'An Appointment With Mr Yeats', it has Easter 1916 and The Lake Isle of Innisfree.

    Also
    Eavan Boland- Child of Our Time

    Emmmmm loads more obviously, these are off the top of my head :-)


  • #3
    allprops
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭allprops


    There are a great series of anthologies called Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human edited by Neil Astley that carry a lot of contemporary British and Irish poetry. Well worth investing in.


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