Book about the GAA

28. English Poetry: General Review

27. Palestinian Poetry:

Lecture 27 is the last official lecture. And I will post 28 as a review lecture that you also have to watch and study.

Elaborate on TWO features of Palestinian Poetry, one from Linah Al-Sharif's poem and one from Susan Abulhawa's. Give textual evidence.

Also (optional): for your last social media posts, go tweet to Linah and Susan Abulhawa on Twitter and tell them you're studying their texts and maybe what line you like or what you like about their poem/poetry. Post the screenshots.

The book has several poems written by Islamic University-Gaza, English Department students. Go through them and post an extract you like.

Google luck...

Poetry

English Poetry Lecture 25: “a leaf falls” e e Cummings

Blackout Poetry

This is a short lecture that is also different and intriguing.

Watch this short lecture, and create blackout poetry from your poetry textbook. Google blackout poetry for Examples.

I will give a bonus to the most creative/meaningful ones.

Do NOT plagiarise the ones already posted in the video.

You can post up to three blackout poems.

Do not write more than 3 consecutive words.

Don't write less than 6 words or more than 17.

Briefly, discuss, with examples, three modernist features in T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"

English Poetry Lecture 23: "FUTILITY" by Wilfred Owen

Sometimes poetry celebrates war. Sometimes poetry condemns war. Why?

How do you as a Palestinian react to this poem, putting in mind it was England that gave Palestine on a silver platter to the racist Zionist movement?

How does the poet romanticise war?

How do you as a Palestinian react to this poem, putting in mind it was England that gave Palestine on a silver platter to the racist Zionist movement?

Review

Answer briefly and give examples Poetry offers stability in a time of rapid changes. Poetry has the potential to interpret life, console us, and sustain us. The poem's languages support its theme/s. How? The poem's literary devices help make its ideas/themes obvious. How?