Task: Explore the works of a poet who was writing in the past hundred years and read 6-8

of their poems. 1. Select a poet who interests you from the list below: AD Hope Allen Ginsberg Boris Pasternak Czeslaw Milosz Deborah Ager Douglas Stewart Elizabeth Jennings Isaac Rosenbert Judith Wright Kingsley Amis Lawrence Durrell Octavio Paz Randall Jarrell Robert Frost Robert Lowell Seamus Heaney Stephen Spender T S Eliot W B Yeats William Davies Adrienne Rich Anais Nin Bruce Dawe David Jones DJ Enright Dylan Thomas Ezra Pound Judith Rodriguez Kenneth Slessor L V Mack Maya Angelou Primo Levy Roald Dahl Robert Graves Rupert Brooke Siegfried Sassoon Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes Wilfred Owen Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Task Notes: Construct a brief biography (150200 words) for the poet you have selected. To what extent does s/he appear to have drawn on personal experience in the writing of

his/her poetry? Choose a poem you liked from your reading. What year was it written? What was going on in the country the poet lived in at that time? What was going on in the world at that time? In what ways may s/he have been influenced by the events of the age in which s/he lived? Consider the 6-8 poems you read. What general comments could you make about his/her: Subject matter Style What common themes can you identify among the poems you have studied? To what extent would you describe the poet as modern in his/her attitudes and writing? Select three of the poems you found most interesting. Write a detailed response to these poems using either Six Steps to Help Analyse a Poem, or the TP-CASTT method of analysis. (See the bottom of the page) Extension: Develop a collection of your own twentieth century poetry. Write about issues, emotions and relationships

which concern you.