The document discusses teaching poetry in the classroom. It provides perspectives from experts that poetry leads to well-rounded student development by engaging their emotions, imagination, intellect, and aesthetics. It recommends teaching poetry as a single unit, but dividing long poems to preserve rhythm and emotion. Suggestions are provided for enabling student appreciation and understanding of poems, including their thoughts, rhyme, rhythm, and style. Teachers should introduce relatable poetry, recite poems aloud, teach figurative language, and encourage student poetry writing. Poems should be analyzed slowly line by line to discover deeper meanings through language techniques like metaphor and rhythm.

1. Dr. Dinesh Phogat
Subject Specialist
SCERT, Haryana

2.  According to Prof. S. Subrahamanyam,
"Poetry leads an all round
development of the whole
personality of the pupils particularly
the emotional, imaginative,
intellectual aesthetic and intuitive
sides."

3.  According to Ryburn,
" A good poem is a complete whole.“
 Therefore poetry should be taught in one
unit, but in condition that the poem is too
long, it must be divided in units in such a
way, so that it may not loose its rhythm,
music and emotional effect

4.  To enable the students to appreciate the
poem.
 To enable them to understand the thought
and imagination contained in the poem.
 To appreciate the rhyme & rhythm and style
of the poem.
 To train the emotions, feelings and
imagination of the students.
 To develop their aesthetic sense.
 To create love for poetry- especially- English.
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5.  Introduce poetry with poems that your students
can relate to their lives or their life experiences
 Recite each poem aloud to students more than
once.
 Learn about the poet prior to reciting their
poetry.
 Spend time analyzing poetry to really understand
the authors purpose.
 Teach figurative language to help students better
understand the poem’s meaning.
 Get excited when you teach poetry.
 The students should be given a chance to write
their own poetry.--- yes its possible !!!
 Encourage the students to share their poetry.

6.  Reading poetry is like digging for treasure!
 The poet usually doesn't come right out and tell you things.
 The author wants YOU to figure it out
 Go slowly through the poem, reciting it line by line.
 recite the poem for meaning.
 recite it again for deeper meaning
 recite it again this time looking for things like figurative language
like rhyming patterns, repeated words, metaphors, similes, and
other words that stand out to you
 Does it have a rhythm?
 Try reciting it out loud to What feeling do you get from reciting
the poem?
 What is the message of the poem? If the words are too hard to
understand, take the time to look up the meaning of the words.
 The poem will make much more sense! Now re-recite the poem
looking for hidden meanings.
3 R’s in a poem--- RHYME, REPETITION, AND RHYTHM

7.  All round of Development, Emotional Imaginative,
intellectual and aesthetic.
 Enrichment: Poetry enriches the experiences d the
pupils.
 Facilitation: Poetry facilitates the natural aptitude
for poetry in pupils.
 Rhythm: Poetry enables students to learn rhythm
through the rhythm of poetry.
 Cathartic Poetry has cathartic value because helps in
expression and training of emotions.
 To quote Billows, "There seems to be a special value
in poetry en a foreign language in opening up the
fantasy and giving release to inhibited and
excessively introverted types."
 Pleasing Poetry always imparts enjoyment and
pleasure to students.

8.  Definition
 Prose: Prose is a form of literature that uses the language in its original and natural form.
 Poetry: Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to
evoke meaning.
 Rhyme and Rhythm
 Prose: Prose does not pay attention to rhyme and rhythm.
 Poetry: Poetry pays attention to rhyme and rhythm; they are the essential components in a poem.
 Words
 Prose: The writer usually has no word limit.
 Poetry: Poets use a limited number of words.
 Structure
 Prose: The ideas are written in sentences; sentences are grouped into paragraphs.
 Poetry: The ideas are written in lines; lines are grouped into stanzas.
 Language
 Prose: The language is more natural and grammatical.
 Poetry: The language is figurative and rhythmical.
 Understandability
 Prose: Prose can generally be understood by reading once.
 Poetry: More than one reading may be needed to understand the meaning of a poem.

9.  Thank You