Module B: Critical study of texts
This module requires students to engage with and develop an informed personal understanding of their prescribed text. Through critical analysis and evaluation of its language, content and construction, students will develop an appreciation of the textual integrity of their prescribed text. They refine their own understanding and interpretations of the prescribed text and critically consider these in the light of the perspectives of others. Students explore how context influences their own and others’ responses to the text and how the text has been received and valued.
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TYPE OF TEXT: Poetry AUTHOR: TS Eliot COURSE: Advanced, Module B: Critical Study of Texts |
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DESCRIPTION
This module requires students to engage with and develop an informed personal understanding of their prescribed text. Through critical analysis and evaluation of its language, content and construction, students will develop an appreciation of the textual integrity of their prescribed text. They refine their own understanding and interpretations of the prescribed text and critically consider these in the light of the perspectives of others. Students explore how context influences their own and others’ responses to the text and how the text has been received and valued.
The following annotations are based on the criteria for selection of texts appropriate for study for the Higher School Certificate.
MERIT AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF STUDENTS
OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHALLENGING TEACHING AND LEARNING
This module requires students to engage with and develop an informed personal understanding of their prescribed text. Through critical analysis and evaluation of its language, content and construction, students will develop an appreciation of the textual integrity of their prescribed text. They refine their own understanding and interpretations of the prescribed text and critically consider these in the light of the perspectives of others. Students explore how context influences their own and others’ responses to the text and how the text has been received and valued.
The following annotations are based on the criteria for selection of texts appropriate for study for the Higher School Certificate.
MERIT AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
- Eliot was a key figure in the Modernist movement, early 20th-century English poets who broke away from the formal modes and traditions of earlier poetic styles and schools. He is often called ‘the voice of a generation’.
- Widely regarded as one of the most influential poets of the modern era, Eliot was also a publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
- The poems selected for study are: ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘Preludes’, ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’, ‘The Hollow Men’, ‘Journey of the Magi’.
NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF STUDENTS
- Eliot’s poetry deals with problems associated with modern life, including feelings and
- Students will be engaged by the ways in which the poems reflect aspects of post-war disillusionment, including the failure of religion and the disintegration of culture and psychological identity.
- The poetry often makes a direct second-person appeal to the reader, eliciting a stark recognition of shared aspects of ordinary human existence.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHALLENGING TEACHING AND LEARNING
- Eliot’s poetry affords rich opportunities to study
- Students will critically examine the subject matter and disjunctive formal elements and structures of Eliot’s poems.
- Students can explore Eliot’s adoption of collage as a poetic technique, showing the impact of Cubism and other modern art styles of the period on his work, as well as the influence of Imagism.