Sadler, R. K.

Enjoying poetry / Sadler, Hayllar, Powell. - South Melbourne : Macmillan, 1981. - xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes indexes.

Includes indexes.

1. Our land -- 2. Similes and metaphors -- 3. People -- 4 Sound-words -- 5. Animals and others -- 6. Shaped poems -- 7. The sea -- 8. Rhyme and limerick -- 9. City life -- 10. Writing your first poems -- 11. A Humorous look at ourselves -- 12. Rhythm -- 13. Strange happenings -- 14. Alliteration -- 15. Poems to compare -- 16. Personification -- 17. Feelings -- 18. Some grave poems -- 19. Birds of feather -- 20. Ogden Nash -- 21. War -- 22. Unhappy little poems -- 23. To the stars -- 24. Machines.

An appreciation of poetry grows out of understanding. Enjoying Poetry encourages students to examine poems critically and thoughtfully, to see what the poet is driving at, and to consider how well he or she is saying it.

Primary students.

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