Poetry Workbook for Years 11 & 12

Five Senses Skillbuilders no. 35

Poetry exercises for year 11 & 12 students, including sample answers.

The workbook contains units on:

• Juxtaposition, with Domesticity to Giraffes - Judith Beveridge
• Metaphor, with Island - Michael Dransfield
• Imagery, with Sinner - Neil Finn
• Personification/Sonnet, with Death be Not Proud - John Donne
• Personifcation, with Because I could not stop for Death - Emily Dickinson
• Persona, with Mirror - Sylvia Plath
• Imagery, with Hurt Hawkes - Robinson Jeffers
• Persona, with Hawk Roosting - Ted Hughes
• Irony, with To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell
• Allusion, with Journey of the Magi - TS Eliot