I have found it helpful to have a copy of the poem in front of us so we all can follow along with a reading. Sometimes I do the readings, and sometimes we listen to a reading. I usually at least listen to a reading or two and, if needed, read an analysis of the poem before we read the poem together. Sometimes I read some of the analysis to them, but mostly I just summarize it for them. Since I am compiling all of this information, I thought I’d share. Some of these poets are not part of the AO schedule and for the ones that are I do not necessarily follow the suggested poems on the AO website. For each poet below I have links to 12 poems with analysis and readings (some of the links are to or from the AO website)
On This Page
- Year 5: Rudyard Kipling
- Year 5: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Year 7: The Oxford Book of English Verse
- Year 8: John Donne
- Year 8: Shakespeare
Rudyard Kipling – Year 5
In Progress
Links below are to the AO posting of the poems when available and readings when I find one that reads it better than I can.
from The Elephant’s Child
The Thousandth Man read here
Seal Lullaby read here
The Power of the Dog read here
Glory of the Garden read here
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Year 5
I will be reading one poem per week from the book Poetry for Young People: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Edited by Frances Schoonmaker. Links below are to the AO posting of the poems when available and readings when I find one that reads it better than I can.
The Arrow and the Song read here
A Psalm of Life read here
Christmas Bells read here
The Rainy Day read here
The Wreck of the Hesperus read here
The Village Blacksmith read here
The Day is Done read here
The Children’s Hour read here
Oxford Book of English Verse – Year 7
When I realized I was going to need the paraphrases, but still wanted to see the originals, I created this document. It includes all poems listed for AO7 Lite. The original poem is side-by-side with the AO paraphrase. And when available, I have links to YouTube readings of the original poems. This is my YouTube list.
John Donne – Year 8
Sonnet X: Death be Not Proud
Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart
The Computation
Song
The Sun Rising
The Triple Fool
For Whom the Bell Tolls (in prose) or No Man is an Island (put into verse)
The Good-Morrow
The Bait
Woman’s Constancy
A Hymn to God the Father
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Shakespeare Sonnets – Year 8
I have chosen twelve sonnets and will be using the readings by Patrick Stewart. Here is a playlist of the following twelve that I’ve chosen to read this term
- Sonnet 18 and analysis
- Sonnet 29 and analysis
- Sonnet 53 and analysis
- Sonnet 54 and analysis
- Sonnet 57 and analysis
- Sonnet 73 and analysis
- Sonnet 87 and analysis
- Sonnet 102 and analysis
- Sonnet 104 and analysis
- Sonnet 109 and analysis
- Sonnet 116 and analysis
- Sonnet 129 and analysis
Ambling Together 