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Poetry: Bruce Dawe's Prescribed Poems from Sometimes Gladness

Bruce Dawe, Sometimes Gladness
Prescribed text · Section II — Prescribed texts: poetry

What this note covers

  1. Treat a poetry selection as a connected prescribed text
  2. Persona and dramatic monologue
  3. Irony and satire
  4. Everyday and suburban experience
  5. Make form and structure do analytical work
  6. Build a poetry response with selection, precision and development

6 sections · 10 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes

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