Poetic Innovation and Form · Summer Term
Modernism and the Breaking of Form
Investigating how 20th-century poets abandoned traditional meter and rhyme to reflect a fragmented world.
Key Questions
- 1How does the use of free verse mirror the psychological state of the modern subject?
- 2What is the significance of intertextuality and allusion in high modernist poetry?
- 3How do poets use white space on the page to influence the pacing and silence of a reading?
National Curriculum Attainment Targets
A-Level: English Literature - PoetryA-Level: English Literature - Literary Movements
Year: Year 13
Subject: English
Unit: Poetic Innovation and Form
Period: Summer Term
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