Patterns of Poetry podcasts

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Back in 2010 I did some short talks on features of poetry for pupils, and here they are again (there is a brief gap between each talk). They are in the two players below the list.

1: Introduction.
2: Titles. 'The Fish' by Elizabeth Bishop, and 'Out, Out' by Robert Frost.
3: Alliteration. 'The Windhover' by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
4: Personification. 'Shancoduff' by Patrick Kavanagh.
5: Symbols. ‘The Stare's Nest by my Window' by W.B. Yeats.
6. Onomatopoeia. 'A Constable Calls' and 'Sunlight' by Seamus Heaney.
7. Cliché. Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare, and 'Valentine' by Carol Ann Duffy.
8. Simile. 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath.
9. Rhyme. 'Mirror in February' by Thomas Kinsella.
10. Repetition. 'The Fish' by Elizabeth Bishop and 'Moonshine' by Richard Murphy.
11. The Sonnet. 'Epic' by Patrick Kavanagh.
12. Punctuation. 'I felt a Funeral in my Brain' by Emily Dickinson and 'Strawberries' by Edwin Morgan.
13. Foreshadowing. 'To Autumn' by John Keats.
14. Metaphor. 'The Forge' by Seamus Heaney.
15. Hyperbole. 'A Christmas Childhood' by Patrick Kavanagh.