Describe the effect and how the poet achieves this. Write your own poem through which you aim to create strong emotions in your audience. Evaluate and rewrite it if necessary. Take a poem full of imagery and sound and create a musical accompaniment for it. This topic will lay the foundations for the students to become the poets of the future.
Activities Discuss the possible effects of future technologies on poetry.
Analyse how changes in social structures will change the role of poetry 1000 years from now. Present it in an inventive way, e.g., a new language, new form, new structure. Write a two-way dialogue between you as a poet today and your descendant in the year 3000. These activities can be included in each core topic or can be used to compare poets and poems across all core topics. Activities Select a poet whose poem you like.