Present your findings in an oral or aural-visual format. Choose the poetry of one culture and use it as a model to write a poem of your own. Explore the relationship between form and purpose. Choose one of these forms and write a poem of your own. Present the poem in a context which explains the purpose for which it was written.
Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life.
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. Poetry is a precision instrument for recording man's reaction to life. English - A Curriculum Profile for Australian Schools, Curriculum Corporation, Victoria, 1994. Thinker's Keys, Tony Ryan, Logan West School Support Centre, Queensland, 1991. The Co-operative Think Tank 11, James Bellanca,Hawker Brownlow Ed., 1992.