Intensive Reading: Poetry - Human Characters

Syllabus tag: Kenya CBC | Grade 7 English | Theme 8.0 Road Safety | Sub-Strand 8.4.1 Reading: Intensive Reading - Poetry: Human Characters (2 Lessons)

Lesson objectives

By the end of this topic, you will be able to:

• Identify human characters in a set of poems
• Use adjectives to describe the traits of human characters in poems
• Appreciate the importance of human characters in poetry

Summary

Character analysis, covered so far for prose narratives (Themes 1.4, 4.4, 7.4), applies to poetry too. This topic covers identifying human characters specifically within poems, and the vocabulary -- adjectives -- needed to describe their traits precisely, since a poem often reveals character through very few words.