Intensive Reading: Poetry Structure
3.0 Hygiene · 3.4 Reading: Intensive Reading - Poetry
Syllabus tag: Kenya CBC | Grade 7 English | Theme 3.0 Hygiene | Sub-Strand 3.4.1 Reading: Intensive Reading - Poetry (2 Lessons)
Lesson objectives
By the end of this topic, you will be able to:
- Explain the structure of poems
- Analyse the structure of varied simple poems
- Read short poems addressing varied societal issues
- Appreciate how a poem's structure communicates its message
Summary
Theme 2 introduced what makes a poem a poem. This topic goes one level deeper: how a poem is actually built -- broken into stanzas, and stanzas broken into lines -- and why that structure is not just decoration but part of how the poem communicates. The reading focus is short poems on personal hygiene, HIV and AIDS, and COVID-19, read with the same care those subjects deserve.