Trade Winds
Poetry in English from Different Cultures
Published on 1. July 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-582-02195-2 (ISBN)
Description
An anthology of poems which gives GCSE students the opportunity of reading, in English, poems from China, India, Pakistan, Africa and the Caribbean. The book contains background information on all the poets and coursework material and assignments are included for both independant and group work. The poems are grouped into individual cultures and provide an insight for the student into the poetry of other countries. A thematic contents list is provided and there are suggestions for schematic coursework. The book also includes a glossary of poetic terms to help students when discussing the poems.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
6 colour and 9 b&w line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
321 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-02195-2 (9780582021952)
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Content
Part 1 Chinese poetry: Chung Tzu The Book of Songs; The Sharp Shares, The book of Songs; The Joy of Fishes, Chuang Tzu; Two Kings and No-Form, Chuang Tzu; Truthful Words are not Beautiful, Lao Tzu; Taking Leave of a Friend, Li Po; The Ballad of Mulan, anonymous; The Painting of an Eagle, Tu Fu. Part 2 Indian poetry: What She Said, Okkur Macatti; The Long Night is Before me, Rabindranath Tagore; The Tiger and the Deer, Aurobindo Ghose; Village Song, Sarojini Naidu; Obituary, A.K.Ramanujan; Poverty poems - 2, Nissim Ezekiel; I Was That Woman, Debjani Chatterjee. Part 3 Pakistani poetry: Address to the Saki, Mohammed Iqbal; A Prison Nightfall, Faiz Ahmed Faiz; Dust Storm, Nazir Ahmed Shaikh; A Speculation, Shahid Hosain; Sacrifice, Taufiq Rafat; Gold Spot Glow, M.K.Hameed; In The Desert, Zulfikar Ghose. Part 4 African poetry: Love Story, traditional from the Amharic; The Magnificent Bull, traditional from the Dinka; In Praise of the Blacksmith, traditional from the Shona; Is it Surprising my Dear..., Leopald Sedar Senghor; Africa Poem, Agostino Neto; Refugee Mother and Child, Cinua Achebe. Part 5 Caribbean poetry: Jamaican Fisherman, Philip Sherlock; This is the dark time, my love, Martin Carter; Uncle Time, Dennis Scott; For my Mother, Lorna Goodison; Limbo, Edward Kamau Brathwaite; Earth is Brown, Shana Yardan; Love after Love, Derek Walcott.