‘I wonder if the spirit of the water has anything / to say.’ : Water imagery in Carol Ann Duffy’s Poetry: A Pedagogical Consideration

Description

This essay presents an ecocritical reading of water imagery in selected poems by Carol AnnDuffy, with focus on Duffy’s personified water-voices, how water illuminates history, andDuffy’s metaphor of language as water. After a consideration of the problematics of teachingpoetry in the EFL classroom, the essay concludes that Duffy’s poetry holds potential forstudents to develop environmental literacy, both in content and in form.

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Tags

poetry

EFL-classroom

water imagery

Carol Ann Duffy

inquiry-based learning

Learning

Lärande

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-80236
Date	January 2019
Creators	De Wachter, Elena
Publisher	Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess