Teaching and revising the poetry of Wilfred Owen

New launch

This week sees the arrival of a wealth of teaching resources to help teachers deliver well thought through lessons on the poetry of Wilfred Owen. One of the most well regarded poets of the twentieth century, Owen vividly recreated what it was like to serve on a combat frontline, through a variety of distinctive poetic techniques.

To help time-poor teachers, worksheets cover areas such as:

• How Owen employs the sonnet form
• His re-creation of specific voices
• Owen’s use of religious imagery
• The aural qualities of selected poems
• Guided explorations of Disabled and The Letter.

In addition, there are helpful revision and/or homework tasks for every poem covered in the Crossref-it.info text guide to Selected poems of Wilfred Owen. Each worksheet on a specific poem helps students investigate:

• Context
• Language and tone
• Structure and versification
• Imagery and symbolism
• Themes.

Written by highly qualified UK teachers and educationalists, you can find these and other resources at: http://www.crossref-it.info/textguide/Poetry-of-Wilfred-Owen/36/2706

Helping students understand the ramifications and impact of Owen’s verse has never been so pertinent in this year commemorating the onset of the First World War one hundred years ago.