Poetics of Teaching Poetry: Framework and Analysis Model Development in Literature Education

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to ensure that poetry teaching is anchored on pursuing higher-level thinking. The critical reading of the text, commencing with the poem's rudimentary elements such as the senses, images, sound, and diction. This work offers a framework by which poetry teaching can be done in the literature classroom, which is developed using qualitative research design. The data is collected through semi-structured interviews and open-ended questions. This results in the developed framework, which is composed of three underlying themes to guide teachers in poetry teaching, to wit, on poetry elements, senses and images, sound, and diction in poetry analysis. The poetry assessment emphasizes a suggested holistic approach for teachers. The RPIE model is the center of the analysis, where the text is situated between the poet and the reader, using the poem Spouse by Filipino poet Luiz G. Data as a frame. The process is the assessments employed, capturing lateral viewpoints of the poetics of teaching poetry. The paper posits that appreciating poetry while embarking on the rising level of critical thinking could well serve literature teaching implicating. A systematic approach to deriving meanings out of the metaphorical dialogism of the poetry text.