ABSTRACT
Schools” is to conduct an investigation into the problems of poetry teaching in the JSS classes in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State. The instrument used for the collection of data are made up of sets of questionnaires for the teachers in the selected secondary schools. The following hypotheses were formulated for the purpose of this study.
1. That poetry teachers encounter problems in their teaching assignment because majority of the students are not well exposed
2. Some of these problems of poetry teaching are caused by student’s linguistic incompetence.
3. That advanced poems selected for students to study is one of the major problems affecting the teaching of poetry.
4. That advanced poems encounter these problems because of their use of wrong methods.
5. That student does not have interest in poetry because they find the language of poetry too difficult.
To these numerous problems, the study addressed itself and proffered suggestions to arresting these problems, inclusive of more effective methods of teaching awakening and sustaining students’ interest in poetry and generating a keener awareness of the dignity and beauty of poetry.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One
Introduction
Statement of problem
Purpose of the study
Significance of the study
Hypothesis
Limitations of the study
Delimitation of the study
Chapter Two
Literature review
Chapter Three
Methodology
Population sample
Research instrument
Collection of data
Procedure
Oral interview
Analysis of data
Chapter Four
Data Analysis
Chapter Five
Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations
Summary
Conclusion
Recommendations
References
Questionnaires
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
The term “literature” is a term of art which is known as imaginative writing in the sense of fiction-writing which is not literally true. Literature has also been described as a creative work of art, involving an aesthetic reordering of experience in order to communicate it morefully or accurately. Literature is any imaginative work of art that is written, sung, spoken or charted. That has a specific message and is conveyed in beautiful and woven language with the aim of entertainment. In other words, literature is concerned with beauty, invention and the creative use of language artistically designed to give pleasure and enjoyment while passing across message
Literature is also seen as written works which are rendered as subject for study; they are drama, prose and poetry. In writing or study, we are going to concentrate on poetry. According to written words worth, ‘poetry is the imaginative expression of strong feeling, usually rhythmically the spontaneous over flow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility.
Poetry is a form of literature it is a record of the writers feelings about events which could be physical or otherwise. The subject of poetry could be supernatural (example J. P. Clark’s Abiku) or simply natural (example Lucys Poem). Poetry is a term that applies to many forms in which man expresses himself rhythmically. This is why poetry is a term of literary art that is easily distinguishable from prose by the predominance of rhythm. Rhythm is an integral part of nature and consequently existence, since everything in the world respond s to rhythm. Poetry is a special form of writing or composition involving in the use of imagination emotion and intellect in the communicate of experiments or in the interpretation of human consciousness and existence with unique structure and technical finesse.
Poetry is life because it deals with realities it has to do with man’s imagination feelings, his impression on and around him and the relationship between the world and himself it is the most personal in all aspects of literature.
Poetry in more completed in the use of language than that of the prose because it is usually short and very direct to the point.