Suitable for teaching 14-16s. Simon Armitage reads his own poem ‘Harmonium’, and analyses the inspiration, themes and language he used in creating it.
Subscribe for more English Literature clips from BBC Teach every Friday: [ Ссылка ]
If you found this video helpful, give it a like.
Share it with someone.
Add the video to your own teaching playlists.
Create an account, subscribe to the channel and create playlists for different age groups, sets and syllabuses.
=====================
Simon Armitage reads his own poem ‘Harmonium’, and analyses the inspiration, themes and language he used in creating it. His reading of the poem is combined with visuals from his home town of Marsden, and the church where the poem is set. The themes of fathers and sons, mortality, and the passage of time are explored, along with an explanation and analysis of some key words and phrases. The elegiac tone of the poem is also considered.
This clip is from the BBC series Simon Armitage: Writing Poems. Over the course of six short films, Simon Armitage goes behind the scenes of some of his most famous poems. Each film in Simon Armitage: Writing Poems contains a reading of the text and a visualisation of the ideas it contains, along with context given by the poet on the inspiration, imagery, structure and use of language that have gone into creating it.
For more clips from Simon Armitage: Writing Poems: [ Ссылка ]
For our English Literature playlist: [ Ссылка ]
For Class Clips users, the original reference for the clip was p011lnbz.
=====================
Teaching English Literature?
KS3/4: This clip can be used to explore the relationship between father and son in the poem. Students can annotate the poem in relation to this theme. They could then choose three main images and three main techniques that have been used by Armitage to write about in more detail. These ideas are presented by students in pairs as, 'our top three most effective ways in which Armitage presents the relationship between father and son'.
This clip will be relevant for teaching English Literature. It will be relevant for teaching poetry analysis at KS3 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Level 3 in Scotland. At KS4/GCSE, this poem appears in the AQA pre-2015 poetry anthology. Other works by this poet appear in the Edexcel, OCR and WJEC pre-2015 poetry anthologies, and in the AQA,Edexcel and WJEC/Eduqas post-2015 anthologies. This clip could also be used for teaching general poetry analytics skills at KS4/GCSE/National 5.
=====================
For more clips from other subjects at the BBC Teach YouTube channel: [ Ссылка ]
More from BBC Learning Zone: [ Ссылка ]
More resources from BBC Bitesize: [ Ссылка ]
=====================
Subscribe to create your own customised playlists, and get notified about our latest clips. As we have them, new videos will be uploaded on the following days:
Mondays: Biology, Computer Science, Music, Religious Studies
Tuesdays: Drama and Performance, English Language, Maths, Physical Education
Wednesdays: Languages, Media Studies, Modern Studies and PSHE, Physics
Thursdays: Art and Design, Chemistry, Geography, History
Fridays: Business Studies, Design and Technology, English Literature
