ARTICLE: Personification and War Poetry

[Ryan Goble]

Personification and War Poetry

Poet, novelist, and T&W teaching artist Bushra Rehman takes a poetry lesson above and beyond a simple introduction to literary devices in this lesson plan based on Dunya Mikhail's "The War Works Hard."  The class analyzes both the mechanics of the poem and how the author uses them to strengthen her messages, giving students a prime example of a personification poem before they begin writing their own. Rehman's lesson uses beautiful literature not only to inspire more literature, but also to offer her students a marginalized perspective and get them thinking critically and deeply about their surroundings. 

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