Post by ronprice on Jul 9, 2015 2:38:58 GMT -5
ARROWS OF DESIRE
Got a small chunk today….as I passed by
Television programs about poetry are few and far between. Beginning in 2004, Channel 4 in the UK presented a series of 50 modules, ranging in length from 3 to 8 minutes, and grouped together to form twelve 25-minute programs. Each program consisted of four different poems. These TV programs came to Australia in 2011 and 2012 and this morning I watched, by chance, the last five minutes of the last module.1
I am a retired teacher and I taught English literature off and on from 1967 to 2005. While I was a teacher in primary, secondary and post-secondary schools there was little television material of use in the classroom for the study of poetry. This morning I chanced upon a chunk that presented the Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer Jonathan Swift(1667-1745) with a focus on his poem Lines on the Death of Dr Swift. This series would have greatly enhanced the effectiveness of my teaching of poetry over the 32 years I was in the classroom as a teacher to say nothing of the 18 years I was in the classroom as a student. The half century from 1955 to 2005 were in many ways the beginning of educational TV.-Ron Price, Pioneering Over Five Epochs, 27/4/’12.
I often feel that after more
than half a century’s study
of poetry that I am just one
of the millions of beginners,
and in the evening of my life,
at the age of 68, I have put a
small dint, have scratched the
surface: information’s mountain
is getting bigger & bigger on its
way to an Everest of knowledge
that noone can ever grasp & this
is true of most fields, disciplines
of study that pleasantly occupy
me now in the evening of my life.
1 ABC1 TV, Arrows of Desire, 10:35- 11:00 a.m., 27 April 2012.
Ron Price
27 April 2012
Got a small chunk today….as I passed by
Television programs about poetry are few and far between. Beginning in 2004, Channel 4 in the UK presented a series of 50 modules, ranging in length from 3 to 8 minutes, and grouped together to form twelve 25-minute programs. Each program consisted of four different poems. These TV programs came to Australia in 2011 and 2012 and this morning I watched, by chance, the last five minutes of the last module.1
I am a retired teacher and I taught English literature off and on from 1967 to 2005. While I was a teacher in primary, secondary and post-secondary schools there was little television material of use in the classroom for the study of poetry. This morning I chanced upon a chunk that presented the Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer Jonathan Swift(1667-1745) with a focus on his poem Lines on the Death of Dr Swift. This series would have greatly enhanced the effectiveness of my teaching of poetry over the 32 years I was in the classroom as a teacher to say nothing of the 18 years I was in the classroom as a student. The half century from 1955 to 2005 were in many ways the beginning of educational TV.-Ron Price, Pioneering Over Five Epochs, 27/4/’12.
I often feel that after more
than half a century’s study
of poetry that I am just one
of the millions of beginners,
and in the evening of my life,
at the age of 68, I have put a
small dint, have scratched the
surface: information’s mountain
is getting bigger & bigger on its
way to an Everest of knowledge
that noone can ever grasp & this
is true of most fields, disciplines
of study that pleasantly occupy
me now in the evening of my life.
1 ABC1 TV, Arrows of Desire, 10:35- 11:00 a.m., 27 April 2012.
Ron Price
27 April 2012