INTRODUCTION
TO THE ANTHOLOGY
ABOUT THE EDITOR/COMPLIER. This poetry anthology is compiled and edited by the
Tanzania Institute of Education (TIE) which is a Governmental Organization under the
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. It’s the responsibility is to
ensure the provision of quality of education in Tanzania in pre-school,
primary, secondary and teacher training levels.
TITLE. The title
of this poetry anthology is ‘Selected Poems’. It is a simple and
direct title that reflects the truth that the ‘selected poems’ in this
anthology have been taken from various sources of literature in Africa and
beyond so as to serve the need of poetry experience and appreciation for
students and teachers.
BRIEF
SUMMARY OF THE ANTHOLOGY. The anthology has various poems that help and teach
the Secondary School students how to appreciate the different kinds of poems.
The poems in this collection touch almost every aspect of life like love,
nature, politics, traditions, modernity, colonialism, neo-colonialism, freedom,
poverty, and position of women to mention a few. This anthology is a collection
of Tanzanian, East African, African, and World poems that teach the students
the experiences about African continent and beyond.
STRUCTURE OF
THE ANTHOLOGY. The anthology has been divided into three main sections. First section
is called Introduction. In introduction, there is the aims of the anthology,
how to use the anthology, and an introduction to poetry reading and analysis in
general. Second section is about the poems of the anthology themselves. This
section has about 70 poems of different size, format, style, and content. The
last section is Notes. This section has dealt with the explanation of difficult
terms used in various poems in the anthology.
This anthology has about 68 poems of
different size, format, style, and content. However, in this eBook, SEVEN
common poems have been analysed.
To read all Notes, read Notes on “Selected Poems”
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