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Selected Poems-Slessor – Insight Text Guide

Insight Text Guides take students into the deeper layers of meaning in a range of popular novels, plays, films, short-story collections and nonfiction texts. They are designed to develop detailed knowledge, in-depth understanding and genuine insight into each text.

The guides are written by practising English teachers, professional writers, reviewers and academics who are experts in their fields. Each guide presents a clear, comprehensive and accessible analysis.
There are over 150 titles in the Insight Text Guides series and new titles are published every year.

EACH TITLE FEATURES:

  • An overview of the text for quick reference, including notes on the author’s life and work, a plot synopsis, a character map and brief character summaries
  • Discussion of the historical, cultural and social contexts relevant to the text
  • Close analysis of each chapter/scene/story/poem, with questions
  • Detailed analysis of characters, themes and ideas
  • Discussion of different responses to and interpretations of the text
  • Guidelines on successful essay writing
  • Essay topics, a sample analysis of a topic and a sample essay on the text.

In Insight’s Text Guide Kenneth Slessor’s Selected Poems the following poems are analysed in some detail:

  • ‘The Night-Ride’
  • ‘Winter Dawn’
  • ‘Last Trams’
  • ‘Music IV’, ‘Music V’, ‘Music IX’
  • ‘Country Towns’
  • ‘North Country’
  • ‘South Country’
  • ‘Stars’
  • ‘To Myself’
  • ‘Heine in Paris’
  • ‘Fixed Ideas’
  • ‘Crow Country’
  • ‘Glubbdubdrib’
  • ‘Gulliver’
  • ‘Waters’
  • ‘Burying Friends’
  • ‘Elegy in a Botanic Gardens’
  • ‘Beach Burial’
  • ‘Nuremberg’
  • ‘Five Visions of Captain Cook’
  • ‘Out of Time’
  • ‘Five Bells’

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