Zusammenfassung der Ressource
John Foulcher's Poetry
- The Learning Curve
- Character based
- An affectionate or forgiving look at the myriad of faces and voices in the school community
- Character/s Study
- Anna
- bright
- arrogant
- cruel
- An adolescent acting and learning as an adult
- In the poem, "Anna Flies Home", she describes that one must make the most of life.
- Helicopter view
- "But everything was cold" - a direct allusion to snow. An indirect
allusion to the realization that she can't have everything
- The ESL teacher
- An adult that acts and learns like an adolescent
- Juxtaposition to Anna
- Naïve
- Wants to reclaim an adolescence she has never had...whilst,
ironically, tearing away Stephan's adolescence
- In the poem, "The ESL Teacher Talks of
Senior Boys", she says, "they snuggle up
to every word I say." This implies that she
wants the boys to be snuggling up to her.
- Breaking boundaries
- An "imagist"
- His theme...is a skeptical faith, complemented by
the uneasiness of domesticity. It is the heroism of
the modern, isolated individual - man or woman.
- School's are communities, and communities are complex places. We have
to get along, and we have to forgive each other (Foulcher, 27th May, 2013)
- Each one of his characters has a different "rhythm" and voice.