Tomorrow I will be using this video by James Geary to introduce my latest iteration of my study of teachers' metaphors describing their teaching of poetry writing.
It is really worth watching if you have not looked at it, especially his use of Elvis as both metaphorical purveyor and metaphor in his own right: why else do we call him 'The King'?
In my paper, below, I am going to argue that teachers demonstrate flexible thinking in their conceptualisations of poetry in the writing curriculum. They find fault with and see poetry as inimical to a context in which poetry is not valued and where writing seems geared towards achieving measurable goals.
However, they also see great potential in teaching poetry writing both for individual learners and for themselves as creative practitioners.
The metaphors they employ to describe the benefits of this practice indicate that their view of creativity is based on a realistic appraisal of creative endeavour as a whole, in other words that it is not always a smooth or linear process.
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