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This document is intended to provide a starting point for teachers in their thinking and planning in that it gives an introductory overview of how the text can be considered through the lens of tragedy. We haven’t covered every element of this genre. Instead we hope this guide will provide a springboard to help you plan, and to get you and your students thinking about the text in more detail.  \nThe Poetry Anthology: Tragedy – a series of snapshots of the genre  \nThe Poetry Anthology: Tragedy has been put together to exemplify ‘aspects’ of the genre. There is no attempt to claim that each individual poem is itself an example of a complete ‘tragedy’. However, as a collection, this anthology provides students with a range of aspects which together will give an understanding of the wider genre. In teaching this ‘text’, schools and colleges must realise that all the poems need to be taught because together they offer a multidimensional vision of tragedy. Students could be asked to write about one named poem, or refer to one or two others in their response, and must therefore study all poems. The question will target an ‘aspect’ and, therefore, students will need to select wisely to ensure they are making the best use of the‘text’. The key is to select relevant poems in terms of the question that is being asked. Although the anthology contains a number of pre-1900 poems, because it also contains post-1900 poems this ‘text’does not count as a pre-1900 text. Therefore for A level, it cannot be studied for examination if the drama choice is Death of a Salesman. However, schools and colleges might choose to study some of the poems as an introduction to Aspects of tragedy and in doing so it could also be good preparation for the poetry for the NEA, though schools and colleges are reminded that students cannot use any of the set poetry texts from the examined units in the NEA.  \nExtracts from The Prologue to the Monk’s Tale and The Monk’s Tale– Geoffrey Chaucer  \nThose who seek to define tragedy, frequently draw on this section of The  \nPrologue and Tale for a Middle Ages literary definition of the genre – or perhaps  \nmore appropriately Chaucer’s or the Monk’s. According to Chaucer (or his Monk), it is about men of ‘heigh degree’ and ‘in greet prosperitee’who fall into ‘myserye and endeth wrecchedly’. The Monk, at this point in The Canterbury Tales is engaged in merry banter with the host and promises to tell the story of the life of St Edward (likely to be Edward the Confessor) after he has told of some tragedies, of which he has a hundred in his cell. Interestingly the Monk then offers his definition of tragedy.  \nDespite the darkness of the content (men falling into misery, ending their lives wretchedly), the Monk’s tone is light-hearted, suggesting perhaps that tragedies should not be taken too seriously – at least not for the pilgrims on the journey. More interestingly still, the Monk highlights the literary form and nature of the genre by saying that usually tragedies are written in prose or verse. The layers of irony here are significant. The Monk, who is Chaucer’s fictional creation, is himself outlining what constitutes a tragic narrative. He frequently reminds his audiences that he is a story teller, one who might not always remember the correct historical order of the tragic stories which he is about to tell.  \nIn the extract from the tale, there are brief potted accounts of two heroes from high degree who were brought by Fortune to ‘hire adversitee’. In his introduction, the Monk offers a moral instruction to his audience: man should not ‘truste on blynd prosperitee’. He speaks generally and didactically of the power of Fortune and the harm she can bring. The purpose, therefore, in citing the stories of the tragic figures is to warn others of w","cbCaioFkY5wFHIFN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioFkY5wFHIFN","pdf",119579,"English","# The Poetry Anthology (Tragedy)\n## Tragedy as a genre through “aspects”\n## Chaucer: extracts from The Prologue to the Monk’s Tale and The Monk’s Tale\n## Paradise Lost: Milton’s portrayal of Satan","[{\"question\":\"What does the anthology mean by “aspects” of tragedy?\",\"answer\":\"It presents various parts of the genre rather than claiming each poem is a complete tragedy. Together, the poems build a multidimensional understanding of tragedy.\"},{\"question\":\"Why must students study all the poems in the anthology?\",\"answer\":\"Because the anthology’s teaching relies on a range of aspects that work together. 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