![]() ![]() In describing the contrapuntal teaching and study of these poems, and the different methods employed in the respective years of teaching them, I suggest that canonical and contemporary poems may reflect on each other in unique and transformative ways. It also provided an opportunity to reflect on teaching practice within the context of decoloniality and to acknowledge the need for ongoing change and review in order to decolonise the curriculum. Auden's "Refugee Blues"-in a week of teaching in each year provided an opportunity for a comparison that encouraged students' observations on poetic voice, racial identity, transhistorical and transcultural human experience, trauma and empathy. 1 Drawing together two poems-Warsan Shire's "Home" and W.H. This article reports on and discusses the experience of a contrapuntal approach to teaching poetry, explored during 20 in a series of introductory poetry lectures in the English 1 course at the University of Johannesburg. Keywords: contrapuntal pedagogy Edward Said Mikhail Bakhtin Warsan Shire W.H. I further posit that poets and poems that engage students may open the way into initially "less relevant" yet ultimately rewarding poems, while remaining important objects of study in themselves. In describing the contrapuntal teaching and study of these poems, and the different methods employed in the respective years of teaching them, I tentatively suggest that canonical Western and contemporary postcolonial poems may reflect on each other in unique and transformative ways. It also provided an opportunity to reflect on teaching practice within the context of decoloniality and to acknowledge the need for ongoing change and review in relation to it. ![]() Drawing together two poems-Warsan Shire's "Home" and W.H. ![]() University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Auden's "Refugee Blues" to First-Year Students Refining Contrapuntal Pedagogy: Reflections on Teaching Warsan Shire's "Home" and W.H. ![]()
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