Historic Recordings: Patricia Beer

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

English Language Arts

Related Academic Standards

Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

CC.1.3.7.B CC.1.3.7.B

Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations drawn from the text.

CC.1.3.7.E CC.1.3.7.E

Analyze how the structure or form of a text contributes to its meaning.

CC.1.3.7.G CC.1.3.7.G

Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g. lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).

CC.1.3.7.H CC.1.3.7.H

Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

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Historic Recordings

Click here to access the historic recordings of Patricia Beer as well as a brief biography of this author.

Description

Patricia Beer (1924-1999) was born in Exmouth, Devon, into a Plymouth Brethren family, a childhood she recalls vividly in her autobiography Mrs. Beer's House. From this page, you can hear the voice of Patricia Beer reading two of her poems, "The Lost Woman" and "The Conjuror." The two poems featured are both about death, a subject she returned to constantly; in particular how the dead haunt the living.

Content Provider

Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded.

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Historic Recordings: Patricia Beer