Nicholas Mazza's RES Poetry Therapy Model: An Innovative Method to Teach Poetry in the Context of Indian Schools

<p>Poetry has a special place in the lives of human beings. It has<br>been one of the most famous mediums which humans have<br>used to understand the self and navigate the world for<br>centuries. The relationship of students with poetry is<br>determined and established based on the kind of exposure<br>and orientation that the students receive towards poetry in<br>their school. This research paper is an attempt to understand<br>poetry in general and the place of poetry in the context of<br>Indian culture in particular. How poetry teaching is<br>approached in the context of Indian schools has also been<br>explored. After overviewing the scenario of poetry teaching in<br>the Indian schools, the idea/field of poetry therapy has been<br>introduced. Further, the paper is a study of how the horizon<br>of poetry teaching can be expanded by<br>highlighting/exploiting/tapping the potential of poetry<br>therapy to poetry teaching. How Nicholas Mazza’s RES<br>Poetry Therapy Models can be integrated with poetry<br>teaching has been discussed. A sample poetry teaching plan<br>based on the RES Model has been provided to justify how it<br>can be applied in the context of Indian schools.</p>