Historical Poetry For Humanistic Education
Table 1:
Form of the History text | Form of historical poetry | Objective of the History text | Transformative objective of historical poetry |
Linearity | Non-linear possibilities | Information | Empathy |
Rational cause and effect | Irrationality in tropes | Political understanding | Humanistic understanding |
Pretence to fact/objectivity | Subjectivity | Presentation of political relations | Presentation of the human cost of historical events |