Poetry and Writers Different Ways

Casehistory Alison (head injury) Learning Objectives AO1 Respond to texts critically and imaginatively, select and evaluate textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations. AO2 Explain how language, structure and form kick down to keep openrs founderation of ideas, themes and settings. ( Pre-reading activity Here is a riddle for you Who do you hypothesize would be my hubbys wife? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ What about my mothers only daughter? _____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ The title of the meter is Casehistory Alison (head injury). What do you think this meter is red to be about? ( Make a note of your ideas. ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ __________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ wherefore might you talk about yourself in the trey person? What is the consequence? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ( Take 2 minutes to discuss the performance with your partner.Swap and develop your ideas. turn tail back your ideas to the rest of the class. First impressions ( Read the poem. ______________________ ________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ______________ ____________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ________________________ _____________________ What do you think has happened to Alison? The inception decipher above has a play-like feel.Imagine how this scene might look on stage. ( In the cuff below, sketch out the scene you imagine. In the notes box below, summarise your vision of the action. How might you describe the attitude of the speaker of the poem? ( Choose the word or phrase that gives you this impression and hold open it in the box below. The first-year one has been done for you. Alison seems Wistful ____________ ____________ What does the younger Alison prevail that the Alison of the present does not? ( Fill in the table below. Alison of the past Alison of the present Autocratic knee / Like a Degas terpsichoreans Knees that now lug her upstairs / Hardly Lets resume a closer look ( Answer the following questions by providing quotes and psychoanalysis. moot PEA point, example, analysis. 1. The poem is arranged in even, regular three line stanzas. What is the exit on the reader? _____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Where does this regular pattern come to an END, and what is the effect of this? ______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ________ 3. There are dickens lines in the poem that begin with a single word followed by a full stop. What are they, and what is the effect on the reader? _____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Poetry detective Spot the following lingual and structural devices at work in the poem. What is their PURPOSE and EFFECT? techniques examples and analysis of their effect Parenthesis (She looks at her photograph) ( ) Ambiguity (the puzzle / riddle of the first stanza) Mid-line full stops Repetition Powerful adjectives enjambment accustom of the third person Get creative AO2 Explain how language, structure and form lend to writers prese ntation of ideas, themes and settings. ( Using Casehistory Alison (head injury) as a guide, you are going to write a poem of your own, using pictures of historical figures as inspiration. You are going to bring the long-dead subject of the painting to life in the form of a dramatic monologue ( Take an online stroll through the 30 must-see paintings suspension in The National Gallery www. nationalgallery. org. uk/paintings/explore-the-paintings/30-highlight-paintings/ ( Which character did you choose? _____________________________ Writers toolbox ( With your choice of speaker in mind, tick the techniques you think would be useful in creating an accurate voice for your poem. Think about the think effect of your selected techniques. If necessary, you can add additional techniques at the bottom. Poetic techniques Use Intended effect Rhyme Non-standard English Mid-line full stops Enjambment Assonance Repetition Alliteration Metaphors Similes Onomatopoei a Get writing _________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ __________________ ____________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ My Itchy Toes expression Loads ( Complete the table below with wh at you consider to be the to the highest degree important quotes and poetic devices within all(prenominal) category. meaning imagery stair Structure and Form language Comparing poems AO3 Make comparisons and explain associate between texts, evaluating writers different shipway of expressing meaning and achieving effects Use the Venn draw to find the differences and similarities between the two poems. Sample exam question and medusa. Comparing poems AO3 Make comparisons and explain links between texts, evaluating writers different ways of expressing meaning and achieving effects ( Use the Venn diagram to find the differences and similarities between the two poems. Sample exam question Planning an essay ( Using MITSL as a guide, create an essay plan or spider diagram for your essay question. You must include 3 5 points of comparison. Number each point in the order you would write about them in your exam. When you write your essay, remember to analyse structural and poetic devices for their effect and meaning. Dont just list. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Casehistory Alison (head injury) (She looks at her photograph) I would like to have known My husbands wife, my mothers only daughter. A bright girl she was. Enmeshed in comforting 5 Fat, I wonder at her delicate angles. Her autocratic knee Like a Deg as dancers Adjusts to the observer with airy poise, That now lugs me upstairs 10 Hardly. Her face, scattered By nothing sharper than smiles, holds in its smiles What I