Sunday, May 19, 2019

Poetry and Writers Different Ways

Casehistory Alison (head injury) Learning Objectives AO1 Respond to texts critically and imaginatively, accept and evaluate textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations. AO2 Explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers innovation of ideas, themes and settings. ( Pre-reading activity Here is a riddle for you Who do you think would be my husbands wife? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ What close my mothers only daughter? _____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ The title of the verse is Casehistory Alison (head injury). What do you think this verse form is spillage to be about? ( Make a note of your ideas. ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ __________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Why might you talk about yourself in the third person? What is the effect? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ( Take 2 minutes to discuss the effect with your partner.Swap and beat your ideas. Feed back your ideas to the rest of the class. First impressions ( Read the poem. ______________________ ________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ______________ ____________ __________________________ __________________________ ________________________ _____________________ What do you think has happened to Alison? The opening line in a higher place has a play-like feel.Imagine how this thought might look on stage. ( In the box 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? ( distinguish the word or phrase that gives you this impression and write it in the box below. The original one has been make for you. Alison seems Wistful ____________ ____________ What does the younger Alison have that the Alison of the indue does not? ( Fill in the table below. Alison of the past Alison of the present Autocratic knee / Like a Degas dancers Knees that without delay lug her upstair / Hardly Lets take a closer look ( Answer the following questions by providing quotes and ana lysis. Think PEA point, example, analysis. 1. The poem is arranged in even, regular three line stanzas. What is the effect on the reader? _____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Where does this regular pattern come to an END, and what is the effect of this? ______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 3. There are two lines i n 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 linguistic 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 spend of the third person Get originative AO2 Explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers presentation of ideas, themes and se ttings. ( 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 prevail over of the painting to life in the form of a dramatic monologue ( Take an online stroll with the 30 must-see paintings hanging 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 go for your poem. Think about the intended 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 Onomatopoeia Get writing _________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ______________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ My Itchy Toes Smell Loads ( Complete the table below with what you consider to be the most impor tant quotes and poetic devices within each category. meaning imagery tone Structure and habitus language compare poems AO3 Make comparisons and explain links between texts, evaluating writers different ways of expressing meaning and achieving effect Use the Venn plot 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 let in 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 meanin g. 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 clear angles. Her autocratic knee Like a Degas dancers Adjusts to the observer with airy poise, That now lugs me upstai rs 10 Hardly. Her face, broken By nothing sharper than smiles, holds in its smiles What I

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