‘Praise Song My Mother’ Lesson Objectives: - to begin to understand what this poem is about
‘POETRY PAINTS PICTURES WITH WORDS’ Look at the images (Pictures) that follow. In this poem the poet compares her mother to each of these objects. Can you think why? WRITE DOWN your ideas as we discuss them.
Water
Moon
Sunrise
Red Gill
Flame Tree
Crab’s Leg and fried Plaintain
Praise Song for My Mother You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming moon’s eye to me pull and grained and mantling sunrise to me rise and warm and streaming the fishes red gill to me the flame tree’s spread to me the crab’s leg/the fried plantain smell replenishing replenishing Go to your wide futures, you said GRACE NICHOLS