1. No Ordinary Sun
By Hone Tuwhare

2. Mood and Tone
Tone and mood both deal with the emotions centred around a piece of writing. Though they seem similar and can in fact be related, they are in fact quite different.

3. Tone
Tone is the writer’s/director’s attitude toward a subject. While journalistic writing theoretically has a tone of distance and objectivity, all other writing can have various tones.
If we were to read a description of a first date that included words and phrases like “dreaded” and “my buddies forced me to go on the date”, we could assume that the individual didn’t really enjoy the date.

4. Mood
Mood is the atmosphere of a piece of writing; it’s the emotions a text arouses in a reader.

5. Hone Tuwhare Born in Kaipara in 1922. Died in Otago 2008.
Tribal affiliations; Ngapuhi, Ngati Korokoro, Ngati Tautahi, Te Popoto, Uri-O-Hau.
Apprenticed and worked as a boilermaker.
Played a very active role in the Trade Union Movement – eventually kicked out for being a troublemaker.
Began writing poetry seriously at the age of 34.
Published many poems in magazines and a number of poetry collections.
"No Ordinary Sun" was published in 1964 and is still considered one of his most powerful poems. He was the first maori (writing in English) to have poetry published in NZ.

6. No Ordinary Sun Unfamiliar Words Supplication Resilience
a humble and sincere appeal to somebody who has the power to grant a request
Resilience
the ability to recover quickly from setbacks

7. No Ordinary Sun Unfamiliar Words Deferential
Showing or expressing polite respect or courtesy
Ardour
Great passion, enthusiasm, or eagerness

8. No Ordinary Sun Unfamiliar Words Unheeding Paying little attention
Vain entreaties
Hopeless appeal, ineffective request

9. No Ordinary Sun Unfamiliar Words Gallant monsoon
Grand and majestic ‘wave’/’wind’
Trade wind
A wind that blows towards the equator - a major component of the global weather system

10. No Ordinary Sun Unfamiliar Words enhaloed
A circle/ring of light (in this instance around the cloud)

11. No Ordinary Sun
Personification

12. No Ordinary Sun Personification Let your arms lack toughness
Who is the poet addressing?

13. No Ordinary Sun Personification Let your arms lack toughness
Who is the poet addressing?
The tree

14. No Ordinary Sun Let your arms lack toughness
What other instances of personification can you find in the poem?

15. No Ordinary Sun Personification Let your arms lack toughness
What other instances of personification can you find in the poem?
O tree/…a deferential head/…your naked arms fall/…More?

16. No Ordinary Sun – In pairs
Highlight and count the number of times the words no, not, nor are used in the first four verses.
What does their use suggest?

17. No Ordinary Sun – In pairs
What kind of associations do the words supplication and enhaloed have?

18. No Ordinary Sun – In pairs
What relationship does an axe and fire usually have to a tree?
How is the use of this in line five, verse one connected to the bright enhaloed cloud?

19. No Ordinary Sun – In pairs
What picture of the tree is suggested in verse two with the words
rising sap, inclining head, stirring to the tickle of the rain?

20. No Ordinary Sun – In pairs
What three activities does verse 3 suggest that the tree used to be involved in before?

21. No Ordinary Sun – In pairs
What three activities does verse 3 suggest that the tree used to be involved in before?
Wreathed with birds, shield and cool the lovers
Before what?

22. No Ordinary Sun – In pairs
What is the connection between..
CLOUD
MONSTROUS SUN
RADIANT BALL
FLASH
BLAST
What image do you have in your mind when reading these words?

23. No Ordinary Sun – In pairs

24. No Ordinary Sun – In pairs
Poetic Devices
Alliteration
Personification
Assonance
Rhyme
Rhythm
Find at least three examples for each in the poem.