1. Poetry exam revise Next Tuesday – 8.30 For homework this week:
Revise the poems
Practice writing questions comparing the poems...

2. HOW TO REVISE… Read the poems again
Use the titles – what poems would you choose to compare for each?
Plan out what you would argue / quote for each

3. To His Coy Mistress
And
The Farmer’s Bride

4. Compare the ways poets write about difficult love affairs in To his coy mistress and The Farmer’s Bride

5. How many sayings can you think of about time?
E.g. Time flies when you are having fun..

6. What do you notice?
Using two different colours, highlight the following:
words or phrases which are about slowing down time
words or phrases which are about speeding things up.

7. Time goes fast…. And slow…
Compare your highlighted words and phrases in pairs or small groups.
Why does Marvell use such contrasting language in the poem?

8. Stop – check your progress
What view of time does Marvell present in this poem – and why?

9. When was this poem written?
Andrew Marvell lived in the 17th century – what was life like then?
How were women supposed to behave?
What might their view of death have been – why might it have been different from ours in the 21st century?

10. Here are the words of the poem in alphabetical order
adore age all always amorous ashes back ball beauty before birds breast but cannot chariot complain conversion coyness crime day deserts deserve devour dew do down dust echoing embrace empires enough eternity every eyes find fine fires Flood for forehead found Ganges’ gates gaze go grave’s grow hear heart honour hue Humber hundred hurrying Indian instant iron Jews lady languish last least lie life like long love love’s lower lust make marble may more morning near now once part pass place please pleasures pore power praise preserved prey private quaint rate rather refuse rest roll rough rubies run shall shouldst show side sits skin slow slow-chapt song soul sound sport stand state still strength strife sun sweetness tear ten thine think thirty thou thousand thy tide till time time’s transpires try turn vast vaster vault vegetable virginity walk way will willing wingèd world worms years yet yonder youthful   
Is he in love?
What words suggest a NEGATIVE view of love?

11. Here are the words of the poem in alphabetical order
adore age all always amorous ashes back ball beauty before birds breast but cannot chariot complain conversion coyness crime day deserts deserve devour dew do down dust echoing embrace empires enough eternity every eyes find fine fires Flood for forehead found Ganges’ gates gaze go grave’s grow hear heart honour hue Humber hundred hurrying Indian instant iron Jews lady languish last least lie life like long love love’s lower lust make marble may more morning near now once part pass place please pleasures pore power praise preserved prey private quaint rate rather refuse rest roll rough rubies run shall shouldst show side sits skin slow slow-chapt song soul sound sport stand state still strength strife sun sweetness tear ten thine think thirty thou thousand thy tide till time time’s transpires try turn vast vaster vault vegetable virginity walk way will willing wingèd world worms years yet yonder youthful   
Circle the words that suggest that this poem expresses negative feelings about love?
How many times does he use the word love?

12. Write a sentence that sums this up for you...
We can tell that the speaker is feeling negatively about the person he is addressing because....

13. Stanza 1
Circle all the verbs which express a condition (I would if I could, I should be able to, I might if…) which suggests that if the lover had time to wait, he would. Why do you think Marvell use this conditional tense?
Identify examples of hyperbole or exaggeration. What is the effect?

14. Stanza 2
Which verb does Marvell repeat in this stanza to signal their possible future fate?
Identify the extended metaphor used to describe the terrifying future the narrator predicts, if the lovers delay.
(An extended metaphor is an image that is continued through several lines).

15. Stanza 3
What words does the poet use to suggest that they must take action immediately?
Identify the pronouns (I, you, we, us, our) the poet uses in this stanza. Why does he use different pronouns in this stanza?

16. Time How do lovers view time? In Hour? In sonnet 116? In sonnet 43?
In Ghazal?

17. ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ By Charlotte Mew
Reading

18. Three Summers since I chose a maid, Too young maybe – but more’s to do
young girl, possibly a virgin

19. Simile – dark, depressing, given up?
wait around
Flirt with a view to marriage
At harvest-time than bide and woo. When us was wed she turned afraid Of love and me and all things human; Like the shut of a winter’s day
Simile – dark, depressing, given up?

20. Alliteration of ‘f’ – emphasises fear
Her smile went out, and ’twasn’t a woman – More like a little frightened fay. One night, in the Fall, she runned away.
fairy
Alliteration of ‘f’ – emphasises fear

21. Rhyming couplets – passion of speaker?
‘Out ’mong the sheep, her be,’ they said, Should properly have been abed; But sure enough she wasn’t there Lying awake with her wide brown stare.
Fear?

22. Simile – fast – terrified!
So over seven-acre field and up-along across the down We chased her, flying like a hare Before our lanterns. To Church-Town All in a shiver and a scare We caught her, fetched her home at last And turned the key upon her, fast.
Rhyming couplet – speeds up pace
Onomatopoeia – petrified!

23. She does the work about the house As well as most, but like a mouse:
Simile - scared.

24. References to nature – innocence, simple
Happy enough to chat and play With birds and rabbits and such as they, So long as men-folk keep away.
References to nature – innocence, simple
Why her fear of men?

25. ‘Not near, not near!’ her eyes beseech When one of us comes within reach. The women say that beasts in stall Look round like children at her call. I’ve hardly heard her speak at all.
Rhyme speeds up – farmer getting desperate?
beg

26. Young hare
Shy as a leveret, swift as he, Straight and slight as a young larch tree, Sweet as the first wild violets, she, To her wild self. But what to me?
Repetition of similes – comparing her to all these natural features – frustration she’s rejecting him?
Positive adjectives – he’s attracted to her

27. Monosyllables – time passing slowly – frustration?
The short days shorten and the oaks are brown, The blue smoke rises to the low grey sky, One leaf in the still air falls slowly down, A magpie’s spotted feathers lie
Monosyllables – time passing slowly – frustration?

28. On the black earth spread white with rime, The berries redden up to Christmas-time. What’s Christmas-time without there be Some other in the house than we!
frost
Extreme contrast – like the farmer and his wife
No child – no sex?

29. She sleeps up in the attic there Alone, poor maid
She sleeps up in the attic there Alone, poor maid. ’Tis but a stair Betwixt us.
between

30. Soft fine fluffy feathers – like a baby bird - vulnerable
Oh! my God! the down, The soft young down of her, the brown, The brown of her – her eyes, her hair, her hair!
Repetition; internal rhyme – bit manic? Obsessed? Is he going to attack her?

31. WHY does Few use images of animals and plants in this poem?

32. What are the associations of these animals / plants?

33. Animals and plants Use a highlighter or marker pen
Work through each verse looking at references to animals and plants.
The farmer appears to think of his wife in terms of animals – comparing her to them all the way through his story.
Question – WHY does the poet use the references to animals and plants? What is the effect?

34. Seasons and colour Highlight references to seasons and colours.
Highlight references to seasons and colours.
HOW does this work in the poem?

35. Like the shut of a winter’s day
This is what writing in detail looks like…

36. The poet says his wife’s smile went out ‘like the shut of a winter’s day’. This simile compares the end of her happiness to the ending of a short day, because the days are shorter in winter. This gives the reader the feeling that her childhood was cut short, like she lost her innocence before her time. The short, harsh sound of the word ‘shut’ perhaps makes us think of the word ‘short’ and might also reflect the suddenness and also the violence of this ending – that her marriage was a brutal end to her happiness. The word ‘winter’ also suggests a coldness and harshness of the winter season, when nothing grows. This gives a harsher feeling to the simile, and a greater finality. However, the winter’s day will be followed by a new day, perhaps suggesting hope for the bride.

37. What you have to do AO1 select detail
AO2 explain effect of language structure and form
AO3 compare and make links
Choose a quote
Explain the effect of the language
Make links across a poem

38. Use the reading ladder
How does this quote show the speaker’s feelings towards his wife?
Oh! my God! the down, The soft young down of her, the brown, The brown of her – her eyes, her hair, her hair

39. Brothers

40. Highlight the verbs... Saddled with you for the afternoon, me and Paul
ambled across the threadbare field to the bus stop,
talking over Sheffield Wednesday’s chances in the Cup
while you skipped beside us in your ridiculous tank-top,
spouting six-year-old views on Rotherham United.
Suddenly you froze, said you hadn’t any bus fare.
I sighed, said you should go and ask Mum
and while you windmilled home I looked at Paul.
His smile, like mine, said I was nine and he was ten
and we must stroll the town, doing what grown-ups do.
As a bus crested the hill we chased Olympic Gold.
Looking back I saw you spring towards the gate,
your hand holding out what must have been a coin.
I ran on, unable to close the distance I’d set in motion.

41. Interview with the poet

42. In the voice of a child
In ‘Brothers’ the poet seeks to capture the qualities of children’s voices and their experiences in the language and techniques he uses.
How does he do that? Use the post it to write down one way this seems to have been written in the voice of the child

43. In the voice of a child – explore writer’s intentions
Why do you think this poet has written this in the voice of a child?
Think of at least two reasons….

44. How does the poet present sibling relationships in this poem?

45. Born Yesterday

46. Homework due Monday 13th May
Compare the ways poets use language to present relationships in Brothers and one other poem

47. Sleeping Beauty What happens at the beginning of this story?
What three wishes would you have for a new born baby?
What could go wrong with these?

48. Look at these key words – pick out four that stand out to you
about all average balance beautiful being bud called catching dull enthralled fact flexible from girl good-looking happiness innocence like love lucky may nothing off ordinary other others possible prove pull rest running shouldn’t skilled something spring stops stuff talents tightly-folded ugly uncustomary unemphasised unworkable vigilant well will wish wished women working

49. Write down your four words in the table
Using dictionaries and thesauruses, find out:
a definition (what the word means) or definitions if the word has more than one meaning
any useful synonyms (words that mean the same thing)
any connotations you can think of (the associations you bring to the word) if and where appropriate.

50. WORD
DEFINITION
SYNONYMS?
CONNOTATION

51. Choose one or two of these words
Write a paragraph – how does Larkin use language for effect?

52. Read the poem immersed
Can you pick out which words are from the original poem?

53. Sister Maude

54. Sister What are the connotations of the word SISTER…..
Think about – books, fairy tales, celebrities, sports stars, pop groups….

55. Sister Maude
The poem deals with a family that is split apart when a new boy comes on the scene.
There are two sisters: both fancy him, but he’s only interested in one of them.
Does the scene sound familiar?
IN groups of four - discuss how families react to new girlfriends or boyfriends, using their own experiences if possible.

56. Sister Maude is a BALLAD - ballads deal with death love and betrayal
Ballad metre. It gives a song-like rhythm to the poem.
Ballads often told a story where death, love and betrayal are common themes.
There are four feet in some of the lines and three feet in others.
Each foot contains two syllables. This means that in some lines there are four stresses and in some there are three stresses.
Traditionally, the ballad metre is written in the following pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables. Da
dum da

57. So the four stressed line sounds like this……Oh
who
but
Maude my
sis
ter

58. Try reading it to yourself – how does it sound?Oh
who
but
Maude my
sis
ter

59. Write down for me
How does Rossetti use repetition to express feelings of anger in this poem?

60. Ways into a poem Repetition – what phrase is repeated in this poem?
What is the effect?

61. Write down now….
How does Rossetti use rhythm to express feelings of anger in this poem?

62. Repetition – what is repeated here? To what effect?
With his clotted curls about his face:
Cold he lies, as cold as stone,

63. Alliteration
How does Rossetti use alliteration to express feelings of anger in this poem?

64. In pairs – what do these poems have in common?

65. Brothers
Both describe negative feelings towards a sibling
Sister Maude

66. Comparing Sister Maude and Brothers
Group 1 – compare rhythm
Group 2 – compare rhyme
Group 3 - compare repetition
Group 4 - compare the use of emotion in each

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