Unseen Poetry L.O. All: To understand poetic concepts. Most: To identify poetic features. Ideas or traditio ns GCSE exam: 15 poems 1 or 2
Unseen Poetry
L.O.All: To understand poetic concepts.Most: To identify poetic features.
Ideas or traditions
GCSE exam:15 poems 1 or 2 unseen
What tools do poets use?Powerful
verbs
Images
Sounds
Structure
Emotive language
REPETITION
Powerfuladjectives
Definitions
Sounds
• Rhyme
• Alliteration
• OnomatopoeiaSplash!
Bang!
Miaow
Rat, cat, spat
Rupinder ran really fast
ExamplesPowerful
verbs
Images Similes/Metaphors/Personification
SoundsOnomatopoeiaRhymeAlliteration
StructureEnjambmentStanzas
Emotive language
REPETITION
Powerfuladjectives
Definitions
Let’s read a poem
• We will read the poem twice. The first time, you should just listen.
• The second time, you should annotate any parts of the poem that stand out to you.
Rain splinters town. Lizard cars cruise by; Their radiators grin. Thin headlights stare – shop doorways keep their mouths shut. At the roadside Hunched houses cough. Newspapers shuffle by, hands in their pockets The gutter gargles A motorbike snarls; Dustbins flinch Streetlights bare Their yellow teeth. The motorway’s cat-black tongue lashes across the glistening black of the tarmac night.
Pie Corbett
City Jungle
Annotate Your Poem
• Label the poem according to the poet’s toolkit.
• Can you find an example of each ‘colour’?
10 minutes!
Rain splinters town. Lizard cars cruise by; Their radiators grin. Thin headlights stare – shop doorways keep their mouths shut. At the roadside Hunched houses cough. Newspapers shuffle by, hands in their pockets The gutter gargles A motorbike snarls; Dustbins flinch Streetlights bare Their yellow teeth. The motorway’s cat-black tongue lashes across the glistening black of the tarmac night.
Pie Corbett
City Jungle
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Powerful Adjective
Language Analysis
• Discovering language features within a poem is only the first step.
• The real challenge lies in discussing the effect of the language feature.
Why has the poet chosen that exact word/language feature/line ending?
Example:
Streetlights bare Their yellow teeth.
The personification of ‘bare their … teeth’ suggests that
the city is unfriendly. It makes the reader feel
unsettled and unwelcome, showing that this city is a
threatening place.
The adjective ‘yellow’ suggests the ‘mouth’ of the streetlamps are
unclean. This gives the impression that the city is old and grubby, and not very well looked after, showing the reader that it is not a pleasant
environment to be in.
PEEL Paragraphs
How does the poet use words to make the city seem alive?
P: The poet makes the city seem alive by using…E: For example, he writes, ‘…E: This shows that…L: The simile/adjective ‘…’ makes the…