After-school Revision
Poetry from Different Cultures
Objective – I can compare poems,
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• Structure
• Theme
• Rhythm and Rhyme
• Imagery
• Vocabulary
• Explain why and how.
Structure
1. Is it significant?
2. Why is it chosen?
3. How does it work?
Helpful terms: stanza, lines,
caesura, enjambment, sonnet,
ballad, turning point.
Theme
1. What ideas can be linked to this
poem?
Help: language, traditions, culture,
symbols of culture, people, places,
sound, identity, change, war,
justice, social equality, freedom,
violence, repression, restrictions,
aspirations, power.
Imagery
1. What writing techniques are
present?
2. Why are they used?
3. How do they link with the
themes?
Useful terms: simile, metaphor,
personification, adjectives,
adverbs.
Vocabulary
1. What writing techniques are present?
2. Why are they used?
3. How does they link with the themes?
4. Are there any patterns of language?
Useful terms: alliteration, onomatopoeia,
sibilance, assonance, juxtaposition,
oxymoron.
Past
Questions
Structure and look on
Imagery and
Vocabulary
the page
F - Compare how
are used for
in “Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in
a Mercedes” with the ways language and layout are
used for effect in one other poem of your choice from
the Poems from Different Cultures.
Write about:
Possible Poems:
• how language is used for effect
in each of the two
•Limbo
poems
•Nothings Changed
Man of the two poems
• how layout is used for effect•Island
in each
•What Were They Like?
• similarities between the •Search
poet’sForuse
of language and lay
My Tongue
out
•Unrelated Incidents
•Half Caste
• differences between the poet’s
use of language and
•Not My Business
layout.
•Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan
Possible Plan
STRIVE
“Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two
Beautiful People in a Mercedes”
Structure
2nd line indented – explain why this fits.
Stanzas get shorter at the end – explain
effect.
Enjambment - why they used?
Theme
culture, symbols of culture, people,
places, identity, justice, social equality,
freedom, repression, aspirations, power
Explain how these fit in with S.
Rhythm and
Rhyme
Line break stops rhythm – like traffic
light?
“seas”/”democracy” rhyme links – why?
Imagery
Metaphors – what and why they used?
Colours - what and why they used?
Clothes - what and why they used?
Vocabulary
Assonance -what and why they used?
Contrasts - what and why they used?
H - Compare the ways people are
presented in “Vultures” with the ways
people are presented in one other poem
Write about:
Possible Poems:
• how language is to present people•Blessing
in each of the two
poems
•Nothings Changed
•Island Man
• how layout is used to present people
in each of the two
•Two Scavengers in a Truck...
poems
•Night of the Scorpion
• similarities between the poet’s
use
ofThey
language
and lay out
•What
Were
Like?
•Half-Caste
• differences between the poet’s use
of language and layout
•Unrelated Incidents
•Not My Business
•Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan
Possible Plan
STRIVE
“Vultures”
Structure
Long unbroken stanza– explain why this
fits with the person.
Indent shows change of focus– explain
why used.
Enjambment - why they used?
Caesura – why is it there?
Theme
culture, people, places, identity, change,
justice, violence, repression, power.
Rhythm and
Rhyme
Line break separates each separate
thought - why?
Imagery
Metaphors – what and why they used?
Body parts- what and why they used?
Sweets- why they used?
Juxtaposition – what and why used?
Vocabulary
Assonance -what and why they used?
alliteration- what and why they used?
Imagery and
Vocabulary
F - Compare the ways poets us
in
“Search for my Tongue” and one other poem of
your choice from the Poems from Different
Cultures.
Write about:
Possible Poems:
•Limbo in “Search for
• the way the poet uses description
•Nothings Changed
My Tongue”
•Island Man
•What Were They Like?
• the way the poet uses description
in one other
•Search For My Tongue
•Unrelated Incidents
poem
•Half Caste
•Not My Business
• similarities between•Presents
the poet’s
use description
from My Aunts in Pakistan
• differences between the poet’s use description
Possible Plan
STRIVE
“Search For My Tongue”
Structure
Guajarati in the middle– explain what it
looks like and why this fits with the
theme.
Theme
language, culture, symbols of culture,
sound, identity, change, freedom,
repression, aspirations, power.
Rhythm and
Rhyme
Syllables create a steady measures beat
which becomes more musical with the
Guajarati- why do they link to the
description?
Imagery
Metaphors – what and why they used?
Flowers and plants - what and why they
used?
Movement – what words and why they
used?
Juxtaposition – what and why used?
Vocabulary
Adjectives -what and why they used?
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H- Compare how poets us
in “This Room” and
one other poem.
Write about:
Possible Poems:
•Limbo
• the way the poet uses description
in “Search
•Nothings Changed
for My Tongue”
•Island Man
•Blessing
• the way the poet uses
in one other
•Twodescription
Scavengers in a Truck...
•Night of the Scorpion
poem
•Vultures
•Whatpoet’s
Were Theyuse
Like? description
• similarities between the
•Search For My Tongue
After Love
• differences between the•Love
poet’s
use
•Half Caste
description
•Not My Business
•Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan
•Hurricane Hits England
Themes
Imagery and
Vocabulary
F - Compare the ways an event is
in
“Blessing” with the way an event is described
one other poem from the Poems from
Different Cultures.
Compare:
Possible Poems:
•Limbo
• what the events are
•Two Scavengers in a Truck
•Night of the Scorpion
• the methods used to describe
them.
•Vultures
•What Were They Like?
•Unrelated Incidents
•This Room
•Not My Business
•Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan
•Hurricane Hits England
Structure, Imagery and Vocabulary
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F - Compare the methods the poets use
in “Search for my Tongue” and
one other poem of your choice from the Poems
from Different Cultures.
Compare:
Possible Poems:
• the people•Limbo
in the poems
•Nothings Changed
• the places•Island
in the
Man poems
•Blessing
• How the•Two
people
connect with the places in the
Scavengers
poems•What Were They Like?
•Love After Love
• The methods
used by the poets to show these
•This Room
•Not My Business
things
•Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan
•Hurricane Hits England