LQ How does imagery form and structure impact on the poets message bold fathoming deep Starter Adjectives pull grained mantling rise warm streaming replenishing Read these adjectives ID: 686104
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AQA Anthology – Relationships
LQ: How does imagery, form and structure impact on the poet’s message?Slide2
bold
fathoming
deep
Starter:
Adjectives
pull
grained
mantling
rise
warm
streaming
replenishing
Read these adjectives.
What are the connotations of these words individually and collectively?
EXT: These poems are from the collection
Relationships
– what relationship might this adjective group describe?Slide3
Listen:
Imagery
Listen to the reading of the poem.
Make a list of the images used by the poet when describing the relationship with her mother.
Praise Song for My Mother
Grace Nichols wrote this poem following the death of mother.
Look at the images you have collected.
How do the words relate to one another?
Reflect on time, location and colour.What is the purpose of this poem?Slide4
Reflect on time, location and emotion.
What is the purpose of this poem?Slide5
Info blast:
Praise song
The
praise
song is one of the most widely used poetic forms in Africa
; a series of laudatory epithets applied to gods, men, animals, plants and towns that capture the essence
of the object being praised.Professional bards, who may be both praise
singers to a chief and court historians of their tribe
chant praise songs. The praise song is not part of western cultures though the eulogy
is a similar form.
How does form effect our interpretation of the poem?
EXT: How does your knowledge of form enhance your understanding of the poets relationship with her mother?Slide6
Praise Song for My Mother
You were
water to me
deep and bold and fathoming
You weremoon’s eye to me
pull and grained and mantlingYou weresunrise to me
rise and warm and streamingYou were
the fishes red gill to methe flame tree’s spread to methe crab’s leg/the fried plantain smell
replenishing replenishingGo to your wide futures, you said
Annotate:Form and Structure
In your anthology, annotate the poem for the following things:
Repetition
Punctuation Tense
RhythmSlide7
Video:
Context
Grace Nichols talks about her poem 'Praise Song for my Mother'. Using strong visual images of Guyana, she explores how the poem reflects her family life, cultural background and approach to writing poetry and reads extracts from the poem.Slide8
Plenary:
Pick your plenary
The lack of punctuation is a comment on the poet’s feelings for her childhood. How?
This poem is
circular
. What is the impact on meaning of this effect?
The poem is also about her mother
land. How does this shift our understanding?
This poem has similar form and purpose to the haiku
. Why might this be so?
The changes in tense suggest there is life after death. How so?
What is the effect of the poet using the mother’s voice in the last line?
Why choose such a regular form for this poem?
In pairs, pick a plenary question to answer. How many can you prepare to share?