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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?