GCSE English Literature Section B: Poetry – Anne Hathaway and Homecoming.
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Transcript of GCSE English Literature Section B: Poetry – Anne Hathaway and Homecoming.
MUST: Read and understand the poems Anne Hathaway and Homecoming (D)SHOULD: Annotate the poem, identifying literary devices (C )COULD: Evaluate the similarities and differences between poems studied so far
Anne Hathaway
Married to William Shakespeare
Lived in Shottery near Stratford-upon-Avon
Strange she is never known as Anne Shakespeare
16th Century
Had children with Shakespeare
Anne Hathaway by Carol Ann Duffy
‘Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed…’ (from Shakespeare’s will)
The bed we loved in was a spinning world
of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas
where he would dive for pearls. My lover’s words
were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses
on these lips; my body now a softer rhyme
to his, now echo, assonance; his touch
a verb dancing in the centre of a noun.
Some nights, I dreamed he’d written me, the bed
a page beneath his writer’s hands. Romance
and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste.
In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on,
dribbling their prose. My living laughing love –
I hold him in the casket of my widow’s head
As he held me upon that next best bed.
The poem is written as a fourteen line sonnet (as Shakespeare used to write). However it does not follow the rhyming structure Shakespeare would employ of ababcdcdefefgg. However it does end with a rhyming couplet.
Anne Hathaway by Carol Ann Duffy
‘Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed…’ (from Shakespeare’s will)
The bed we loved in was a spinning world
of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas
where he would dive for pearls. My lover’s words
were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses
on these lips; my body now a softer rhyme
to his, now echo, assonance; his touch
a verb dancing in the centre of a noun.
Some nights, I dreamed he’d written me, the bed
a page beneath his writer’s hands. Romance
and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste.
In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on,
dribbling their prose. My living laughing love –
I hold him in the casket of my widow’s head
As he held me upon that next best bed.
An epigraph
Immediately makes reader question
Exciting / dizzy
Enjambement throughout
Past tense reflecting death
Sibilant ‘s’ reflects fireworks
Sensory imagery
Olfactory imagery
alliteration
caesura
Rhyming couplet
Metaphor for dreams? Also use of onomatopoeia.
Describes the love making through metaphor
simile
Literary devices he used
Small box for storing valuables therefore metaphor
Their love / relationship was special / precious
Summarise what you now know about the poem:
• What is it about? (Content)
• What themes are covered?
• What tone does the poem have?
• What literary devices have been used?
• How effective is the poem for the reader?
Summarise what you now know about the poem:
• What is it about? A woman who reflects on the love shared between her and her late husband
• What themes are covered? Love, romance, dreams
• What tone does the poem have? Soft, loving, reflective
• What literary devices have been used? Enjambement, metaphor, caesura, rhyming couplet, simile, sensory imagery
• How effective is the poem for the reader?
MUST: Read and understand the poems Anne Hathaway and Homecoming(D)SHOULD: Annotate the poem, identifying literary devices (C )COULD: Evaluate the similarities and differences between poems studied so far
Homecoming
ParadeWelcome
“the act of coming home” (Collins English Dictionary)
Celebration
Homecoming Queen?
Homecoming by Simon Armitage
Think, two things on their own and both at once.
The first, that exercise in trust, where those in front
stand with their arms spread wide and free-fall
backwards, blind, and those behind take all the weight.
The second, one canary-yellow cotton jacket
on a cloakroom floor, uncoupled from its hook,
becoming scuffed and blackened underfoot. Back home
the very model of a model of a mother, yours, puts
two and two together, makes a proper fist of it
and points the finger. Temper, temper. Questions
in the house. You seeing red. Blue murder. Bed.
Then midnight when you slip the latch and sneakno further than the call-box at the corner of the street;I’m waiting by the phone, although it doesn’t ringbecause it’s sixteen years or so before we’ll meet.Retrace that walk towards the garden gate; in silhouettea father figure waits there, wants to set things straight.
These ribs are pleats or seams. These arms are sleeves.These fingertips are buttons, or these hands can foldinto a clasp, or else these fingers make a zipor buckle, you say which. Step backwards into itand try the same canary-yellow cotton jacket, there,like this, for size again. It still fits.
Think, two things on their own and both at once.
The first, that exercise in trust, where those in front
stand with their arms spread wide and free-fall
backwards, blind, and those behind take all the weight.
Imperative verb
Internal rhymeWord left at the backwards end of the line alliteration
Try to consider issues from many different perspectives to gain perspective yourself
The second, one canary-yellow cotton jacket
on a cloakroom floor, uncoupled from its hook,
becoming scuffed and blackened underfoot. Back home
the very model of a model of a mother, yours, puts
two and two together, makes a proper fist of it
and points the finger. Temper, temper. Questions
in the house. You seeing red. Blue murder. Bed.
Juxtapositioning of colours through colour imagery
Appears to have lost its ‘safety’ features
Repetition for effect – does it hint at sarcasm?
Wrong assumptions / unfair nature of growing up and teenage years?
Repetition for effect / sarcasm again? / Antagonising situation?
Imperative verb. Order given by parent. Short sentence for effect.
Then midnight when you slip the latch and sneak
no further than the call-box at the corner of the street;
I’m waiting by the phone, although it doesn’t ring
because it’s sixteen years or so before we’ll meet.
Retrace that walk towards the garden gate; in silhouette
a father figure waits there, wants to set things straight.
Stereotypical teenage activity
Dark imagery suggests fearful character
Alliteration – note use of word ‘figure’ suggests not natural father?
What things? Reader is intrigued.
How will things be set straight? For the character’s benefit or through violence?
Harsh sounding alliteration echoes sound of gate?
These ribs are pleats or seams. These arms are sleeves.
These fingertips are buttons, or these hands can fold
into a clasp, or else these fingers make a zip
or buckle, you say which. Step backwards into it
and try the same canary-yellow cotton jacket, there,
like this, for size again. It still fits.
Jacket as extended metaphor for support mechanism (husband?)
You still have the support – it will always be there.
Speaker happy to be dictated to – shows speaker can be trusted
Summarise what you now know about the poem:
• What is it about? (Content)
• What themes are covered?
• What tone does the poem have?
• What literary devices have been used?
• How effective is the poem for the reader?
Summarise what you now know about the poem:
• What is it about? Unsure – about trust and support and how a husband? is there for his wife?
• What themes are covered? Trust, Relationships, Family, Arguments
• What tone does the poem have? Supportive, Calming, Observational
• What literary devices have been used? Enjambement, metaphor, extended metaphor, colour imagery
• How effective is the poem for the reader?