Prayer Before Birth and analysing!
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Transcript of Prayer Before Birth and analysing!
Prayer Before Birth and analysing!• Zoom in on MacNeice’s use of language to
present an idea.• Zoom in on the narrative tense and person used.• Zoom in on the adjectives, nouns, verbs and
adverbs used. • Zoom in on the structural devices (punctuation
marks, sentence lengths and repetition) used.
ZOOM IN!
“I am not yet born; O fill meWith strength against those who would freeze myhumanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton,would make me a cog in a machine, a thing withone face, a thing, and against all thosewho would dissipate my entirety, wouldblow me like thistledown hither andthither or hither and thitherlike water held in thehands would spill me”
Comment on the words chosen – look closely at the specific ones underlined
Consider the structural devices used and the punctuation used.
Prayer Before Birth and evaluating!
• Zoom out to show how this links to the cultural contexts of the poem.
• Zoom out to show how this particular quotation contrasts with earlier (or later) ‘events’ in the poem.
• Zoom out to show how this particular quotation supports or develops your reading of earlier or later events in the novel.
ZOOM OUT
• I am not yet born; O fill meWith strength against those who would freeze myhumanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton,would make me a cog in a machine, a thing withone face, a thing, and against all thosewho would dissipate my entirety, wouldblow me like thistledown hither andthither or hither and thitherlike water held in thehands would spill me
Does this develop ideas found in the other stanzas of the poem?
Is this sort of imagery or writing style repeated in the poem?
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information will go here!
Your notes about the (ZOOM in) language and structural techniques will go here.
Your (TWO)6 word quotes and their connotations will go here.
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write up your ZOOM IN analysis of the quotes and your
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the table.
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completed ZOOM ZONES and reward
great work with HPs
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