Exploration of some authorial choices made by the poet
The poetic persona guiding question
Visualising the poetic persona
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EngelsUpper Secondary (Key Stage 4)GCSE
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Goals for today
Completion "Stealing"
Consideration of another poem by Carol Ann Duffy
Exploration of some authorial choices made by the poet
The poetic persona guiding question
Visualising the poetic persona
Slide 1 - Diapositive
Rikard
Robin
Coen
Anna
Kate
Zoë
Elsje
Andrea
Emilia
Aamu
Kim
Hugo
Erik
Shamatmika
Ella
Lena
Mia
Damien
Cleo
Megan
Neysa
Dheeshitha
Alastrina
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"Stealing"
1. Put your image into your class notebook (add a tab 'Carol Ann Duffy Poetry' if you do not already have that tab).
2. Add to your image quotes, the techniques seen in those quotes and how these quotes support your visual of the poetic persona.
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Slide 3 - Diapositive
"Education for Leisure" What ideas, associations, concepts come to mind from this title?
Slide 4 - Carte mentale
Reading to the punctuation
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Slide 6 - Vidéo
Consideration of a poem by Carol Ann Duffy
Note expansion to find salient points
Concepts in the poem and techniques
The poetic persona
Slide 7 - Diapositive
Which, according to you is the "best" line in this poem?
Slide 8 - Carte mentale
Answer these questions
Who?
What?
When?
Why?
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Answer these questions
Who? an unemployed young person who thinks he is a genius
What? He kills the goldfish (maybe kills or tortures the budgie and the cat)
When? Today, an ordinary day
Why? Because he wants to play God for a day
Expand this kernel sentence: decides to take control
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Summary sentence
On an ordinary day, a young unemployed person, who thinks he is a genius and wants to play God for a day, decides to take control of his life by killing a fly and a goldfish and wanting to hurt others.
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"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; / They kill us for their sport."
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Allusion
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"God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day."
Genesis 1:31
Allusion
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Colloquial
Caesura
enjambment
Stanza
Alliteration
Allusion
End-stopped lines
Anthropomorphism
Symbolism
Repetition
Free verse
How is the topic of alienation and narcissism explored in this poem?
Pathetic fallacy
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AWL
Slide 15 - Diapositive
Read Mrs Scholfield's GCSE
Read the note on this poem.
Research each of the references to Shakespeare's works.