V6 - Literature Lesson - Modern Part 2

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Literature Lesson - Modern Part 2

Today's Lesson

Literature Lesson - Modern Part 2

Reader Page 15: Task 9a
What strikes you about her sentences?

What strikes you about her sentences?

The sentences are long and contain a lot of information

Reader Page 15: Task 9b
In this fragment Mrs Dalloway gives us a lot of information about her past and present life. Mention some instances and also how she feels about them.

Mention some instances and also how she feels about them. 

She thinks about when she was eighteen looking at flowers

She loves London at this moment of June

The war is over: thank Heaven

Reader Page 15: Task 9c
Who else tells us something about her?
What does he say?

Who else tells us something about her?

What does he say?

Scrope Purvis

A charming woman, vivacious, seems younger than she is

Reader Page 16: Task 10a
Listen to Thomas' reading of his poem and write letters to show the end rhyme (a,b,c,etc.), also comment on the meter.

write letters to show the end rhyme (a,b,c,etc.), also comment on the meter. 

Rhyme scheme: ABCDEBDECCA ABCDEECCA

Meter: syllabic meter: each line has the same number of syllables but the number of stresses varies

Reader Page 16: Task 10b
Is this poem a lyric? Why or why not?
(look up lyric in your reader)

Is this poem a lyric? Why or why not?

(look up lyric in your reader)

Yes, Dylan Thomas expresses his state of mind in the poem

Reader Page 16: Task 10c
Write for whom the poem was not written

Write for whom the poem was not written

Not written for:

Not for the ambition of bread (not for success)

Not for the proud man

Nor for the towering dead

It was written for the lovers

Finished!

You have finished today's lesson. 

You know more about the Modern Period 

and a literary work from that time

You have also started preparing for your final test. 

Well done!