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Goals for today
Consideration of a poem by Carol Ann Duffy
Note expansion to find salient points
Concepts in the poem and techniques
The poetic persona
Slide 1 - Diapositive
"Stealing"
Read and listen to the text given to your group.
The title is "Stealing"
Cut up and arrange the text so that it becomes a poem. Think about where you would like the emphasis to fall. Will you make stanzas? If so, how many and why?
Consider carefully the message and the persona.
We will check your choices against the original.
Slide 2 - Diapositive
Answer these questions
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
Slide 3 - Diapositive
Answer these questions
Who? A bored and angry young delinquent who steals.
What? a snowman, a bust of Shakespeare, (joy-ride) cars, a camera, a guitar
When? the persona is bored or angry
Where?In gardens, from houses and homes
Why? to relieve the boredom and anger
Expand this kernel sentence: steals items
Slide 4 - Diapositive
Answer these questions
To relieve feelings of anger and boredom, the young delinquent steals items, such as a snowman, a guitar and a bust of Shakespeare, from people's homes and gardens.
Slide 5 - Diapositive
What concepts does this poem address?
Selfishness
Isolation
Boredom
Alienation
Anger
Greed
Materialism
Self-loathing
For the concepts that you have generated, write next to each stanza which concept you feel is highlighted in that stanza.
Slide 6 - Diapositive
What was stolen?
Why might the poet have chosen these items?
Slide 7 - Diapositive
Questions
The poem starts and ends with two forms of interrogative.
1. What kind of question is the first one?
2. What kind is the last one?
3. What impression do these two questions give of the persona and the situation in which they are 'speaking'?
Hypophora = A figure of speech where the speaker raises a question and then answers it.
Rhetorical question = a question to which no answer is required: used esp for dramatic effect. The answer is implied.
Slide 8 - Diapositive
Goals for today
Consideration of a poem by Carol Ann Duffy
Exploration of some authorial choices made by the poet
The poetic persona guiding question
Visualising the poetic persona
Slide 9 - Diapositive
Rikard
Robin
Coen
Anna
Kate
Zoë
Elsje
Andrea
Emilia
Aamu
Kim
Hugo
Erik
Shamatmika
Ella
Lena
Mia
Damien
Cleo
Neysa
Megan
Dheeshitha
Alastrina
Slide 10 - Diapositive
Poem as a whole
1. How does the personification of the snowman enlighten the reader about the poetic persona?
2. How does the sibilant alliteration (specifically m-,s- and w- sounds) reflect the experience of stealing the snowman and how the poetic persona feels about that initial event in the first stanza?
3. How is enjambment and end stop lines used to speed up or slow down the reading process?
Hypophora = A figure of speech where the speaker raises a question and then answers it.
Rhetorical question = a question to which no answer is required: used esp for dramatic effect. The answer is implied.
Slide 11 - Diapositive
Poem as a whole
1. Look closely at the use of colloquial and slang language. Find examples of this and explore what information they give about the poetic persona and us, as the readers.
2. Discuss the metaphor of "I am a mucky ghost".
3. Mark the use of "I". What is the effect of the amount of use of the first person singular pronoun? Note when "you" is used.
Hypophora = A figure of speech where the speaker raises a question and then answers it.
Rhetorical question = a question to which no answer is required: used esp for dramatic effect. The answer is implied.
Slide 12 - Diapositive
Poem as a whole
1. Look at the asyndeton (lack of coordinating conjunctions where they would be expected), usually in a list. "cars to nowhere, break into houses", "leave a mess, maybe pinch a camera". What feeling do you get about the persona through this "voice"?
2. The speaker seems to feel some affinity to the snowman in the first stanza. In the fourth stanza he destroys the snowman. Symbolically what could this suggest?
Hypophora = A figure of speech where the speaker raises a question and then answers it.
Rhetorical question = a question to which no answer is required: used esp for dramatic effect. The answer is implied.
Slide 13 - Diapositive
"Stealing"
Guiding question:
How does the persona of the speaker impact and shape the reader’s response to this poem?
Slide 14 - Diapositive
Upload an image depicting the poetic persona of this poem
Slide 15 - Question ouverte
"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 the image quotes, the techniques seen in those quotes and how these quotes support your visual of the poetic persona.