Love's Coming

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Love's Coming

Literature

Let's read the text together

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By answering the questions

1a. What does the 'she' expect
her lover to be like?

Answer:

To be like a hero, showing how great he is and to set her heart on fire.

1b. And how does he turn
out to be?

Answer:

He is quiet, modest, familiar and brings peace to her heart.

How do you want your (future) lover to be?

Like the woman: they have to be a hero, showing how great they are

Like the man is: quiet, modest, familiar and bringing peace to my heart.

A combination of the two options.

Answer for 1c

Write down your answer to this question.

Make sure it is in line with the poem :)!

Personal answers

Are never wrong, as long as they make sense and they are in line with the poem or text we are reading.

2. Identify the imagery used

Hold on! What was imagery again?

Connect the imagery to the correct description

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

A direct comparison, without the words 'like' or 'as'.

A direct comparison, with the words 'like' or 'as'.

Human traits are applied to non-living objects.

2. Identify the imagery used

Hold on! What was imagery again?

2a. Find the metaphors
and similes.

Answer

• his coming as warrios come (simile; line 1)
• he rode like a prince (simile; line 5)
• stir her soul (metaphor; line 13)
• as the ocean is stirred (simile; line 14)
• balm of a heavenly calm (metaphor; line 15)

2b. What effect do they have on the reader?

Discuss in pairs or small groups.

Answer

• They visualise and bring life to the two contrasting pictures of love:

1. heroic, stormy, sudden & spectacular
2. quiet, familiar & peaceful

3. What is the theme of Love's Coming?

Hold on! What is theme again?

What is a theme?

1. the main idea a writer in story develops
2. the subject(s) a writer wants to talk about

A theme is often

1. a single word
2. a small phrase
3. a single word or small phrase
4. a small phrase or a sentence

3. What is the theme
of 'Love's Coming'?

Correct answer:

Love is not what you expect it to be.
or
Love has many faces.

4. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

Discuss this in pairs or groups of three

4. What is the rhyme scheme
of the poem?

Correct answer:

• ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK

I think I understand this poem well enough for the test.

Yes

No

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