• To read poetry by significant Welsh authors

•To identify metaphors and similes in poetry

•To identify personification

•To write own poems using some of the above techniques

My car has grown

A woolly cover, yours a crown.

The door-mat’s disappeared.

The hedge has grown a beard.

The bin’s a cornet. Laurel leaves

Are spoonfuls. Along the eaves

A row of glossy swords.

Starlings on the wires strumming chords.

Crocus strikes a match. Birds

Print on the lawn their lines of words.

Trees wear fur. Wire has learnt to knit.

Sheep aren’t white. Grubby as clwt

In need of bleach, they’re at the gate,

Waiting for hay and grumbling that we’re late.

Touch-down and lift-off, look, a crow’s

Been making angels in the snow.

GILLIAN CLARKE

If an object is described as a person or an animal we call it personification. The object or thing is treated as a person

e.g The pen crawled across the page

Find examples in the poem and gather them below

Winter

Riddle

The objects in the poem have all been transformed by a fall of snow. List the objects and put what happens to each one of them. Add a few more objects of your own.

Objects What they do/how we see them

car Grows woolly covers

doormat

Grows beard

Look like spoons

List objects associated with summer and complete the chart to see how the changes they might make

Objects What they do/how we see them

• To read poems by Welsh authors

• To examine personification in poetry

•To write poetic couplets for our class poem