Unseen Poetry

L.O.All: To understand poetic concepts.Most: To identify poetic features.

Ideas or traditions

GCSE exam:15 poems 1 or 2 unseen

Draw a mind map in your books: write down everything you know

about poetry.

What tools do poets use?Powerful

verbs

Images

Sounds

Structure

Emotive language

REPETITION

Powerfuladjectives

Definitions

Sounds

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• OnomatopoeiaSplash!

Bang!

Miaow

Rat, cat, spat

Rupinder ran really fast

ExamplesPowerful

verbs

Images Similes/Metaphors/Personification

SoundsOnomatopoeiaRhymeAlliteration

StructureEnjambmentStanzas

Emotive language

REPETITION

Powerfuladjectives

Definitions

Let’s read a poem

• We will read the poem twice. The first time, you should just listen.

• The second time, you should annotate any parts of the poem that stand out to you.

Rain splinters town. Lizard cars cruise by; Their radiators grin. Thin headlights stare – shop doorways keep their mouths shut. At the roadside Hunched houses cough. Newspapers shuffle by, hands in their pockets The gutter gargles A motorbike snarls; Dustbins flinch Streetlights bare Their yellow teeth. The motorway’s cat-black tongue lashes across the glistening black of the tarmac night.

Pie Corbett

City Jungle

Annotate Your Poem

• Label the poem according to the poet’s toolkit.

• Can you find an example of each ‘colour’?

10 minutes!

Rain splinters town. Lizard cars cruise by; Their radiators grin. Thin headlights stare – shop doorways keep their mouths shut. At the roadside Hunched houses cough. Newspapers shuffle by, hands in their pockets The gutter gargles A motorbike snarls; Dustbins flinch Streetlights bare Their yellow teeth. The motorway’s cat-black tongue lashes across the glistening black of the tarmac night.

Pie Corbett

City Jungle

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Powerful Adjective

Language Analysis

• Discovering language features within a poem is only the first step.

• The real challenge lies in discussing the effect of the language feature.

Why has the poet chosen that exact word/language feature/line ending?

Example:

Streetlights bare Their yellow teeth.

The personification of ‘bare their … teeth’ suggests that

the city is unfriendly. It makes the reader feel

unsettled and unwelcome, showing that this city is a

threatening place.

The adjective ‘yellow’ suggests the ‘mouth’ of the streetlamps are

unclean. This gives the impression that the city is old and grubby, and not very well looked after, showing the reader that it is not a pleasant

environment to be in.

PEEL Paragraphs

How does the poet use words to make the city seem alive?

P: The poet makes the city seem alive by using…E: For example, he writes, ‘…E: This shows that…L: The simile/adjective ‘…’ makes the…

• Write down 3 things that you have learnt about poetry today.• Write down 1 question that you

would like to ask about poetry next lesson.