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Heading – Poetry 7

Heading – Poetry 7. What is your understanding of the word ‘guilt’? When would you feel guilty?. Objective . To get a poem fully examine in a single class. How – jumping into the theme and explaining things along the way. What the words mean is written on the back of the sheet.

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Heading – Poetry 7

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  1. Heading – Poetry 7 What is your understanding of the word ‘guilt’? When would you feel guilty?

  2. Objective • To get a poem fully examine in a single class. • How – jumping into the theme and explaining things along the way. • What the words mean is written on the back of the sheet.

  3. After the Titanic – Derek Mahon They said I got away in a boatAnd humbled me at the inquiry. I tell youI sank as far that night as anyHero. As I sat shivering on the dark waterI turned to ice to hear my costlyLife go thundering down in a pandemonium ofPrams, pianos, sideboards, winches,Boilers bursting and shredded ragtime. Now I hideIn a lonely house behind the seaWhere the tide leaves broken toys and hat-boxesSilently at my door The showers ofApril, flowers of May mean nothing to me, nor theLate light of June, when my gardenerDescribes to strangers how the old man stays in bedOn seaward mornings after nights ofWind, takes his cocaine and will see no-one. Then it isI drown again with all those dimLost faces I never understood. My poor soulScreams out in the starlight, heartBreaks loose and rolls down like a stone.Include me in your lamentations.

  4. Theme: Time We are but a collection of our memories. The old man is haunted by his past, experiences ONLY HE can face. Old age is conveyed again as a lonely and troubled time. (Do you agree?) ‘The Titanic (the ‘unsinkable ship’) is a good metaphor for any life’ – write what you believe I mean by this. Compare the ship to a person.

  5. Theme: Death. What is a life worth? The man in the poem used a lifeboat meant for women and children, who now haunt him. His guilt is such he needs drugs, he has gone crazy and he wishes he was dead too. He welcomes death – did the poet’s grandfather do the same? How?

  6. Homework • There are two questions on the sheet: one concerning the rhyme of the poem (or lack therefore of) and one concerning the images. • Read through the poem again, start those questions and ask anything you want to know now.

  7. Reflection • I think... • I like... • I want to know...

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