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Unseen Poetry: Imagery . LO: To explore how images can be used to extend meaning and develop ideas. . The Face of Hunger1 By: Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali I counted the ribs on his concertina chest bones protruding as if chiselled by a sculptor’s hand of famine.
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Unseen Poetry: Imagery LO: To explore how images can be used to extend meaning and develop ideas.
The Face of Hunger1 By: Oswald MbuyiseniMtshali I counted the ribs on his concertina chest bones protruding as if chiselled by a sculptor’s hand of famine. He looked with glazed pupils seeing only a bun of some ____1____ shelf. The skin was pale and taut like ________2___________. His tongue darted in and out like ________3___________. snatching a ____4______ of flies. O! child, your stomach is _________5________ roaring day and night. Words omitted: Confetti Sky-high A glove on a doctor’s hand A den of lions A chameleon’s
Re-read ‘Calender’ on page 19. How does each season make you feel? • ‘Winter’ may have felt slightly sinister. For example, the word infection is quite threatening. • Use of these words is ‘emotive’ • Key term: EMOTIVE: suggesting feelings; emotive language is used to make the reader react in a certain way.
The Face of Hunger • Choose a word or phrase from the poem that you feel is particularly powerful. Explain in writing how it helps you to imagine and how it makes you feel. • For example: • I think that ‘seeing only a bun on a sky high shelf’ is very vivid and moving, because you can imagine the boy desperately longing for something he can never reach – and a bun is not a very substantial food anyway.
Look at the photograph on page 20. • Do you think that the poem is as effective as the poem? Do the photographer and the poet have the same intention? Discuss the emotive impact the poem has as a whole on you.
Turn to page 21 and read sections D and E. • Now read ‘Thickness of Ice’. • Activities 1, 2, 3 and 4.
