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What do you think is being described by the following sets of words?

What do you think is being described by the following sets of words?. wild  strange  magic    ecstatic  monsters  rapture  mysterious fire  apocalyptic . lumbering  steady  great hulks    broad-breasted  gigantic  warm smouldering  manes    . Horses - Edwin Muir (no. 113).

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What do you think is being described by the following sets of words?

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  1. What do you think is being described by the following sets of words? wild  strange  magic    ecstatic  monsters  rapture  mysterious fire  apocalyptic lumbering  steady  great hulks    broad-breasted  gigantic  warm smouldering  manes    

  2. Horses - Edwin Muir (no. 113) 1 Use the class dictionaries to look up any words that you are not sure 
about and to annotate the poems carefully. Also remember that the poems have a glossary underneath. 2 Does the word "lumbering" fit with "terrible", "wild" and "strange" 3 Are there any time shifts in the poem? 4 Identify where the poet seems to refer to a pre industrial age. 5 What is the tone of stanzas 4 and 5? 6 Find an example of personification in the poem 7 How effective is the final verse of the poem. 8 Fill in extra observations on the sheet that you have been given.

  3. One person in each pair swap and share ideas with your new partner 
making sure that you both have a complete set of notes. Homework Research the term Romantic poetry. Make sure that you use more 
than one source (book or website) and make notes. *Deadline next 
Monday. Select a book (of suitable challenge) that you would like to 
present to the group as part of extended reading programme. You 
need to start reading this in your own time. *Bring it in on Friday

  4. Romantic poetry

  5. Pike - Ted Hughes http://poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7079 Listen to the poet talking about the poem and then his reading of the poem 
itself. When it is finished write down your first impressions of the reading. What moods does it bring to mind?

  6. Do these images match the picture that 
you had in your mind?

  7. Pike - Ted Hughes Focus on the descriptive language at the start of the poem. In what ways does the poem discard Romantic notions about 
the natural world? What is its 'instrument' thatisi referred to in stanza 4? In what ways are stanzas 5-7 different from the rest of the 
poem? Is the economy of the last two words of stanza 5 effective? What is the atmosphere of the last verse? In the final line who is watching whom?

  8. Hunting snake There are 3 areas of content to focus on with the poem. They are ... 1 The description of ... 2 The effect the snake has on the ... 3 The brief mention of the creature being ... 2 Do you note anything about the number of syllables being used per line? 3 The effect of alliteration in the poem (verse 3) 4 How might the word 'reeling' have a double meaning in this context? 5 What are the snakes majestic qualities? 6 Does the use of monosyllabic words work with the meaning of the poem?

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