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Prayer Before Birth and analysing!

Prayer Before Birth and analysing!. Zoom in on MacNeice’s use of language to present an idea. Zoom in on the narrative tense and person used. Zoom in on the adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs used.

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Prayer Before Birth and analysing!

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  1. Prayer Before Birth and analysing! • Zoom in on MacNeice’s use of language to present an idea. • Zoom in on the narrative tense and person used. • Zoom in on the adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs used. • Zoom in on the structural devices (punctuation marks, sentence lengths and repetition) used.

  2. ZOOM IN! Comment on the words chosen – look closely at the specific ones underlined Consider the structural devices used and the punctuation used. “I am not yet born; O fill meWith strength against those who would freeze myhumanity, would dragoon me into a lethalautomaton,would make me a cog in a machine, a thing withone face, a thing, and against all thosewho would dissipate my entirety, wouldblow me like thistledown hither andthither or hither and thitherlike water held in thehands would spill me”

  3. Prayer Before Birth and evaluating! • Zoom out to show how this links to the cultural contexts of the poem. • Zoom out to show how this particular quotation contrasts with earlier (or later) ‘events’ in the poem. • Zoom out to show how this particular quotation supports or develops your reading of earlier or later events in the novel.

  4. ZOOM OUT Does this develop ideas found in the other stanzas of the poem? Is this sort of imagery or writing style repeated in the poem? • I am not yet born; O fill meWith strength against those who would freeze myhumanity, would dragoon me into a lethalautomaton,would make me a cog in a machine, a thing withone face, a thing, and against all thosewho would dissipate my entirety, wouldblow me like thistledown hither andthither or hither and thitherlike water held in thehands would spill me

  5. Zone of relevance: In the PAST

  6. Your (TWO)6 word quotes and their connotations will go here. SIMPLE Zone of relevance! You will be given baby hexagons to write up your ZOOM IN analysis of the quotes and your Zoom out analysis. Draw your circle on the table. Your notes about the (ZOOM in) language and structural techniques will go here. Your notes about the ZOOM OUT information will go here! Mr Peel will take photos of your completed ZOOM ZONES and reward great work with HPs 

  7. TABLE PLENARY!

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