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Medusa was a very attractive mortal who was admired for her
beauty and lovely locks. One day, Poseidon, the God of the Sea,
seduced Medusa in Athenas temple. Athena, the Goddess of
war strategy and the protector of land, was very angry that
Medusa disgraced her in her temple; therefore, she took
Medusas beauty away and turned her into an ugly Gorgon with
snakes on her head. From then on, any person that Medusa
looked at would turn into stone. This obviously meant that she
could never fall in love or have herself attached to someone again. Perseus, a Greek
hero, was able to cut off Medusas head by using a polished shield from Athena. He saw
Medusa in the reflection of the shield (this allowed him not to turn to stone) and was able
to use her head to combat many future battles.
In this poem, Medusa expresses her bitter feelings about becoming old and, in a sense,
unwanted. She is directing the poem to her husband, her Greek God.
Poetry detectives
Work in pairs to make a note of examples (quotations) from the poem in the table
below.
Poetic techniques
and devices
alliteration
assonance
metaphor
verbs
repetition
questions
imperative sentences
pleasant images
ugly images
narrative voice
Examples
Stanza 1
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Stanza 2
What does my brides breath soured imply?
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Why should Medusas husband be terrified?
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Stanza 3
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Why is it terrifying that Medusa loves him? What are the consequences?
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What is the effect of the internal rhyme in youll go, betray me, stray from
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home?
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Why is it better if he is stone? What does that allow Medusa to do? Hint: Think
about how she is feeling.
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Stanzas 4-5
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2.
What do the images of the bee, singing bird, ginger cat and snuffling pig
convey? What is Medusa not able to allow herself to do?
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Stanza 6
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2.
What is the significance of And here you come? What is the tone?
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What emotions are displayed in this stanza and how are they displayed?
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Why is the last line poignant? What is she tempting him to do?
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meaning
imagery
tone
Structure
and Form
language
Comparing poems
AO3: Make comparisons and explain links between texts, evaluating writers
Medusa
my last duchess
Comparing poems
AO3: Make comparisons and explain links between texts, evaluating writers
Medusa
Planning an essay
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Using MITSL as a guide, create an essay plan or spider diagram for your essay
question. You must include 3 - 5 points of comparison. Number each point in the order
you would write about them in your exam. When you write your essay, remember to
analyse structural and poetic devices for their effect and meaning. Dont just list.
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Ozymandias
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The title
What is the meaning of Shelleys title?
Ozymandias
Ozy comes from the Greek
ozium which means
either, to breathe or
air.
Now that you understand the meaning of the title, how do these ideas link
to the poem?
Make a note of your ideas.
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Pharaoh Facts
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Answer the following questions by providing quotes and analysis. Think PEA point, example, analysis.
Why does Shelley use vast to describe the remains of the statue, rather than big?
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What does the noun, frown and the noun phrase wrinkled lip suggest about the nature of
the Pharaoh?
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Up until line five, Shelleys focus is on, primarily, the image of the statue in the
desert.
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Underline each NOUN and highlight each adjective up until line five. Then, using
this to aid you, in the space below, draw an image of Shelleys creation of Egypt.
Make sure you draw every object the way they are described by the poet.
At line 6, the poem subject shifts to the sculptor, Ozymandiass servant: its sculptor well those
passions read How does this extract support your previous answers?
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c. How many references are there to Ozymandias himself in these lines? What does this
suggest?
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d. Mighty is a noun in line 11. Who does it refer to?
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e. Using punctuation, how has Shelley created the superior status of Ozymandias? Note and
explain two examples.
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Describe the grammar of this sentence: Nothing beside remains. What is its effect? Think
about the contrast with the previous lines.
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Whose work has lasted - Ozymandias or the sculptors? What do you think Shelley is
suggesting?
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meaning
imagery
tone
Structure
and Form
languag
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Comparing poems
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the two poems.
Ozymandias
my last duchess
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Comparing poems
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Use the Venn diagram to find the differences and similarities between
the two poems.
Ozymandias
Medusa
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Planning an essay
Using MITSL as a guide, create an essay plan or spider diagram for
your essay question.
Number each point in the order you would write about them in your
exam. When you write your essay, remember to analyse structural and
poetic devices for their effect and meaning. Dont just list.
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Stanza 1
Driving home through the shonky side of town,
three times out of ten youll see the town clown,
like a basket of washing that got up
and walked, towing a dog on a rope. But
What does the phrase, the shonky side of town, suggest about the Clown
Punks status?
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What does this simile imply about the Clown Punk? Describe its
effectiveness.
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What do the verbs, driving, got up, walked and towing have in common?
Why does Simon Armitage end with But in the first stanza? What does it
cause you to do? Think about rhythm.
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Stanza 2
dont laugh: every pixel of that mans skin
is shot through with indelible ink;
as he steps out at the traffic lights,
think what hell look like in thirty years time
What are imperative verbs and what are the effects of Armitages use of
them?
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Why does Armitage use a hyphen at the end of the stanza? What does it
cause the reader to do?
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Stanza 3
the deflated face and shrunken scalp
still daubed with the sad tattoos of high punk.
You kids in the back seat who wince and scream
when he slathers his daft mush on the windscreen,
Why are the adjectives deflated and shrunken effective? What are their
connotations?
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Stanza 4
remember the clown punk with his dyed brain,
then picture windscreen wipers, and let it rain.
What does the imperative fourth stanza suggest? What do you think Armitage
is trying to convey?
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When asked about this poem, Armitage said that a man he used to see
on the street influenced him. He stated:
I used to see around town quite a lot, who once pressed his face up against the
windscreen of my car while I was stopped at the traffic lights. There's a tradition in
English Literature of writing such poems, where one type of person stands eyeball to
eyeball with another type, and something passes between them.
Sex Pistols
Look at the following album cover for the Sex Pistols.
What do you think their or other punks political views were? Make a note
of your ideas in the space below.
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imagery
tone
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Structure
and Form
language
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Exam question
Compare the attitudes presented towards a disadvantaged person in
The Clown Punk and The Hunchback in the Park
Planning an essay
Using MITSL as a guide, create an essay plan or spider diagram for your
essay question. You must include 3 - 5 points of comparison. Number each
point in the order you would write about them in your exam. When you write
your essay, remember to analyse structural and poetic devices for their
effect and meaning. Dont just list.
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2. Why do you think that British history is widely taught across the world?
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3. What reasons might there be to teach young people about the history of other cultures as well
as British history?
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history s/he has been taught in school. Agard himself was born in Guyana in
South America in 1949 and moved to England in 1977.
Spot the following poetic techniques and devices at work in the poem. What is their
PURPOSE and EFFECT?
techniques
short lines
italics
non-standard
english
repetition
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lack of
punctuation
a range of
historical
events /
figures
rhyme
Stanzas 1 3
Dem tell me
Dem tell me
Wha dem want to tell me
Bandage up me eye with me own history
Blind me to me own identity
Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat
dem tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat
But Toussaint LOuverture
no dem never tell me bout dat
What can we infer about the speaker?
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Who do you think dem refers to?
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Why do you think the poet has included a mixture of real events, characters from childrens
stories and nursery rhymes?
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Select an effective noun phrase used to describe each historical figure. Discuss the effect of
each noun phrase and how the speakers praise for them is made clear.
Toussaint LOuverture
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Nanny de Maroon
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What might the metaphor I carving out me identity mean? Think about the connotations of the
verb to carve.
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What could you infer about the way the speaker feels about his or her identity from this stanza?
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meaning
imagery
tone
Structure
and Form
language
Comparing poems
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AO3: Make comparisons and explain links between texts, evaluating writers
different ways of expressing meaning and achieving effects
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Use the Venn diagram to find the differences and similarities between the two poems.
Planning an essay
Using MITSL as a guide, create an essay plan or spider diagram for your essay question.
You must include 3 - 5 points of comparison. Number each point in the order you would write
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about them in your exam. When you write your essay, remember to analyse structural and
poetic devices for their effect and meaning. Dont just list.
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Medusa
is presented in each
poem?
Which words or
phrases do you find
particularly effective
and why?
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Stanza 1
I run just one ov my daddy's shops
from 9 o'clock to 9 o'clock
and he vunt me not to hav a break
but ven nobody in, I do di lock
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How is the father / son relationship represented in the first three lines of
the poem? What can we infer about the Indian work ethic?
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Stanza 2
cos up di stairs is my newly bride
vee share in chapatti
vee share in di chutney
after vee hav made luv
like vee rowing through Putney
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They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together.
Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul in two
bodies.
- Guru Amar Das.
This saying by Guru Amar Das summarises the philosophy behind Sikh
matrimony.
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Which two lines represent this philosophy? Which poetic technique has
Nagra used to establish it, and what is its effect?
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Stanza 3
Ven I return vid my pinnie untied
di shoppers always point and cry:
Hey Singh, ver yoo bin?
Yor lemons are limes
yor bananas are plantain,
dis dirty little floor need a little bit of mop
in di worst Indian shop
on di whole Indian road
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Why do you think Nagra uses Indian dialect and accent throughout the
poem, even when the voice is clearly that of a customer?
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Nagra refers to Singhs wife as netting two cat on her Sikh lover site?
Explain the pun.
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What does Singhs wife do and how may that differ from the traditional
Indian marriages?
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Considering what you may know about the Indian culture, how would
you describe Singhs wife? What do you think the Indian communitys
reaction to her might be?
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Stanza 9
Late in di midnight hour
ven yoo shoppers are wrap up quiet
ven di precinct is concrete-cool
vee cum down whispering stairs
and sit on my silver stool, from behind di chocolate
bars
vee stare past di half-price window signs
at di beaches ov di UK in di brightey moon
Name three poetic techniques used in this stanza. What are their effects?
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The Indian word for Britain is Blighty. Do you see any words that rhyme
with that word? Why do you think Nagra has done this?
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Comparing poems
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two poems.
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Planning an essay
Using MITSL as a guide, create an essay plan or spider diagram for your
essay question. You must include 3 - 5 points of comparison. Number each
point in the order you would write about them in your exam. When you write
your essay, remember to analyse structural and poetic devices for their
effect and meaning. Dont just list.
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Rhyme scheme
The poem is written almost entirely in rhyming couplets. The only
exceptions are:
the last four lines of the poem. (Though the last four lines do contain a
couplet, the regular pattern is broken.)
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What is the effect of the rhyme scheme changing at the end of the poem?
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There are two lines in the poem that begin with a single word followed by a full
stop. What are they, and what is the effect on the reader?
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Poetry detective
Poetic techniques and
devices
assonance
rhyme
onomatopoeia
modal verbs
repetition
use of personal
pronouns
Examples
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Comparing poems
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two poems.
medusa
Planning an essay
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Using MITSL as a guide, create an essay plan or spider diagram for your
essay question. You must include 3 - 5 points of comparison. Number each
point in the order you would write about them in your exam. When you write
your essay, remember to analyse structural and poetic devices for their
effect and meaning. Dont just list.
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castellated towers
the peacocks
performing seals
sailing-ships
monkey-men
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Device spotting
Examiners Hint
Technical terms, device spotting, counting lines and alphabetising rhyme
schemes are only of any use if they support your understanding of the
poems and the comparisons between them and you show this.
So, there is very little point in saying:
analyse and explain the use of any technical terms and poetic devices;
make comparisons.
Select one metaphor from the poem. Write your response to Molloys use
of the metaphor. Try to earn full marks.
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Poetry detectives
Make a note of examples (quotations) from the poem in the table below.
Examples
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