Learning Intentions In this section you will ... ✓ Read a poem for enjoyment and appreciation and respond using appropriate vocabulary.
Before Reading
Working with a partner, list three ways in which your life is made better and three ways in which your life is made worse by your use of a mobile phone.
Reading
The following poem by Carol Ann Duffy, a Scottish poet of Irish descent, is from her award-winning collection, Rapture. Over the course of the book of poetry, Duffy tells the story of a romantic relationship. Read the poem in order to answer the question: What’s the poem about?
Text by Carol Ann Duffy
I tend the mobile now like an injured bird.
We text, text, text our significant words.
I re-read your first, your second, your third,
look for your small xx, feeling absurd.
The codes we send arrive with a broken chord.
I try to picture your hands, their image is blurred.
Nothing my thumbs press will ever be heard.
86 Vocabulary
absurd: (adj.) ridiculous chord: (noun) a number of musical notes played at the same time
