to select important key messages from a poem; to think about the tone and mood of a poem What I will learn:
5 MIN
Working in pairs, write a definition for the word ‘nature’. Compare your answers with another group, and then share your answer with the class and try to come to an agreed class definition.
POET PROFILE Name: W. B. Yeats (1865–1939)
Nationality: Irish (born in Dublin but grew up in Sligo) Fact:
Yeats was buried in France. It was only after World War II that his remains were reinterred in Drumcliffe Cemetery, Sligo, with the epitaph, ‘Cast a cold eye/ On life, on death./ Horseman pass by’.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
linnet: a small bird
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
