Imagine you were giving a reading of the poem, ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’. Practise saying it aloud with another student, thinking about which words you would emphasise. Try to learn as much of it as possible by testing one another.
Think about a place that makes you feel calm and at peace. Describe it to another student without telling them what kind of place it is. See if they can guess where it is, based on your description.
POET BIOGRAPHY
Earlier in the collection you read a poem called ‘Timothy Winters’ (p. 275). This was written by Charles Causley, a British poet who was born in 1917, during World War I. He spent most of his life living in Cornwall with his mother after his father died from injuries sustained in the war.
This poem by Causley is very different to ‘Timothy Winters’. READ
I am the song by Charles Causley
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I am the song that sings the bird. I am the leaf that grows the land. I am the tide that moves the moon. I am the stream that halts the sand. I am the cloud that drives the storm. I am the earth that lights the sun. I am the fire that strikes the stone. I am the clay that shapes the hand. I am the word that speaks the man.
