A In your copy, go investigate. 1. To what animal is the poet comparing hope? 2. Where does the bird perch? Why do you think it perches there? 3. How does the bird convey its message of hope? 4. What kind of song does the bird sing? 5. What does the poet say could ‘abash the little bird’? 6. Where has the author ‘heard’ the bird?
B In your copy, give your opinion.
Top tip!
A metaphor describes something by comparing it to something else.
1. Do you think this is a good metaphor? Why? 2. Can you think of another animal you would compare hope to? 3. Why do you think the poet says ‘and never stops at all’ in stanza one? 4. What does the poet mean by ‘that kept so many warm’ in stanza two? 5. Do you like this poem? Why/Why not? 6. Draw a picture of a bird that represents hope to you.
C Vocabulary
1. Write a list of vocabulary that you would associate with birds. Use nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
feathers flap
graceful
2. The rhyming words in this poem aren’t always obvious, e.g. ‘words’, ‘heard’ and ‘bird’. In your copy, find pairs or groups of rhyming words in the poem and add your own words to the list, e.g. ‘words’, ‘heard’, ‘bird’, ‘shared’, ‘paired’.
D Cloze procedure: ‘Emily Dickinson’. Fill in the blanks. Emily
was an American poet. She was in 1830 and lived there all her Emily
. Emily had a younger sister, Lavinia, and an also a quiet woman and didn’t have
in Massachusetts
. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was a quiet brother, Austin.
friends. Altogether, she nearly 1,800 poems, but less than a dozen of these were published while she was of the greatest American . .
Although she was unpopular during her lifetime for breaking the conventional rules of poetry, she is now considered to be
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