Different Cultures Poetry
• This Powerpoint will not
The Poems teach you the poems – that
At the core of this essay, you has already been done and
must compare and contrast
the uses of poetic devices, you should know them
their purposes and impacts,
in:
now.
• This presentation is to
War Photograph by Daniels
show you some of the
War Photographer by Duffy things to which you have
and if you can make at least not given enough – or any
occasional links to What were
they like? by Levertov, then
– consideration.
that can only help push up
your grade. • Your grade is at stake!
Assessment
You are being marked for
LITERATURE only.
Use the marking scheme to
guide you in the writing of the
essay, like a check list.
If your essay doesn’t have all
the points, we can’t give you
all the grades!
And please make reference to
NICK UT, the Vietnamese
photographer who took ‘the
photograph’.
A naked child is running
Aims along the path toward us,
her arms stretched out,
Form (shape, outward
her mouth open, appearance) in
the world turned to trash War Photograph
behind her.
You must emphasize how the She is running from the smoke
poets show perspectives and and the soldiers, from the bodies
the power of the photo in of her mother and little sister
thrown down into a ditch,
their poems through their from the blown-up bamboo hut
crafting of: from the melted pots and pans.
And she is also running from the gods
Form who have changed the sky to fire
and puddled the earth with skin and blood.
She is running--my god--to us,
Structure 10,000 miles away,
reading the caption
Language beneath her picture
in a weekly magazine.
All over the country
we're feeling sorry for her
The poets craft their work and being appalled at the war
being fought in the other world.
deliberately for an desired She keeps on running, you know,
impact; nothing is by chance. after the shutter of the camera
You must comment on the clicks. She's running to us.
For how can she know,
impact as you see it – it may her feet beating a path
not be quite what they had in on another continent? How can she know
mind, and that’s allowed! what we really are?
From the distance, we look
so terribly human.
A naked child is running
Structure along the path toward us,
her arms stretched out,
her mouth open,
the world turned to trash
behind her.
Read the text in the following
‘colour chunks’ I’ve devised. She is running from the smoke
and the soldiers, from the bodies
of her mother and little sister
thrown down into a ditch,
What does the writing in each from the blown-up bamboo hut
colour tell you about: from the melted pots and pans.
And she is also running from the gods
1. The power of the who have changed the sky to fire
and puddled the earth with skin and blood.
photograph? She is running--my god--to us,
10,000 miles away,
2. The perspectives involved reading the caption
in the poem? beneath her picture
in a weekly magazine.
3. The number of time All over the country
schemes in the poem? we're feeling sorry for her
and being appalled at the war
being fought in the other world.
She keeps on running, you know,
• What is Daniels trying to after the shutter of the camera
achieve by writing in these clicks. She's running to us.
For how can she know,
sections? her feet beating a path
on another continent? How can she know
• What happens if the order what we really are?
is re-arranged? From the distance, we look
so terribly human.
All over the country
Structure we're feeling sorry for her
and being appalled at the war
being fought in the other world.
A naked child is running
along the path toward us,
her arms stretched out,
This is an example of the her mouth open,
the world turned to trash
order re-arranged. behind her. She's running to us.
For how can she know,
her feet beating a path
When is ‘now’ in this version? on another continent? How can she know
what we really are?
What happens to the sense? She is running--my god--to us,
10,000 miles away,
What happens to the climax? reading the caption
beneath her picture
Where is the moral now? in a weekly magazine.
Who is the emphasis now on? And she is also running from the gods
who have changed the sky to fire
How has the power of the and puddled the earth with skin and blood.
From the distance, we look
photograph now been so terribly human.
emphasized? She is running from the smoke
and the soldiers, from the bodies
And how have the different of her mother and little sister
perspectives changed? thrown down into a ditch,
from the blown-up bamboo hut
from the melted pots and pans.
She keeps on running, you know,
after the shutter of the camera
clicks.
A naked child is running
Language along the path toward us,
her arms stretched out,
her mouth open,
the world turned to trash
behind her.
You need to be sensitive to
the deliberate use of language She is running from the smoke
and the soldiers, from the bodies
in the poems. of her mother and little sister
thrown down into a ditch,
from the blown-up bamboo hut
Look at the use, for example, from the melted pots and pans.
And she is also running from the gods
of verbs. who have changed the sky to fire
and puddled the earth with skin and blood.
What ‘type’ are they? She is running--my god--to us,
10,000 miles away,
Which are repeated? Why? reading the caption
Consequently, what impact do beneath her picture
in a weekly magazine.
they have on you? What do All over the country
you think Daniels wanted to we're feeling sorry for her
and being appalled at the war
achieve? being fought in the other world.
She keeps on running, you know,
after the shutter of the camera
You should do this for all your clicks. She's running to us.
For how can she know,
poems; compare their uses. her feet beating a path
on another continent? How can she know
And consider more than just what we really are?
verbs! From the distance, we look
so terribly human.
Remember to compare and contrast
War Photograph War Photographer
A naked child is running In his darkroom he is finally alone
along a path toward us, With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
her arms stretched out, The only light is red and softly glows,
her mouth open, as though this were a church and he
the world turned to trash A priest preparing to intone a Mass.
behind her.
What Were They Like?
1) Did the people of Viet Nam
use lanterns of stone?
2) Did they hold ceremonies
to reverence the opening of buds?
…
• http://www.canadianidentity.com/wiki/index.ph
Useful Links and p/Kim_Phuc about the life of Nick Ut, and his
award winning photo of ‘the girl.’
Bibliography • http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Daniels_Ka
Your essay must include some te_1953- on Daniels
appropriate, blended and
selective use of social- • An excellent Powerpoint on the Levertov poem
historical information to place that will give you all the information you’ll need,
the image, and the photo, in plus social-historical information!
context. www.riponcollege.co.uk/Content/1_documents/
eng%20revision%20materials
/What%20Were%20They%20Like.ppt
You should use such
information in your essay to
discuss the philosophical and • http://www.teachit.co.uk/attachments/1578.pdf
political significance of the for a simple help sheet on the Levertov poem
poems.
• Remember that Duffy is now the Poet Laureate
and you’ve seen her at “Poetry Live!”
DO NOT just cut and paste; http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/01
you must consider and apply /carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate1
your chosen information.