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		<title>GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry : How to analyse a poem- Carol Ann Duffy &#8216;A Child&#8217;s Sleep&#8217;-BE CURIOUS!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Lewison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I stood at the edge of my child’s sleep hearing her breathe; although I could not enter there, I could not leave. Her sleep was a small wood, perfumed with flowers; dark, peaceful, sacred, acred in hours. And she was the spirit that lives in the heart of such woods; without time, without history, wordlessly good. I spoke her name, a pebble dropped in the still night, and saw her stir, both open palms cupping their soft light; then went to the window. The greater dark outside the room gazed back, maternal, wise, with its face of moon. A few more days to GCSE English and you may be looking for an easy way TO ANALYSE THE UNSEEN POEM? &#8230;even if you feel very confident about poetry analysis, there is always the sense of the BLIND DATE with the unseen. So now I will show you an easy tip that works with students very effectively. (First just mentioning my own enjoyment of this poem. &#8230;..as a short digression?)   I explored Carol Ann Duffy&#8217;s A Child&#8217;s Sleep several years ago on this blog and loved its hypnotic, magical language that manages to expand our understanding of a most tender moment. A moment in time! Duffy is very fond of this poem and I can see why. It captures a mother&#8217;s almost mystical  awareness of the wonder of loving your child. It takes place on a threshold. in a literal sense we are behind the mother gazing into his child&#8217;s room watching the child sleep and imagining the wonderful dreams that the child might be enjoying. Metaphorically we recognize that the mother as an adult is for ever excluded by her age and experience from childhood&#8217;s innocence and the sleep of the child seems a metaphor for this lost magical world. In a sense the mother is gazing upon her lost self too and that is why the ending of the poem offers relief to the mother as she too is cared for by something much older and wiser than herself: the moon! How to analyse the Unseen Poem: A Beginning.  Read the title of the poem and then the first line.  What do you NOTICE? &#8216;I stood at the edge of my child&#8217;s sleep hearing her breathe..&#8217;  Ask yourself what you are noticing? Simplicity. Soft sounds. Like sleep? Vowels soft? assonance. Whisper as mother listens?  Title is clear and the opening line confirms what the title promise. So reader feels the poem is fulfilling its promise straight away. Yet what word seems to leap out or seem &#8216;strange&#8216; in the opening line?  The word &#8216;edge&#8217; seems strange. Makes us think about the connotations of the &#8216;edge of my child&#8217;s sleep&#8217; in terms of adulthood/childhood. Shows respect. Awe at the wonder of being a mother? Threshold between worlds of dream/innocence and daily ordinary world. Maybe the child very active and sleep a rest for all. But told in wondering, awestruck way. Even magical as mother is transfixed. And this enchantment inspires the poem and makes the poet reflect on the wonder of dreams, and where a child may escape to, and then in gazing out beyond the room&#8217;s tranquility and special space  reflects on her own place in the universe and being part of a universal order and scheme of things. So the gazer becomes the gazed upon and we as readers are gazing upon everyone?  See how just ONE question leads to a very expansive understanding of the whole poem?   A perfect poem.    This was my old reading of the poem ..may be of interest along the way too?    Without sounding trite and then perhaps I do, the poem reminds me of that song by some chap with a difficult name to spell: ‘Where do you go to my lovely..’ with the vaguely Parisian music which was once a massive hit on Radio 1. Captures the heart stopping wonderment of the mother’s relation to her child. The ‘awayness ‘ of sleep all the more enchanting for its uncomplexity and naturalness than the more ‘thorny’ aspects of adult slumber. I love the delicacy of this poem: ‘ I stood at the edge of my child’s sleep’..as the adult hangs back from the perfection of this tableau…as if the sleep has become a whole world whose words are so very different from those of the adult. The poet who is also a mother elides the sleep with some Shakeperean Arden where magical things happen and time becoems something fluid, tender, mystical. Lovely detail with the hands embracing light. Defencless purity of their transcenedent beauty. ]]></description>
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		<title>Blake&#8217;s &#8216;London&#8217; and Emily Bronte&#8217;s &#8216;Spellbound&#8217;: Analysis and conversation extract.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Lewison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carole Berry and Janet Lewison Tusitala Conversation (extract)  Janet Both poems significantly give representation to  intensely realized  spaces/places where human beings  are imprisoned  or enslaved by nature, society and even or especially the mind. Little wonder that one of Blake&#8217;s most famous lines in London refers to &#8216;mind forg&#8217;d manacles&#8216;  &#8217; These manacles are the effect of social pressures and brought about by oppressive institutions and environments. Such a phrase captures the terrible internal workings and psychology of those people observed by Blake in the poem. Whilst we do not feel the &#8216;manacles&#8217; are of  the same origin in Spellbound, we do feel that in this poem too, the poet feels that her circumstances have inflicted some unnerving type of control upon her. The poet is bewitched or enslaved by her environment and as in London , whilst the emotions created are difficult, the creative act itself seems inspired. Such is the ambivalence of place in these two poems! The poems are  both intense, psychological dramas of the mind and senses using &#8216;place&#8217; as an inspiration or trigger for reflective  thought. We gain insights into the psychological drama of the individual speakers through their readings of place. The extremity of the situations under scrutiny in both poems encourages the speakers to reflect upon their relationship to the spaces they inhabit, however temporarily. The creative act is thus triggered by external &#8216;prompts&#8217; that become the sources of their writing. &#160; I suppose the creative act has to be provoked by something and intense confrontations with a storm or a corrupt city seem very probable sources! We do find a strong sense of emotional turbulence or turmoil in both poems. I suppose that is why I think the poems are emotionally authentic. In  Emily Bronte&#8217;s poem Spellbound we  find that  the speaker  is in thrall to nature&#8217;s natural predilection  for  violence. By contrast,  in Blake&#8217;s London we find the  poet  is  lucky enough to enjoy the freedom  to &#8216;wander&#8217;  and that his  living state is very different from  the  terrible  conditions endured  by his fellow human  beings in this  sprawling,  imprisoning city  where he observes :&#8217;in every face I  meet/Marks of weakness, marks of woe.&#8217;    Religion has abandoned  these people leaving only the  ironic  &#8216;stigmata&#8217; of  disease, starvation  and suffering. No one  except the  observing poet  seems  able to quit this place , and interestingly  Bronte&#8217;s  poem is  preoccupied with not being  able  to leave; &#8216;And  I cannot, cannot  go...&#8217; and we puzzle  as to why and  how much choice is involved and indeed  if the  &#8216;Spellbound&#8216;  aspect of  the not leaving and being held in thrall,  inspires  ironic pleasure  too. What do you feel  about  the representation of place in each  poem Carole? Where would  you rather  be?   Carole From  an  observational point of view, i would prefer Blake&#8217;s London  and indeed, as  you  point out, the poet is free to wander and  observe and &#8216;report&#8217;  in poetry his  fellow Londoners&#8217;  suffering and enslavement., their  lack of  liberty&#8217; &#8211; even  the streets are owned &#8216;chartered&#8217;&#8230;.this is such an unsettling and revealing word.   Janet Yes, the word &#8216;chartr&#8217;d&#8217; is  very  revealing. It resonates with me as suggests everything  is owned and  even geography become a commodity. London  relentless for its  accumulations of horror. Definitely  social  commentary but as you  say, the poet can turn  around and leave. He is a  missionary? Anticipating Dickens?  Spellbound seems odd and I am not sure how pleasurable and  exciting the poet finds the whole business of enslavement.  How  many songs and poems explore the enchantment of love in  this  way?   Carole Blake as  a missionary highlights the sense of  historical &#8216;place&#8217;, it&#8217;s past but also  it&#8217;s possible future if  things don&#8217;t change. He hints at more &#8216;blood&#8217; and &#8216;the  marriage  hearse&#8217; (church and state).  &#8216;ancestral voices prophesying  war&#8217;  &#8211; the people of London may rise up against their masters as  did the people of  Paris! The tone is much more vehement at the end  of the poem?   Janet Yes it is about the future too and as  you say we can detect Kubla  Khan too about the poem&#8217;s heart. The  ending of London deeply  disturbing. Sex kills seems to be the  message. Horrible oxymoron &#8216;marriage  hearse&#8217;, worthy of an arch  pessimist like George Gissing though latter later. Do you think Bronte  too has a missionary zeal but her zeal is all about rebellion and  transgression? Bronte invents herself as a poet(not unlike the  female in Kubla Khan) perhaps in Spellbound through a language  which unsettles as it won&#8217;t rest?    Carole The spirit won&#8217;t be laid to rest in Spellbound. She is both &#8216;eternal &#8217;like the rocks..&#8217; and eternity herself? She is the place too of course&#8230; Janet So she is the place. I like that. It resonates somehow. Hence the poem shapes itself around her. The wandering poet is very different in London  as he doesn&#8217;t want to absorb the taint of degradation but it haunts his mind, his very sensibility. Carole Do think there is an echo of Wuthering Heights  in Spellbound and  yes the to Kubla Khan too. Remember the &#8216;woman wailing &#8230;&#8217;. The simplistic verse reveals and recalls so much! The reader is  also bound by the poem&#8217;s spell. Interesting how Kubla Khan is a tangible  element in both poems. That too, is a poem about enslavement and powerlessness. Blake&#8217;s &#8216;harlot&#8217; and Coleridge&#8217;s cloying &#8216;woman wailing&#8216;. But now moving onto different aspects. I have digressed somewhat. Place is the thing!   Janet But &#8216;place&#8217; is psychological too and I doubt very much we could pinpoint where Spellbound takes place? It seems more a mental &#8216;place&#8217; or &#8216;space&#8217;  at times? Perhaps that is what unites both poems? The poets move between  inside states and those places outside&#8230;through the triggers of language and  the resonance of sensory impressions? It is the very compression of the language in both poems that haunts?  High degree of selectivity as poems reveal the places where feelings become paramount? Carole In Bronte&#8217;s poem it is indeed, a mental place but inspired by a  beloved physical landscape. Bronte&#8217;s is arguablly a landscape of the mind,  from which, she cannot physically escape, cannot leave &#8216;still I cannot go&#8216;. However,interestingly, one also feels that Blake cannot leave the physical  world of his &#8216;London&#8216; and the &#8216;marks of &#8216;weakness/marks of woe&#8217; are what he  also bears in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carol Ann Duffy, Owen Sheers, Robert Browning, Shakespeare, Tennyson and Mimi Khalvati! : Analysed in Ebook Conversations!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you sometimes find TALKING about texts better than writing about them? Imagine being able to listen into a lively and original conversation about books or poems you need to write about. IMAGINE  how easy it would be for you  to find lots of ideas and insights&#8230;. Tusitala Conversations will give you the opportunity  to find LOTS of ORIGINAL ideas for your writing so you will gain BETTER grades. I do enjoy discussing poems and other texts with students, friends and colleagues- it&#8217;s one of my favourite ways of finding out how a text works! Conversations are also more freewheeling than the traditional learning notes and I would like you to imagine these e-books as being like  your own personal tutorials! At a bargain price!   &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Under Milk Wood Complete</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 09:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 09:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 09:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tusi Notes: Shelley’s Ozymandias and Browning’s My last Duchess</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 08:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>English Revision Bolton and Manchester: Carol Ann Duffy FREE Video-15 ideas to boost your essays !</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Lewison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carol Ann Duffy&#8217;s poetry deals with many different relationships, events and predicaments  She is a time traveller fond of exploring the lost narratives of the past through a range of speakers and characters.  If you are working on your revision ideas for GCSE English or perhaps GCE English Literature or even if you are an undergraduate student preparing for your examinations, then these following ideas in the video may help you . Carol Ann Duffy is fascinated by intimacy in all its challenging manifestations and these 15 ideas may boost your own thoughts about Duffy&#8217;s primary creative compulsion!]]></description>
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		<title>Carol Ann Duffy&#8217;s Medusa, Before You Were Mine and Havisham on FREE VIDEO, Ebook and Kindle! NEW!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Lewison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are probably in the middle of your English REVISION and are looking for QUICK  and POWERFUL ways to improve the range of ideas you have for your final examinations.  Do you want a fast and easy way to get better grades?  Look at this video and see how quickly your ideas can get a FREE BOOST!!!  AND if you like this boost, then why not buy the ebooks too?  They are a great way to TURBO charge your examination ideas! ]]></description>
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		<title>Steinbeck&#8217;s Of Mice and Men:Analysis of the last Chapter with FREE VIDEO!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last chapter of Steinbeck&#8217;s Of Mice and Men resolves the death of Curley&#8217;s wife through George&#8217;s humane killing of Lennie.  George&#8217;s action protects Lennie from Curley&#8217;s pursuing vengeance-most likely involving torture and leaves George to find a new life without his role as Lennie&#8217;s protector and surrogate father. Steinbeck&#8217;s narrative reveals the insensitivity of George&#8217;s work mates with the notable exception of Slim. Indeed without Slim&#8217;s offer of friendship and his intelligent, yet instinctive understanding  of George&#8217;s situation, the novel would close in a very lonely and even despairing way. Yet Slim&#8217;s humanity gives George and the reader hope of a more equal and fertile friendship; a friendship that opens up the ending of the novel to new horizons and possibilities for both Slim and George. This short video shows how just THREE quotations from the last stages of the novel, can provide you with a very detailed  and helpful analysis of the novel and its searing issues about tolerance, friendship and hope. For a video about essay writing,please click here. For  another about  about To Kill a Mocking Bird, please click here and for a video about The Woman In Black click here!  &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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