frog poem growing up

1) Warm thick slobber sounds like a childs description
2) This ugly image would be appealing for a child.
3) Onomatopoeia is used in the word slobber this means it is makes the same noise as it is describing.
4) Clotted water in the shade of the banks this is a simile because it uses like infront of it this is saying that it is simalare to it.
5) They are effective because it gives you a mental picture in youre head so you can follow the poem.

But best of all was the warm thick slobber

Of frogs porn that grew like clotted water

In the shade of the banks. Here, every spring

I would fill jampotfuls of the jellied

Specks to range on window-sills at home.

On shelves at school, and wait and watch until

The fattening dots burst into nimble.
Swimming tadpoles.
 

  

We know that this image was created by a nature lesson because at the start of the poem starts with Miss Walls. The first section of the poem is quite a friendly tone but the second half of the poem starts to get quite aggresive.

Festered, rotted, sweltered and punished are all negative words are telling you about bat things which happens rotting and punishment. Gargled is quite harsh but delicately softens the tone. Oxymoron is a figure of speech which contridicts what the writer has wrote. Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a thing is decribed as what it resembles.

storm on an island

Three keybn themes, natural power, fear and isolation, a mans relationship with nature

key tecnique
Blank vers no rhyme
Enjomberment
Caesura deliberate pause in the middle of the line
Assonance
Oxymorron
Metphors and simaleas

He repaeates we to make the poem comfort and to give a sense of togetherness of the poem.

The houses are built sqaute and they have realy thick walls so they are prepared for the storms.

Ther is an example of assonance in line two

The word wizend means shriveld and old but it can also mean wise and experienced

Nothing grows on the island

Ther is a sicsuora this is a deliberate breake in line one

Ther are breaks at the end of line 1 and 2. the rest of the poem uses enjomberment.

The first two lines have plenty of pauses in because they are preparing themselves for the storm thats coming. The rest of the poem talks about how the storm moves and changes. There are no stanzas in the poem because it is in the storm and cannot rest and pause

Line 6 to 10

Enjomberment in the first few line. Full blast this is unexpexted

Line 7 convesational tone (you know what i mean) It addresses the reader directly.


Line 10 the wind is personified because the wind cant pummel . It is given human characteristics.

Line 11

Storm on the island

follower by Seamus Heaney

1)

A) His shoulders globed like a full sail strung = This shows that his father has bean working hard all day and his shoulders are so strong but stiff strung so tiitly so tired.

B) The horse is strained at his clicking tongue = The horse is exausted at his comands constantly his father hounds it to do more jobs for him.

C) With a single pluck/Of reins, the sweating team turned round = This shows how hard his father and his horse has bean working as a team.

D) Dipping and rising to his plod = This shows that the horse is in harmany with his father.  

2)

A) I stumbled in his hob nailed wake = This shows that heaney is young weak and tired and struggling to keep up with his father. This also shows that he wants to walk in his fathers footsteps.

B) I was a nuisance, Tripping, falling / yapping always = This shows that he wants to learn what to do when it says yapping always, this also shows that he is tired and tring to get better.

3) The young Heaney remineds me off a babby elephant because it is constantly following its parents always on the move always in it shadow the father always helping it along.

Seamus heaney - digging

1)At the start of the poem the writer is looking down from his window watching his father digging.

2)The sieght of his father digging in the lower bed remineds him of his for fathers digging for potatoes.

3)He ascoiciates his grandfather with digging.

4)The memory holds his him bringing his grandfather a bottle of milk whilst he was digging.

5)The skills the wrier uses are similies when he compares his pen to spades and to a gun. He speads up and slows down tempo. At the start he uses riming skiems such as thumb gun, sound ground.

A) This poem is about how his gradfathers used to dig for potatos before the poataoe famen. 
B) The words that strike me most were digging pens and gun.
C) Heaney is different from his fathers becausehe writes instead of digging.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIzJgbNANzk