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Shooting Stars Carol Anne Duffy. We are learning to:. Identify and annotate the use of poetic techniques. To be a successful learner: I must be able to identify poetic techniques within Shooting Stars. Group Analysis – 12 minutes. You are going to be given some stanzas to focus on.
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Shooting Stars Carol Anne Duffy
We are learning to: • Identify and annotate the use of poetic techniques. • To be a successful learner: • I must be able to identify poetic techniques within Shooting Stars.
Group Analysis – 12 minutes • You are going to be given some stanzas to focus on. • In your groups, using the help-sheet provided, highlight any aspects of: • Any techniques used: similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, sentence structure etc • Any images that are created • How characters are described • How you feel about the content of this stanza
Stanza 1 • After I no longer speak they break our fingersto salvage my wedding ring. Rebecca Rachel RuthAaron Emmanuel David, stars on all our browsBeneath the gaze of men with guns. Mourn for our daughters,
Stanza 2 • upright as statues, brave. You would not look at me.You waited for the bullet. Fell. I say, Remember.Remember those appalling days which make the worldforever bad. One saw I was alive. Loosened
Stanza 3 • his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separatethis from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear. Between the gap of corpses I could see a child. The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye. This woman’s observation that ‘Only a matter of days separate/ this from acts of torture now’ suggests both eyewitness involvement at this time –‘this’ and ‘now’ reinforce the sense of immediacy – and an awareness that memory is very short in historical terms.
Stanza 4 • How would you prepare to die, on a perfect April eveningwith young men gossiping and smoking by the graves?My bare feet felt the earth and urine trickleddown my legs. I heard the click. Not yet. A trick.
Stanza 5 • After immense suffering someone takes tea on the lawn.After the terrible moans a boy washes his uniform.After the history lesson children run to their toys the worldturns in its sleep the spades shovel soil Sara Ezra…
Stanza 6 • Sister, if seas part us, do you not consider me?Tell them I sang the ancient psalms at duskinside the wire and strong men wept. Turn theeunto me with mercy, for I am desolate and lost.
