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Budapest - 'Billy Collins'

A hand grasps an old fashioned pen.  They type with a sharp nib for dipping into an ink pen.  The pen has a mind of its own, scrawling across the page and spewing forth scribbled animals. It scribbles in desultory fashion, page after page, the passage of time denoted by a change of arm from green sweater to plaid shirt. The pen also acquires a mind of its own, requiring a little firm handling. Insects crawl from the nib, a bird drinks from the puddled ink.

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My pen moves along the page
like the snout of some strange animal - This poem lends itself perfectly to the teaching of personification of objects.



The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe (KS2)

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 I love to use 'The Raven' as the poem for my narrative poetry units as an alternative or addition to 'The Highwayman'

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this, and nothing more."

The children can investigate the vocabulary of mood; weak, weary, quaint, dreary, bleak and dreary.   How this vocabulary can effect the mood of the poem - experiment with mood words.



The children enjoy making predictions about Lenore - Who she is and why she is knocking - they often suggest that she was a maid who loved her master; the subjects murdered wife; the ghost of a childhood sweetheart etc

Investigate the lines that rhyme such as:

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, 

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain, 

Use these lines as a template for the children to write their own narrative verses

The Jabberwocky


Stream School an animated Hungarian poem.

Streamschool is really charming with beautiful design and animation by Péter Vácz. I particularly liked the water effects. A little girl has an adventure with water as she travels from a small brook to the sea. A tale of growing up based on a Hungarian poem.
Use this poem to discuss personification.

Beautiful lines such as; 'the mountain talks, the valley chatters the sky listens staying silent.'

Let children make up their own personification poems using landscape pictures.

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