Starter quiz
- Words such as “lone” and “undisturbed” suggest ...
- isolation. ✓
- belonging.
- beauty.
- destruction.
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- A tourist is someone who ...
- travels for business.
- travels for pleasure. ✓
- considers somewhere home.
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- Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns is called ...
- 'climate change' ✓
- Saying that something is ‘like’ something else is a ....
- 'simile' ✓
- To receive money, property or possessions from someone after the person has died is to ______ from them.
- 'inherit' ✓
- Using the pronoun ‘our’ implies ...
- shared responsibility. ✓
- a shift in responsibility.
- individual responsibility.
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Exit quiz
- A woman who inherits considerable wealth is called an ...
- 'heiress' ✓
- The first two lines of Nichols’ ‘Like an Heiress’ suggest ...
- the beauty and value of the natural world. ✓
- humanity’s destruction of the natural world.
- the speaker’s sense of isolation.
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- ‘Small-days’ is a Guyanese folk song. This is significant to the poem 'Like an Heiress' because ...
- it links to Nichols’ personal context. ✓
- it suggests a harmony and musicality to nature.
- it suggests that nature inspires creativity in the speaker.
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- The speaker stays in a ______ in the poem 'Like an Heiress'.
- 'hotel' ✓
- In 'Like an Heiress', the use of “lone” is significant because ...
- it could reflect the lack of animals and plant life. ✓
- it could reflect the isolation of the speaker. ✓
- it could reflect the peace of the speaker.
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- Nichols’ personal context connects to the idea of a ‘tourist’ in 'Like an Heiress' and hints at ...
- fears around inequality in education.
- fears around impact of tourism on local culture.
- fears around migrant identities. ✓
- fears around the disconnection between humanity and nature.
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Key learning points
- Comparing the speaker to an “heiress” could imply that they are set to inherit the value of the natural world.
- However, imagery associated with the natural world is that of destruction which could show the damage humanity has done.
- Comparison to “tourist” could connect to how humanity exploits the natural world.
- On the other hand, “tourist” could link to how the speaker feels disconnected from their home and heritage.
Common misconception
That a poem has only one meaning.
A poem can have many different meanings woven together because we are all made up of different ideas and our views on the world are rarely singular.
Keywords
Heiress - a woman who inherits considerable wealth
Inherit - to receive money, property, or possessions from someone after the person has died
'small-days' - a Guyanese folk song
Tourist - a person who is travelling or visiting a place for pleasure
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