Starter quiz
- What is a metaphor?
- a comparison saying something is like something else
- a comparison saying something is something else ✓
- giving human characteristics to non-human things
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- Match the key term relating to poetry with their definition.
- language⇔use of words, phrases or linguistic devices. ✓
- form⇔specific type of poem. ✓
- structure⇔the way the poem is organised on the page. ✓
- A person who moves from one place to another is a...
- resident
- migrant ✓
- native
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- What is a free verse poem?
- a poem with no obvious pattern ✓
- a poem with a strict pattern
- a poem with a regular metre but no rhyme
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- The attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal, or object is...
- anthropomorphism ✓
- anthropology
- zoomorphism
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- The process of one country taking over another and exploiting it economically is called...
- 'colonialism' ✓
Exit quiz
- An irregular structure in a poem might represent feelings of...
- contentment
- worry ✓
- confident
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- The repetition of words or phrases in the first part of successive clauses is...
- enjambment
- caesuras
- anaphora ✓
- analogue
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- The return of someone to their own country is called...
- 'repatriation' ✓
- Which quotation from khan's 'pot' could link to ideas of migrant identities?
- 'I am pot' ✓
- 'shatter this glass'
- 'pot?'
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- Feeling displaced means...
- feeling at home
- feeling out of place ✓
- feeling worried
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- A population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin is a...
- 'diaspora' ✓
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Key learning points
- The speaker anthropomorphises the pot which creates an emotional connection to the reader.
- The poem arguably metaphorically considers the fears around identity of those with a migrant heritage.
- The irregular, fragmented structure of the poem could link to the pot’s feelings of displacement.
- khan arguably links the poem to colonial narratives of ignoring indigenous stories.
Common misconception
That analysing a poem's structure is boring and intimidating.
One way of looking at structure might be to imagine it as a heartbeat - why does the poem 'beat' regularly or irregularly? What emotion might that signify?
Keywords
Migrant - a person who moves from one place to another
Displacement - the feeling of being out of place
Colonialism - the process of one country taking over another and exploiting it economically
Repatriation - the return of someone to their own country
Diaspora - a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin
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