Mean Time
By Carol Ann Duffy
Carol
Ann
Duffy
“I like to think that
I'm a sort of poet for
our times.”
“I’m not dealing with
facts, I’m dealing
with emotion.”
Mean Time
Poet Laureate
Childhood, Adulthood,
Love
Andrew Motion
300 years
Simon Artmitage
Personal
Connection
Adrian Henri
Jackie Kay
Reading of the
Poem
Practices linked to Reading a
Poem for the first time:
Mnemonic
for NSTTF
Never Still,
The Time
Flies
1. Number lines & stanzas
2. Structure and Form
3. Reading
4. Themes Theme Development
5. Thoughts on the Title
6. First Impressions
Connections
How might an overarching theme
or idea connect a literary text to
a non-literary text?
Persistence of Memory
by Salvador Dali 1931
Oil on Canvas
24.1 x 33cm
Clocks
by Ross Muir 2021
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
The Two Fridas
by Frida Kahlo 1926
Oil on Canvas
173.5 cm × 173 cm
poeiesis to Create
Poems as
vessels of
communication
on what it
means to be
human.
A Break Up
What comes to mind when you think of a
break up or a loss of connection between
people?
Break Up
Analysis
Mean Time
by Carol Ann Duffy Mean Time Collection 1993
The clocks slid back an hour
and stole light from my life
as I walked through the wrong part of town,
mourning our love.
And, of course, unmendable rain
fell to the bleak streets
where I felt my heart gnaw
at all our mistakes.
If the darkening sky could lift
more than one hour from this day
there are words I would never have said
nor have heard you say.
But we will be dead, as we know,
beyond all light.
These are the shortened days
and the endless nights
Prompt
Power
Polysemic
Tone
Personification
Form
Enjambments and
Caesuras
Structure
Stanzaic Progression
The Individual
Oral
Assessment
Topics Covered
15-Minute Oral Exam
10 minutes of a Student Analysis
5 minutes of a Teacher-Student
discussion
English Language and Literature:
Analysis of a literary text and a
non-literary text.
Comparisons are not a requirement.
Global Areas
IO Prompt: Examine the ways in which the global issue of
your choice is presented through the content and form of
one of the works and one of the texts that you have
studied.
Culture, identity
and community
Beliefs, values and
education
Politics, power and
justice
Art, creativity and
the imagination
Family, gender,
sexuality, migration,
colonialism,
nationalism.
Beliefs and values in
societies and
individuals,
communities,
education systems,
conflicts of beliefs,
values and ethics.
Government structures,
power, deistribution of
wealth, resources,
equality and
inequality, human
right, peace and
conflict, limitations of
justice and the law.
Aesthetics, inspiration,
creation ,craft, beauty, Relationship between
shaping and
humans and the
challenging
environment,
perceptions through
implications of
art, effects of art on
technology and media,
society.
scientific development
and progress.
Science, technology
and the
environment
Narrowing down a
Global Issue
significant, transnational, relevant to local contexts
Extracting a Global Issue from a Global Area
MiniIndividual
Oral Practice
1 Minute individual
Presentation
Introduce the global area and
narrow it down to a global
issue, use either “Mean Time”,
“Little Red Cap” or “Education
for Leisure” and the relevant
body of work to make a clear
distinct connection to the
poem, cite at least one piece of
evidence mentioning the
literary device being used to
convey the global issue.
Central Theme
Choose 1 of the 5
global areas as your
central theme.
Connect it to the
Poem
Briefly elaborate on
what you want to
discuss.
Brain Break
“Taking a break can lead to breakthroughs.”
Thank
you!
Dr Seuss
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