Starter: Remind yourselves of these literary terms:
SIMILE
PERSONIFICATION
Interrogative Sentence
METAPHOR
Declarative Sentence
Text 1 – The Butcher’s Shop
Lesson Objective:
To show understanding of the poem
and the attitudes it conveys
NEW WORDS ALERT!!!
• INTERTEXTUALITY– when a writer makes clear
reference to a different, familiar text in their
writing.
• JUXTAPOSITION – different ideas placed
together for effect
What is the attitude of the poet towards the
food that she sees?
The pigs are strung in rows, open-mouthed,
dignified in martyrs‚ deaths. They hang
stiff as Sunday manners, their porky heads
voting Tory all their lives, their blue rosettes
discarded now. The butcher smiles a meaty smile,
white apron stained with who knows what,
fingers fat as sausages. Smug, woolly cattle
and snowy sheep prance on tiles, grazing
on eternity, cute illustrations in a children's book.
What does the sheep say now?
Its baas are silenced. There's sawdust underfoot
and trays of meat with little plastic hedges,
playing farms. All the way home
your cold and soggy paper parcel bleeds.
What is the attitude of the poet towards the
food that she sees?
This simile
represents the
idea that…..
The pigs are strung in rows, open-mouthed,
The effect of
dignified in martyrs‚ deaths. They hang
this simile is …
stiff as Sunday manners, their porky heads
voting Tory all their lives, their blue rosettes
discarded now. The butcher smiles a meaty smile,
white apron stained with who knows what,
fingers fat as sausages. Smug, woolly cattle
and snowy sheep prance on tiles, grazing
on eternity, cute illustrations in a children's book.
What does the sheep say now?
Its baas are silenced. There's sawdust underfoot
and trays of meat with little plastic hedges,
playing farms. All the way home
your cold and soggy paper parcel bleeds.
What is the attitude of the poet towards the
food that she sees?
The effect of
the verb
‘silenced’ is …
The pigs are strung in rows, open-mouthed,
dignified in martyrs‚ deaths. They hang
stiff as Sunday manners, their porky heads
voting Tory all their lives, their blue rosettes
discarded now. The butcher smiles a meaty smile,
white apron stained with who knows what,
fingers fat as sausages. Smug, woolly cattle
and snowy sheep prance on tiles, grazing
on eternity, cute illustrations in a children's book.
What does the sheep say now?
Its baas are silenced. There's sawdust underfoot
and trays of meat with little plastic hedges,
playing farms. All the way home
your cold and soggy paper parcel bleeds.
This
interrogative
sentence
suggests….
Answers in full sentences please
1. On your poem identify all the VERBS and
then answer the following question: What
does the writer’s choice of verbs tell the
reader about her feelings and attitudes
towards the meat?
2. The poem ends with the line ‘All the way
home/ your cold and soggy paper parcel
bleeds’ – what is the effect of this final line?