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In this unit you will study poems by Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Christina Rossetti.

Pre-Raphaelite Paintings Porphyria's Lover
read creative responses
The Sisters 
see story boards
Mariana
read creative responses
My Last Duchess
read creative responses
Goblin Market activities 
read: Christina's "Dear Little Children",
  Martha's "Forlorns"
links  to poem
  illustrations

Advice on using quotations

Essay planning

Task list - creative tasks and essays  

Guidance and Essay plan for: Compare and contrast “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”

See redrafted extracts from essays on Mariana

Speaking and Listening

1) You will discuss aspects of Victorian society, art and culture

2) You will read the poems aloud and perform dramatic interpretations

Reading

3) You will study the poems and develop an understanding of the effects writers create through their use of language and poetic forms.

4) You will research and read about poets’ lives.  

Writing

5) You will write:  

creative responses to a painting and one of the poems

an analytical essay on one or more of the poems  

a web page exploration of one or more poem  

Some Key terms and concepts: dramatic monologue    emotive language     stanza    symbolism   rhyme   rhyming couplets   onomatopoeia         allusion   oxymoron   pathetic fallacy       metaphor    simile     rhythm   hyperbole      setting & atmosphere     alliteration, sibilance, assonance & consonance    personification   enjambment    repetition

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