Describe this image using: An interrogative sentence; A simile; A metaphor; An adverb sentence starter; A syndetic pair; Contrasting adjectives.

Spellbound Emily Bronte

Today’s lesson: We are learning to ANALYSE the presentation of nature in Bronte’s poem Spellbound. We are also learning to COMPARE and CONTRAST the presentation of nature in an UNSEEN extract.

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) was the middle sister of the three most famous sisters in the history of English Literature. (Her oldest sister was called Charlotte; Anne was the youngest; and she had a brother called Branwell). All of them died tragically young. Charlotte discovered Emily's talent for writing poetry and the three sisters published a collection of poems under the pseudonyms Ellis, Currer and Acton Bell (each sister kept their own initial). They did this to avoid suffering the prejudice against women writers typical of the time. Emily is best known for her novel, Wuthering Heights. The setting for this novel was the bleak and harsh Yorkshire Moors which she knew very well. Emily was born and bred and lived for most of her short life in Haworth, Yorkshire, where there is now a museum about the family. She caught a cold while attending the funeral of her brother and it developed into tuberculosis, from which she died, six days before Christmas Day in 1848.

Gondal is an imaginary world created by Emily and her siblings where their imaginations could run riot. In this world, heroes and heroines fought great battles and were involved in epic, romantic situations. It is thought that Spellbound, written in November 1837 when Emily was 19, is set in Gondal, even though the setting seems very much like the bleak Yorkshire Moors in which Emily lived. It has been suggested that the poem describes an incident in which one of their imaginary heroines has to leave her child to die on the mountains in winter. The heroine can neither watch nor leave: she is spellbound by her circumstances.

Form and structure: 3, 4 lines stanzas (quatrains) Simple rhyme scheme Metre? Grammar and syntax: What type of sentence mood? Syntax? Foregrounding… Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: Lexis and imagery: Imagery? Phonology: Alliteration? Assonance?

Form and structure: Internal rhyme? Rhyme scheme? Grammar and syntax: Parallelism? Foregrounding? Inverted syntax? Lexis and imagery: PMA? Phonology: Alliteration? Consonance?

Form and structure: Juxtaposition? Caesura? OVERALL – effect of metre? OVERALL – effect of rhyme scheme? Grammar and syntax: Parallelism? Sentence mood? OVERALL – how is the poem put together? What effects are being created? Lexis and imagery: OVERALL - lexical field? Phonology: Alliteration? OVERALL – how does the poem sound?

Compare and contrast the poem with an unseen text.

Support However In contrast to Likewise Similarly Dissimilarly Form and structure: The use of the regular quatrains and regular rhyme scheme create an impression of.. Bronte’s use of trochee at the start of lines… emphasises the… Grammar and syntax: The … sentence mood allows Bronte to… The inverted syntax in the quote “…” demonstrates… However In contrast to Likewise Similarly Dissimilarly Alternatively In comparison to Differently Lexis and imagery: The use of adjectives in the poem… The lexical field of… puts the reader in a position of… Phonology: The use of alliteration in the quote “…” illustrates… The use of assonance…