Want to: Shrink the Pink. Reduce the Puce. Have: No Rose on the Prose Want to: Shrink the Pink! Reduce the Puce! Have: No Rose on the Prose! (and get Ms C to stop nagging) ?

The Essentials: Go back to the beginning of my book and: Ensure all work is clearly labelled – date, title, HW and these are underlined with a ruler. Correct all SPaG errors clearly in red pen up to now– tick off in the margin as you go. Do all tasks that are set as part of your targets on your marking sticker or are highlighted in PINK, acting on the advice and using the models. Then: take care not to repeat mistakes in future and proofread.

Comparative poetry: a model Whilst Duffy explores the impact of war through the experiences of a contemporary photographer in her poem ‘War Photographer’, Owen, as a soldier in the First World War himself, writes from a more personal perspective about life in the trenches in ‘Exposure’. Both however, consider the devastating effect that war can have on those who are involved. For Duffy’s character, being in the darkroom is ‘as though this were a church’. The simile highlights how here, away from the fighting, he feels protected and safe; the darkroom is his sanctuary where he is ‘a priest’ who has control and faith in his ability to raise awareness of the conflicts he has witnessed in ‘Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.’ through his photographs. In contrast, for the speaker in ‘Exposure’ there is no safety. The soldiers are exposed to the ‘merciless iced east winds that knive us…’. Owen’s cruel personification of the wind and his unusual use of the verb ‘knive’ suggests that the army is being attacked, not just by the opposing enemy but by nature, leading to the shattering conclusion that ‘love of God seems dying.’ The soldiers feel abandoned as they ‘turn back to our dying’.

Comparative poetry: a model Whilst Duffy explores the impact of war through the experiences of a contemporary photographer in her poem ‘War Photographer’, Owen, as a soldier in the First World War himself, writes from a more personal perspective about life in the trenches in ‘Exposure’. Both however, consider the devastating effect that war has on those involved. For Duffy’s character, being in the darkroom is ‘as though this were a church’. The simile highlights how here, away from the fighting, he feels protected and safe; the darkroom is his sanctuary where he is ‘a priest’ who has control and faith in his ability to raise awareness of the conflicts he has witnessed in ‘Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.’ through his photographs. In contrast, for the speaker in ‘Exposure’ there is no safety. The soldiers are exposed to the ‘merciless iced east winds that knive us…’. Owen’s cruel personification of the wind and his unusual use of the verb ‘knive’ suggests that the army is being attacked, not just by the opposing enemy but by nature, leading to the shattering conclusion that ‘love of God seems dying.’ The soldiers feel abandoned as they ‘turn back to our dying’.

The Essentials: NOW! Go back to the beginning of my book and: Ensure all work is clearly labelled – date, title, HW and these are underlined with a ruler. Correct all SPaG errors clearly in red pen up to now– tick off in the margin as you go. Do all tasks that are set as part of your targets on your marking sticker or are highlighted in PINK, acting on the advice and using the models. EXTENSION TASK: In anthologies, read ‘My Last Duchess’ (P30-31). Can you identify the faults that the Duke says he saw in his wife? What evidence supports this? What does Browning suggest about the Duke as a man in the poem?