1. The Door
Miroslav Holub

2. Your reading What do you think the poem is about?
Start with, “The Door by Miroslav Holub is about…”
Or “I think the poem The Door is about…”

3. How does the text work?
Imperative language is instructional language that commands you to act. Identify the examples of imperative language in the poem.
What is the impact of the imperative language?

4. Tone
Tone is the emotion or attitude of the voice or words themselves. The tone is the writer’s attitude to their subject. Texts can have a positive, neutral or negative tone. Words that describe tone are optimistic, pessimistic, critical, cynical, enthusiastic.
Describe the tone of The Door, using one example from the poem to support your response.

5. Modality
Modality refers to the degree of certainty or probability, likelihood.
Words such as certainly/ definitely have high modality, whereas words such as sometimes, perhaps, usually are lower on the modality scale.
Identify one low modality word in the poem. What is the effect of this word?
Identify one high modal word. What is the impact of this word?