1. Please hand in your research stuff!
Objectives
Focus: “Reading between the lines” – what is the poet suggesting?
"I don't write a poem to express an experience. I write it to experience the experience.“
Tasks: Interpret ‘New Territory’, ‘Mirages’, ‘The Flight of the Earls’.
Please hand in your research stuff!

2. Mirages How can you divide the poems into sections?
What significant word groups can you find?
What “experiences” could she be talking about:
literally?
metaphorically?
Eavan Boland: "I don't write a poem to express an experience. I write it to experience the experience.“

3. The Flight of the Earls What Earls? What Flight?
Flight of the Earls - Wikipedia, the free ency
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The Flight of the Earls
What Earls?
What Flight?

4. 2. Who is Brendan Kennelly?
The Flight of the Earls
2. Who is Brendan Kennelly?

5. Reflect How have we read between the lines?
Can we answer any of our Boland questions now?
What do we need to do to answer them as we carry on?

6. Half term home work
Read: Clare Pollard’s poem, The Journey (part 1 of Look Clare, Look!). Test!
Listen: to Eavan Boland’s interview at:
Write: Discuss the role and representations of journeys in Eavan Boland’s poetry. Use two poems of your choice. Due first lesson back.