1. 9. I can compare the writers key ideas and attitudes
Title: Cap and Bells
Date: 02 August 2019
Objective: Can I recognise the similarities and differences between Yeats’ poem and Romeo and Juliet?
Success Criteria
Grade/level
1. I show an understanding of the key ideas in the text
2. I show an understanding of the whole text.
All
5. I show an understanding of how language is used for effect
7. I show an understanding of how the text affects the reader as a poem.
Most
9. I can compare the writers key ideas and attitudes
15. I can explore links between the two texts I am studying.
Some
Numeracy
Literacy
Comparison of key ideas
SMSC
& Values
Understanding how attitudes change over time

2. W.B. Yeats
LO: Can I recognise the similarities and differences between Yeats’ poem and Romeo and Juliet? 2
Who would wear a hat like this?

3. Exploding a poem: read through the poem once alone and write down your first reaction.
Do you like the poem?
Is there anything that stands out to you?
Is there anything that confuses you? 2
7. I show an understanding of how the text affects the reader as a poem.

4. Exploding a poem: read again- what do you think the poem is generally about?2
I show an understanding of the key ideas in the text
2. I show an understanding of the whole text.

5. Exploding a poem:
Pick out a phrase or a line that makes an impression on you.
What are the connotations? 2
5. I show an understanding of how language is used for effect

6. Exploding a poem: What questions would you ask about the poem
Exploding a poem: What questions would you ask about the poem? Pick out specific lines that you would like to ask about. 2
11. I can use a range of interesting quotations to support my points

7. The Cap and Bells
THE JESTER walked in the garden:
The garden had fallen still;
He bade his soul rise upward
And stand on her window-sill.
It rose in a straight blue garment,
When owls began to call:
It had grown wise-tongued by thinking
Of a quiet and light footfall;
But the young queen would not listen;
She rose in her pale night gown; 10
She drew in the heavy casement
And pushed the latches down.
He bade his heart go to her,
When the owls called out no more;
In a red and quivering garment 15
It sang to her through the door.

8. It had grown sweet-tongued by dreaming,
Of a flutter of flower-like hair;
But she took up her fan from the table
And waved it off on the air. 20
‘I have cap and bells’ he pondered,
‘I will send them to her and die;’
And when the morning whitened
He left them where she went by.
She laid them upon her bosom, 25
Under a cloud of her hair,
And her red lips sang them a love song:
Till stars grew out of the air.
She opened her door and her window,
And the heart and the soul came through, 30
To her right hand came the red one,
To her left hand came the blue.
They set up a noise like crickets,
A chattering wise and sweet,
And her hair was a folded flower 35
And the quiet of love in her feet.
The Cap and Bells
THE JESTER walked in the garden:
The garden had fallen still;
He bade his soul rise upward
And stand on her window-sill.
It rose in a straight blue garment,
When owls began to call:
It had grown wise-tongued by thinking
Of a quiet and light footfall;
But the young queen would not listen;
She rose in her pale night gown; 10
She drew in the heavy casement
And pushed the latches down.
He bade his heart go to her,
When the owls called out no more;
In a red and quivering garment 15
It sang to her through the door.

9. Things to pick out:
Similarity between the scenario and the balcony scene in R+J
“with loves light wings, did I o’erperch these walls.”
Jester compared to a queen- Romeo compares Juliet to a saint- thinks himself unworthy of her love?
Contrast to Juliet, who is immediately willing to hear what Romeo has to say.
She is defending herself. Similarity to Juliet?
He is willing to make himself vulnerable for her, giving up his heart and soul.
‘red and quivering garment’ highlights the vulnerable position his heart is in- link to Romeo’s vulnerable position in the Capulet mansion.
The Cap and Bells
THE JESTER walked in the garden:
The garden had fallen still;
He bade his soul rise upward
And stand on her window-sill.
It rose in a straight blue garment,
When owls began to call:
It had grown wise-tongued by thinking
Of a quiet and light footfall;
But the young queen would not listen;
She rose in her pale night gown; 10
She drew in the heavy casement
And pushed the latches down.
He bade his heart go to her,
When the owls called out no more;
In a red and quivering garment 15
It sang to her through the door.

10. It had grown sweet-tongued by dreaming,
Of a flutter of flower-like hair;
But she took up her fan from the table
And waved it off on the air. 20
‘I have cap and bells’ he pondered,
‘I will send them to her and die;’
And when the morning whitened
He left them where she went by.
She laid them upon her bosom, 25
Under a cloud of her hair,
And her red lips sang them a love song:
Till stars grew out of the air.
She opened her door and her window,
And the heart and the soul came through, 30
To her right hand came the red one,
To her left hand came the blue.
They set up a noise like crickets,
A chattering wise and sweet,
And her hair was a folded flower 35
And the quiet of love in her feet.

11. It had grown sweet-tongued by dreaming,
Of a flutter of flower-like hair;
But she took up her fan from the table
And waved it off on the air. 20
‘I have cap and bells’ he pondered,
‘I will send them to her and die;’
And when the morning whitened
He left them where she went by.
She laid them upon her bosom, 25
Under a cloud of her hair,
And her red lips sang them a love song:
Till stars grew out of the air.
She opened her door and her window,
And the heart and the soul came through, 30
To her right hand came the red one,
To her left hand came the blue.
They set up a noise like crickets,
A chattering wise and sweet,
And her hair was a folded flower 35
And the quiet of love in her feet.
His heart is intoxicated by her beauty
His cap and bells symbolise who he is (a jester.) by being willing to relinquish them for her, he shows he will give up his identity for her- link to Romeo ‘Neither lady, if either you dislike’
He is willing to die for her.
She is unable to resist his love, despite knowing it is unwise.
Symbolises her opening herself up to him- letting down her defences as Juliet does
Regular rhyme structure- the inevitability of them ending up together- could mirror R+J’s fated love?

12. Fill out your comparison grid for this poem and Romeo and Juliet

13. Similarities/ Differences
Romeo and Juliet
Cap and Bells
Similarities/ Differences
Message about love
(PLC 1 &2)
Specific examples that tell us something about love (pick out key lines/ scenes to discuss) (PLC 4&5)
How structure is used to support the message (PLC 6)
How context affects our reading of the play/ poem’s message about love (PLC3)

14. Homework:
Fill out your AQA planning sheet using the two poems we have studied so far.
How do Shakespeare and Yeats present ideas about love in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘The Wind Among the Reeds’?
Due: