1. Objectives
Read, understand and annotate An Irish Childhood in England 1951, applying our contextual knowledge.
Read and connect a partner poem.
Answer any Boland class questions???
Homework: read The Poet, The Pilgrim and New Territory (EB p9-10). Look up any references you don’t understand.

2. Plan for criticising a poem
“Read, understand and annotate, applying our contextual knowledge.”
Meaning?
Form/structure?
Figurative language?
Sound?
Rhetorical devices/interesting things?

3. ‘An Irish Childhood In London:1951’, p93.
Meaning
What picture does Boland paint of England? (s1)
How did she feel about the move then? (s2)
Where is she writing about it now? (s2)
What picture does she paint of that place? (s2+3)
What choice does she wonder if she made? (s3+4)
How does she describe her child self? (s4)
What was England to her then? (s5)
Overall, how does she feel about it now?
Understanding a poem’s meaning is like going on a journey – how does it get from A to B?

4. Techniques Form/structure? Figurative language? Sound?
Rhetorical devices/interesting things?

5. Partner Poems
To inform understanding of the core text (so no need for detailed analysis):
“By facilitating links or contrasts such as of:
Genre
Period
Theme
Structure
Style
“It is the quality of the connection that counts.”

6. How did we get on?
Read, understand and annotate ‘An Irish Childhood in England 1951’, applying our contextual knowledge.
Read and connect a partner poem.
Answer any Boland class questions???
Homework: read The Poet, The Pilgrim and New Territory (EB p9-10). Look up any references you don’t understand.