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The Notes For My Hero by Willis Hall in Poetry For Pleasure (Form2 Literature Component)

The document provides notes and analysis for the poem "My Hero" by Willis Hall. It explores the theme of a child viewing their father as a hero who is afraid of nothing, except spiders. The notes analyze each stanza of the poem, pointing out that the father claims to be unafraid of monsters, ghosts, and other frightening things but the mother must remove spiders from the bath. The overall message is that even perceived heroes have weaknesses, and it is normal for all people to feel fear sometimes.

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The Notes For My Hero by Willis Hall in Poetry For Pleasure (Form2 Literature Component)

The document provides notes and analysis for the poem "My Hero" by Willis Hall. It explores the theme of a child viewing their father as a hero who is afraid of nothing, except spiders. The notes analyze each stanza of the poem, pointing out that the father claims to be unafraid of monsters, ghosts, and other frightening things but the mother must remove spiders from the bath. The overall message is that even perceived heroes have weaknesses, and it is normal for all people to feel fear sometimes.

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LITERATURE COMPONENTS

MY HERO BY WILLIS
HALL
FEBRUARY 29, 2016 4SKILLSACADEMIC 11 COMMENTS

The Notes for My Hero by Willis Hall


in Poetry for Pleasure (Form2
Literature Component)
When we watched the superhero movies like Spiderman, The Hulk,
Ironman, Thor, Xmen, and many others, we find that no matter how strong
the person is, he or she still has weaknesses. Even a superhero has its
weaknesses, we as an ordinary person, of course we do have weaknesses.
In our life, we could be elder brother or sister, could be parents, could be
teacher, and could be leader in a group. There are expectations that we
have to show bravery and hide away our timidness, just as some people
might say it, not brave enough? Then act like you are.
This poem explore this issue from a perspective of a child towards the
father.

Little Notes for this poem

Poet: Willis Hall


Setting of the Poem: No particular place, but most probably at home
Persona: A child
About the poem: A child is wondering about the bravery of the
father.
Tone: Irony and Humourous

Stanza to Stanza Guides


Original Poem

Guides to Understand
the Poem

1. Who is the persona?


2. How the persona
thinks of the dad?

My Dads as brave as a dad can be,


I rate him Number One,
Hes not afraid of the dead of night,
Or anything under the sun.

Hes not afraid of a late-night film,


Full of horrors on the telly,
And is he afraid of skeletons?
Not Dad, not on your Nelly!

Hes not afraid of meeting ghosts,


Hed even smile and greet em,
And things that scared most dads the
most,
My dad could just defeat em.

Hes not afraid of vampires,


Or a wolf-man come to get him,
If Frankenstein monster knocked on
our door,
He wouldnt let that upset him.

My dads as brave as a dad can be,


And hes always ready to prove it.
So why, when a spiders in the bath,
Does Mum have to come and remove
it?

3. What are the things


that the father is not
afraid of?
4. What is dead of
night?

1. Anything else the


father is not afraid of?
2. What is the telly?
3. not on your
nelly = not at all

1. What is another
thing that the dad is not
afraid of?
2. How will the dad
react?
3. What will the dad
do even if he met the
scariest thing?

1. List down the


monsters that the dad is
not afraid.

1. The dad always


shows off that he is
brave.
2. What happen when
there is a spider in the
bathtub?

Exercise
1.

Which of the following is NOT the lesson learnt of this poem?

A.

We should be humble

C.

Father is afraid of the


spider

B.

Parents should not lie


to their children

D.

Everyone has strengths


and weaknesses

2.

How is the fathers reaction when he sees a ghost?

A.

happy

C.

panic

B.

calm

D.

angry

3.

What is the dead in stanza 1 line 3 meant?

A.

the dead person

C.

Monsters and zombies

B.

Silence and darkness

D.

Robbers

4.

Who is the persona?

A.

child

C.

mother

B.

father

D.

Vampires

5.

What is the tone in the last stanza?

A.

curious

C.

worried

B.

serious

D.

irony

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