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Poetry December

The poem describes a powerful storm through vivid imagery of a raging wind and the effects it has on the landscape and house. The poet uses words like 'stampeding', 'floundering', 'tent', 'drummed', 'straining', 'quivering', 'grimace' to convey the sheer force and magnitude of the storm. The repeating idea of the house feeling like it could 'shatter' at any moment underscores the desolation created by the storm.

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Poetry December

The poem describes a powerful storm through vivid imagery of a raging wind and the effects it has on the landscape and house. The poet uses words like 'stampeding', 'floundering', 'tent', 'drummed', 'straining', 'quivering', 'grimace' to convey the sheer force and magnitude of the storm. The repeating idea of the house feeling like it could 'shatter' at any moment underscores the desolation created by the storm.

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POETRY DECEMBER

Part 1

Read the poem carefully.

Wind
This house has been far out at sea all night,
The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills,
Winds stampeding the fields under the window
Floundering black astride and blinding wet

Till day rose; then under an orange sky


The hills had new places, and wind wielded
Blade-light, luminous black and emerald,
Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

At noon I scaled along the house-side as far as


The coal-house door. Once I looked up –
Through the brunt wind that dented the balls of my eyes
The tent of the hills drummed and strained its guyrope,

The fields quivering, the skyline a grimace,


At any second to bang and vanish with a flap;
The wind flung a magpie away and a black-
Back gull bent like an iron bar slowly. The house

Rang like some fine green goblet in the note


That any second would shatter it. Now deep
In chairs, in front of the great fire, we grip
Our hearts and cannot entertain book, thought,

Or each other. We watch the fire blazing,


And feel the roots of the house move, but sit on,
Seeing the window tremble to come in,
Hearing the stones cry out under the horizons.

— Ted Hughes

1- Complete the following paragraph: (3)

Wind’ by Ted Hughes is a _______ - stanza poem that is separated into sets of _____

lines, known as ______. These _______ do not follow a specific _______ scheme or

metrical pattern, meaning that the poem is written in _____ verse. Despite this, there

are some examples of half-rhyme and full rhyme in the text.


2- Give an example of full rhyme. (1)

3- Explain and find an example of the following literary devices (4):

a- Alliteration
b- Onomatopoeia
c- Enjambment

4- Read the poem and explain how Hughes powerfully conveys the idea of
desolation.(4)

5- What words or images does the poet use to describe the true magnitude
of the storm?(4)

 Don’t forget to back up your answers with information


from the poem.

Part 2.
Read the poem and answer the questions below.

Pleasant Sounds
The rustling of leaves under the feet in woods and under hedges;
The crumpling of cat-ice and snow down wood-rides, narrow lanes,
and every street causeway;
Rustling through a wood or rather rushing, while the wind halloos in
the oak-top like thunder;
The rustle of birds’ wings startled from their nests or flying unseen
into the bushes;
The whizzing of larger birds overhead in a wood, such as crows,
puddocks, buzzards;
The trample of robins and woodlarks on the brown leaves, and the
patter of squirrels on the green moss;
The fall of an acorn on the ground, the pattering of nuts on the hazel
branches as they fall from ripeness;
The flirt of the groundlark’s wing from the stubbles - how sweet such
pictures on dewy mornings, when the dew flashes from its brown
feathers.
by John Clare

6- How does the poet present the idea of Autumn? Explain. (3)

7- Focus on the first stanza and make note of those words which describe
sounds.(1)

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