Hello there.

Nice to see you today.

Welcome to today's lesson, as we continue to explore the poetry from the AQA World and Lives anthology.

My name is Mr. Barnsley.

I'm so pleased that you are joining me today.

In today's lesson, we are gonna be analysing the poem, "The Jewellery Maker." You are gonna need your copy of the AQA Anthology in front of you.

It looks a little bit like this, so please make sure that you have got it so you can have a version of the poem in front of you.

Okay, are you ready? Well, let's get started.

Alright, let's have a look at our outcome then, shall we? So by the end of the lesson, you are gonna be able to explain how Parker uses language and structure to present her viewpoint.

So five key words that we're gonna be keeping an eye out for today.

They are marginalised, ironic, contrast, tone, and figurative language.

Okay, let's make sure we understand what each of these means.

So when they turn up in the lesson, we recognise them, but also hopefully we'll be able to start using them in our own analysis.

So marginalised means to be treated as if you are not important.

Peripheral on the edges and being isolated.

Ironic means the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case.

So if those two things don't align, we might see that as irony.

A contrast is an obvious difference between two or more things.

The tone is the overall mood or attitude conveyed by the writer's use of language and structure.

So we'll be really thinking about the tone, the mood, and the attitude of the poem.

And finally, figurative language is when we use words or ideas to suggest meaning and create a kind of a mental image, a clear image in our mind.

Alright, keep an eye out for those words.

And take a moment to jot them down if you wish.

Okay, so today's lesson is all about analysis.

There are three learning cycles in today's lesson.

We're gonna start at the very beginning of the poem by thinking about the title itself And then we'll move on to analysing a language and structure hoping that we can say some really, really interesting things about Parker's beautiful poem.

Alright, let's start by analysing the title.

So when we're considering the poet's intended meaning it's really, really useful place to start is the title.

Why do you think the title is always an interesting place to start? Why don't you pause the video and discuss this.

If you've got a partner, brilliant why don't you talk it through with them? But don't worry if you're working by yourself, you can just think through this question independently.

Okay, over to you.

Pause the video, have a think and press play when you are ready to continue.

Some really interesting ideas there.

And I was really impressed by people talking about other texts, maybe novellas or the poems that they've read and thinking about, okay, why would those titles important to really help the discussion? That was great to hear.

Well done.

Okay, Alex, one of our eight people said, well the title is the first thing we see.

Therefore, the poet has likely chosen it in order to evoke a particular response that will influence our reading of the poem and affect how we interpret the meaning.

Did you think something similar to Alex? Well done if you did.

So let's think about this title then, shall we? "The Jewellery Maker." I've got a couple of questions to help you analyse the title in a little bit more detail.

Firstly, what is the effect of saying the rather than a? Okay, so the choice of determiner in that title, "The Jewellery Maker," rather than A Jewellery Maker.

What's the impact? And also what's the effect in identifying someone as the jewellery maker calling a person "The Jewellery Maker." What's the effect there? Okay, why don't you pause the video so you've got some time to think through these questions.

Again, this might be something you wish to do as a pair, but if you are working by yourself, you can just think through these independently.

Alright, pause the video, have a think and press play when you're ready to continue.

Really great job there.

I heard some lovely discussions.

Well done, I really want to shine a spotlight on some of the fantastic things I heard actually.

So well done, if you said something like, by using the determiner the, it attributes a sense of importance to the jewellery maker.

He's not just any old jewellery maker, he is the jewellery maker, alright? It really creates, kind of elevates him and his importance.

But let's think about the effect then.

But why, if we identify someone as the jewellery maker what is the impact of that? Well, well done If you said something along the lines of it really implies that his profession is the most important and possibly definitive part of their identity.

His profession or his role as a jewellery maker is a really important, if not the most important part of who he is.

And that's quite interesting actually.

That's quite interesting for us to think about.

Would you want to be defined by your profession? Let's have a look, let's explore that in a little bit more detail.

So let's start though by checking how we're getting on checking our understanding, true or false.

Parker's title, arguably attributes and importance to the character, the jewellery maker.

Is that true or false? Pause the video.

Have a think and press play when you're ready to continue.

Really well done.

If you said true, let's justify that then.

Is it because the title is "The Jewellery Maker," or the title is A Jewellery Maker? Pause the video, have a think and press play when you're ready to continue.

Yes, of course, the title of the poem is "The Jewellery Maker," and that determinant is really important in attributing importance to this character.

Okay, over back to you for our first task, we're gonna do a bit more discussing and thinking.

Throughout the poem the jewellery maker isn't given a name.

We don't learn his name, his first name, his surname.

We don't learn anything beyond the title, "The Jewellery Maker." Why do you think then Parker chooses to title a poem "The Jewellery Maker," yet never gives him a name? Things to think about as you're discussing.

What does the title suggest about their profession and their identity? We know that Parker often writes about marginalised voices, people who are on the periphery, on the edges.

How might not giving the jewellery maker a name kind of feed into this? How can we link this to the idea of marginalisation? We also know the title of the poem is the first thing you see.

How might Parker's title of "The Jewellery Maker," be considered ironic given his marginalisation? Alright, it's over to you for this.

This is a discussion activity, so if you've got a partner, I think it'd be fantastic to discuss with them and see their ideas.

But like I said, if you're working by yourself, that's absolutely fine.

You can just take a few moments to think through this.

You might even want to make a couple of notes of your thoughts.

Alright, pause the video, give this a task a go and press play when you're ready to continue.

Okay, I heard some wonderful discussions there.

I think it now will be a really good opportunity to think about what we said in a little bit more detail.

We're gonna do that by comparing our answers, our discussions to that of Alex, one of our eight pupils.

So let's read what he said and then think, do we agree with what he said? Why? Why not? I think Parker chooses not to give the jewellery maker a name, firstly, because it enhances the impression from the title that their profession is the defining part of their identity.

Secondly, this also feeds into the notion of the jewellery maker being a marginalised voice because it implies that all they are is a maker of jewellery for other people, they have no personal importance.

Finally, I think the title could be ironic because Parker's denomination of the, bestows and importance onto the jewellery maker that contradicts everything else, pointing to their personal insignificance and therefore serves to highlight his marginalisation.

Why don't you pause the video and think about how you feel about Alex's ideas.

Do you agree with them or not? Okay, pause the video, have a think and press play when you're ready to continue.

Really interesting.

What I really liked about Alex's response was this last point about the irony of the title here.

Interestingly, we know that the jewellery maker is marginalised.

He's seen as pretty insignificant the grand scheme of life, yet the title and that determiner the, really suggests importance.

So we have this contradiction here, which I think is really important or really interesting for us to explore.

Alright, time for us to do some analysis of language now.

So let's consider the language that Parker uses to describe the creation process when the jeweller is making the jewellery, here are three quotations that come from that section of the poem.

"Gold butterflies dance." "Flowers bloom." "Silvery, moons, wax and wane." I want you to discuss what does the jewellery maker appear to have control over and what are the implications of this? Alright, pause the video, have a think.

And press play when you are ready to continue.

Alright, some great ideas there.

Really well done to people who said something similar to this.

The quotations appear to suggest that through the process of making the jewellery, the jewellery maker has control over nature.

He's able to bring to life the flowers or bring life to the flowers and influence the actions of dragonflies.

Arguably Parker could be making the jewellery maker's ability seem almost God-like we know that no matter what religion that you follow, kind of the control of nature is attributed to gods.

So the jewellery maker's ability seems almost God-like in order to not only emphasise the importance of his work but also the connection to his creations, it creates a real sense of beauty in what he's creating.

Well done if you said something similar during your discussions.

Alright, let's do a little check then.

What does the image of the jewellery maker making the flowers bloom imply? Is it A, that the jewellery maker has control over nature? B, that the jewellery maker's work is not important? C, that the jewellery maker would rather be working with flowers than metal? What do you think? Pause the video.

Have a think and press play when you're ready to continue.

Yeah, really well done.

If you said A, it suggests that the jewellery maker can control nature.

So as well as using this positive language, Parker also uses figurative language to create a contrast, a difference in the imagery.

So Parker describes the jewellery maker laying out his tools as neat as soldiers.

Okay, what are the implications of this simile, neat as soldiers? and what's the image of soldiers suggest to you? Pause the video and if you've got a partner you can discuss with them.

Otherwise you can just think through these questions to yourself.

Have a think, pause the video and press play when you're ready to continue.

Great job, well done if you've said something similar to what can see on screen.

Arguably soldiers create a contrast of these natural images because we associate soldiers with violence.

So potentially Parker does this to hint at that underlying tension.

Remember that there is a tension here because the jeweller kind of loves the things he creates but hates the fact that he sells them and would love to give them to his wife.

Furthermore, soldiers are people who follow orders, okay? They are very regimented.

So arguably Parker might be drawing attention to this idea that the jewellery maker could be being stifled in his creativity because he has to follow certain trends or orders of his clients and this contributes to this underlying sense of tension between doing the thing that he loves but maybe not always doing it in the way that he would love to do it.

Alright, let's have a little check.

Which of the following quotations are tension to the poem? Is it gold butterflies dance? Neat as soldiers or flowers bloom? What do you think? Pause the video.

Have a think and press play when you're ready to continue.

Yes, that's neat as soldiers, that's simile that example of figurative language.

All right, over to you now, throughout the poem we also see a semantic field of heat.

Okay, that's when there's a group of words that are all linked by theme.

These are examples of these are heat baked, hot, sun, warming.

Okay, so these are all words from the poem that we could group together saying they're a semantic field of heat.

What I want you to do is write a short answer to this question.

How might we link this? The repeated image of heat to the meaning of "The Jewellery Maker." Okay, what are we learning? What does this image, these images of the semantic field of heat, the repeated image of heat, what's that telling us about "The Jewellery Maker?" Things you might want to consider.

The emotions that the jewellery maker feels throughout the poem and this contradiction of the life giving yet destructive nature of heat.

We know that people, nature needs heat to survive, but actually when things are too hot, it can destroy life.

I want you to remember, as you are writing your response to use quotations in your answer, I want you to make sure you explain your ideas fully.

And I want you to make sure you are always thinking about what Parker's intentions are.

What message is she trying to give to the people who read her poetry? Alright, pause the video.

Good luck with this and press play when you are ready to continue.

Really great to see you all writing there with some confidence, well done and particularly well done to everyone who checked their spelling, punctuation and grammar before they put their pen down.

Alright, let's compare our responses to Alex, okay? I'm gonna read his answer and check it meets that success criteria that we had on our task slide.

So Alex wrote, using words such as heat, warming, sun and hot to create a semantic field of heat that could link to the jewellery maker's emotions and feelings about his jewellery since the heat could represent both the life that he gives to his creations, but also the anger he feels at having to sell them.

Alright, let's check Alex's work against a success criteria, shall we? Well, does he use quotations? Yes he does.

Okay, does he explain his quotations? Yes, this is a really nice inference about the two different things that the heat could represent both the heat that's needed to kind of make the metal malleable so he can create his creations.

But at the same time, kind of when we think of a flame it might have connotations of anger and we know that the jewellery feels some anger towards having to sell his jewellery.

Does Alex consider Parker's intentions? Well, no he doesn't.

Okay, so he doesn't link to Parker's wider message.

So why don't you pause and have a think.

What could Alex add to his response to link this back to Parker's intentions? Pause the video, have a think and press play when you're ready to continue.

Some really nice discussions there.

Let's have a look at what Alex did right then, he said, through this, Parker could be trying to show the tension at the heart of the poem.

While the jewellery maker is godlike in his workshop, he lives in poverty and insignificance in the wider world.

That's a really nice idea and actually we could take that even further and saying actually that is something that Parker could feel angry about, perhaps feels angry about, and that he can represent that anger that unfairness when we see someone so talented, so gifted, so God-like in his workshop, yet is treated so badly in wider society, lives in poverty and seen as completely insignificant.

Great ideas there from Alex and I hope you got something similar.

Alright, time for us now to analyse the structure of this poem.

So analysing the way a poet has chosen to order the poem is an important structural consideration because the order affects the journey through the poem that we as the reader are going to take.

So I want you to imagine that these three circles represent the three stanzas in the poem.

So discuss if you had to write a three word summary for each stanza, what would you write in the middle of each of these circles? Why don't you pause the video, have a think about this and press play when you are ready to move on.

Yes, really well done if you said something about that first stanza being all about the journey, you know him walking to the workshop, you might have said that second stanza focused on the making of the jewellery.

And that third stanza was all about selling the jewellery.

Well done if you said anything similar to what you can see on the screen.

So how might the tone of the poem then be affected if we began with that third stanza So if we started with this idea that the jewellery maker has to sell the jewellery, how would that change the poem or the tone of the poem? Why don't you pause and have a think about that.

Okay, pause the video and have a think about that and press play when you are ready to continue.

Okay, welcome back.

Let's have a look at what Alex said and you can compare what you were discussing to Alex.

He said, well starting with the third stanza that would remove our understanding of the intensive process behind making the jewellery and how it connects to the man's heritage.

Therefore, it would remove some of the tension from the tone because we wouldn't comprehend why having to sell the jewellery evokes such a sharp bitter response from the man.

We might even question why the man feels so angry about it.

However, by going through those two steps, by seeing the care and the love that he puts into his creation, actually I think it makes us really feel or potentially makes us feel really sympathetic and empathetic towards the man and allows us to understand where his frustrations come from.

True or false then? The order of the poem affects the meaning of it.

Is that true or false? Pause the video, have a think and press play when you're ready to continue.

Yes, well done if you said true, let's justify that then.

Starting with a third stanza would be likely to increase the tense tone.

Or starting with a third stanza that would be likely to decrease the tense tone.

What do you think? Pause the video and press play when you are ready for the response.

Yes, that is B.

If we started with that third stanza about selling the jewellery, I don't think the poem would be quite as tense as it ends up being.

So we also know that the poem has an irregular structure since there is no kind of pattern to the rhyme or the rhythm.

A visual of an irregular structure might look like this.

Okay, you know it's not kind of repeating the same pattern, kind of the pattern seems to change at different points or we can't even see a pattern.

So if we compare this to a regular structure where everything is the same and organised, what feelings or ideas might we associate with irregular structures to poetry? What do you think? Pause the video and have a think about that.

Press play when you're ready to continue.

Really interesting, there were lots of different ideas that we can bring when we're talking about irregularity.

It might mean freedom or creativity or refusing to conform, but it could also mean chaos or anger, worry, stress or potentially excitement.

So I think there's lots and lots and lots of different things that we can associate with an irregular structure.

Now, whenever we're talking about structure, we really want to link it to the writer's intention, okay? Really trying to create that connection between the structural devices that a poet has used, and the messages they're trying to convey.

So our own pupils have done this.

They've given this a go and I want you to think about whose analysis do you find more convincing and why? Is it Sam's who said, I think the irregularity represents the freedom of creativity that the jewellery maker has.

Or do you find Alex is more convincing? He said, I think the irregularity represents the conflicting emotions that the jewellery maker has, pride in his creations, but bitterness at having to sell them.

Why don't you pause the video, have a think about who you agree with most and why.

Alright, over to you.

Press play when you are ready to continue.

This is a really, really interesting one.

I could hear you kind of going back and forth.

I don't know if you feel the same as me.

I like Sam's interpretation.

I think irregularity can really represent freedom and creativity.

And I think for parts of the poem this can be the case.

OKay we can see the creativity particularly in stanza two with that beautiful natural imagery.

So I think it does work there.

However, that last stanza, when we start to see the frustration and bitterness that the jewellery maker feels, means that I'm probably slightly leaning more towards Alex's as being the most convincing.

I do think it really represents the shift in emotions that we see from pride and creativity to actually this bitterness that having to sell them.

And I think ultimately, whilst the jeweller might have some creativity in the creation process, some freedom, sorry, in the creation process, freedom and creativity in the creation process, I think there is a lack of freedom in the fact that he doesn't get to do what he wants with the jewellery, which is to give it to his wife.

So I am probably leaning more towards Alex's interpretation, although I can see how an irregular pattern could represent that creativity, that freedom in the second stanza.

Alright, interesting to note which ideas that you agree with and might take forward into your own analysis.

So which of the following might an irregular structure represent? Is it A control B, anger or C conformity? When you conform to something.

A, B, or C, what do you think? Pause the video.

Have a go at this and press play when you're ready to continue.

Yes, well done.

If you said B, that is anger.

Alright, final task then.

Let's try to think conceptually about structure and we're trying to really connect it to Parker's meaning.

So having no rhyme or rhythm means there is no logic to the structure of a poem.

So how can we connect this idea to the meaning of the poem? I want to take this idea of a lack of logic or there being no logic and link it to Parker's intentions, Parker's meaning, what might Parker be saying has no logic.

I want you to write your answers down a short response to this Things you might wish to consider, the notion that Parker, we know Parker's writing usually focuses on marginalised voices.

What the jewellery maker would like to do with his creation versus what he actually does with his creations.

Alright, pause the video, give this a go and press play when you're ready to continue.

Good luck.

I know you can do this.

Really, really well done on that activity.

Writing about structure can feel challenging, but it's really impressive when you can take an idea and maybe it's something about structure like this and you go, okay, let me think about what the poet is trying to say.

What connections can I make between those choices? So really well done for giving this a go.

Alright, I think it's time now for us to compare our work to that of Alex, one of our eight pupils.

And again, I want us to read through this together and then think, do you agree with Alex's interpretation? Why or why not? Let's have a look what Alex said then shall we? I think that perhaps Parker's use of an irregular structure could be linked to wider ideas about marginalised artists.

And the lack of power they have over their creations.

Potentially Parker is saying that there is no logic behind someone having almost God-like power in their own workshop, but not in the wider world.

Arguably, her intention could be to say that artists should have greater power and significance in the world.

Or it could be to say that artists should not have to live in poverty at the whims of their customers.

Alright, have a think about what you liked about Alex's response and what you agreed about it or if there's anything you disagreed with.

And as you do that you can pause the video and if there's anything from Alex's response that you think, I really like that and I want to remember that, why didn't you add that to your own writing now? Okay, pause the video, reflect on what Alex said, and then press play when you are ready to move on.

Right, that's it.

We reach the end of today's lesson.

Really well done for all of your hard work today.

On the screen you can see a summary of everything we've covered.

Let's quickly go through that together, and you can check that you feel really confident on each of these things.

'Cause it confidence before you move on is what we're aiming for.

Okay, so the title, "The Jewellery Maker," conveys an importance onto the maker, but we could also consider this to be slightly ironic.

The natural imagery in the poem creates a God-like impression of the maker.

The figurative language in the poem creates a tense tone in the poem.

The heat imagery in the poem could represent both the warmth and the anger of the maker.

And the irregularity of the could refer to the creativity of the maker or his conflicting emotions around his work.

Okay, thank you so much for joining me today.

Really, really well done for all of your hard work.

And I hope to see you in one of our lessons in the future.

Alright, have a great day.

See you all soon.

Bye-Bye.