Analysing the poem 'With Birds You're Never Lonely'

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In 'AQA World and Lives Poetry continued', pupils used a range of reading skills to aid the supported decoding of challenging poems. In Unseen Poetry, pupils use these reading skills to decode texts with independence. 

In 'AQA World and Lives Poetry', pupils compared the language, form and structure of a variety of poems connected by the themes of culture and identity. In 'AQA World and Lives Poetry continued', pupils work on making more nuanced comparisons, focusing on the final three poems: *With Birds You're Never Lonely*, *The Jewellery Maker* and *A Wider View*

Poetry anthology: continued study

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length is a ...

Something "fragmented" means something ...

Which of the following quotations, taken from  'With Birds You're Never Lonely', conveys a sense of warmth onto nature?

The speaker is searching for a sense of completeness.

The speaker has underlying a sense of completeness.

The speaker senses nature feels incomplete.

In  'With Birds You're Never Lonely', Antrobus uses couplets that do not rhyme and that are not the same length. How could we interpret this?

Though there is arguably a cyclical structure,  'With Birds You're Never Lonely' exhibits a shift in which of the following from the beginning to the end?

a story where the narrative occurs in cycles

a story told from a third-person omniscient narrator

Which of the following is the definition of a cyclical structure?

The speaker finds comfort in the modern, urban world.

The speaker finds the modern, urban world an isolating experience.

The speaker finds nature solely intimidating and overwhelming.

Which of the following is an accurate summary of Antrobus' 'With Birds You're Never Lonely'?

Which of the following denotes a sense of lifelessness?

The continuation of the meaning of a line of poetry over onto the next is called ...

The word "stumbling" contributes to the idea that the speaker of Antrobus' 'With Birds You're Never Lonely' had a {{ }} experience in nature.

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Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Adult supervision recommended

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