Reading and responding to ‘Who Has Seen the Wind?’ by Christina Rossetti
I can give a personal response to the poem and give some evidence to justify my ideas.
Reading and responding to ‘Who Has Seen the Wind?’ by Christina Rossetti
I can give a personal response to the poem and give some evidence to justify my ideas.
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Key learning points
- 'Who Has Seen the Wind?' is a short, simple poem that explores the invisible and mysterious nature of the wind.
- Personification is describing a non-living thing as if it is a person.
- The poem uses rhetorical questions to demonstrate the mysterious nature of the wind.
- The structure of a poem is the way it is ordered, including its pattern of lines, verses and rhyme.
Keywords
Repetition - the repeated use of sounds, words, phrases or structural elements that are repeated for emphasis or for a particular effect
Personification - describing a non-living thing as if it acts or feels like a human
Rhetorical question - a question asked that does not expect an answer, but rather to make a point or create emphasis
Elusive - something that is difficult to catch, find, or achieve, often because it is quick or hard to grasp
Common misconception
Children may think rhyming words have to have the same spelling of the repeated sounds.
Explain that rhyme is repeated sounds, not spelling. Highlight the rhyming sections of the rhyming words within the poems. Look at the different spellings. Generate further rhyming words and identify the same or different spelling patterns.
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