Key learning points

1. ‘No. 115 Dreams’ is a free verse poem; it contains five verses and a repeated refrain.
2. ‘No. 115 Dreams’ contains several examples of personification.
3. Rooms and objects are describing family members or events that occurred in the house.
4. A poem can have multiple meanings and interpretations; each person’s response can be different and unique to them.
5. We can respond to a poem by writing a personal response to it.

Keywords

• Imagery - the use of vivid and sensory language that appeals to the reader's senses, creating vivid mental pictures and enhancing the emotional impact of the poem

• Personification - a way of describing a non-living thing as if it acts or feels like a human

• Interpretation - the process of understanding and assigning meaning to a poem

• Personal response - reflections that we make about a poem after reading or listening to it

Common misconception