Classwork+for+13th+December+2009


 * Classwrok covered on 13trh December 2009 is as follows**:

//Annotate and write an analytical essay on the following poem//:


 * OCTOBER DAWN**

October is marigold, and yet A glass ful of wine left out

To the dark heaven all night, by dawn Has dreamed a premonition

Of ice across its eye as if The ice-age had begun its heave;

The lawn overtrodden and strewn From the night before, and the whistling green

Shrubbery are doomed. Ice Has got its spearhead into place.

First a skin, delicately here Restraining a ripple from the air;

Soon plate and rivet upon pond and brook; These tons of chain and massive lock

To hold rivers. Then, sound by sight Will Mammoth and Sabre-tooth celebrate

Reunion while a fist of cold Squeezes the fire at the core of the world,

Squeezes the fire at the core of the heart, And now it is about to start.

//Ted Hughes//

**Essay Title**:

// Explore the methods used by Ted Hughes to describe the onset of Winter.

You should examine the following areas in your answer:

- theme - use of language and imagery - structural features to enhance meaning in the poem //