Thursday 20 August 2015

If I go west from here.


We have chosen to look at a poem by local poet Greg O'Connell. The poem
has a West Coast feel to it. These are the things we 'noticed'

  • That punctuation is not important 
  • There are (mostly) 3 lined stanzas
  • The 'Frame' has 2 parts
    • If I go...If I go...If I go... When I go...
    • You will see me in...feel me in...know me in...
  • The first stanza has a metaphor (sea blue mine) which is linked to another (coalface)
  • The second line of the first 2 stanzas start with verbs
  • A preposition (beyond) is repeated on lines 2 & 3 of the 3rd stanza
Link to the poem in drive

Here is Skye's poem. What do you think?

Wednesday 5 August 2015

The DRAFT Conversation

Today we looked at budding up and talking through the DRAFT process to make changes to our writing... (hopefully) for the better.