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Poem: My Hero
Poem: My Hero
1. A poem:
a) a piece of writing
b) written in groups of lines called stanzas. A stanza is like a
paragraph in a story.
c) express thoughts and feelings of the poet
d) has a literal and a figurative meaning, literary devices such as
metaphor, personification, simile and so on.
2. Synopsis:
a) The poem is for both children and adults.
b) The poem is about a childs admiration for his father.
c) The persona (the child) sees his father as a heroic figure filled
with courage and bravery, and has the ability to chase away
all things bad to the child.
d) However, the last two lines of the poem shows the personas
curiosity and puzzlement because the heroic father is afraid of
a spider. In fact, the personas mother has to get rid the
spider.
5. Setting:
a) Setting of Place:
- Where is the poem set?
- Not specified; only the bathroom is mentioned.
b) Setting of Time:
- When is the poem set?
- Present day.
7. Themes: The main idea in the poem that the writer wants the
readers to understand
a) Love for parents:
- To the child, the parents are his heroes, especially the
father. He looks up to his father and says plenty good
things about his father. He is full of praises for his beloved
father. The things that he himself is afraid of, like ghosts
and monsters, he knows that he can depend on his father
to keep him safe from them.
b) Language:
- The language used in the poem is simple and
straightforward.
c) Literary Devices:
i. Repetition: Words or phrases that are repeated to
stress an important point
- He not afraid of (four times)
- My dads as brave as a dad can be (twice)
Column A Column B
1 rate A to show or establish the truth
2 dead of night B the frame of human bones
3 horrors C to get rid of
4 telly D a time when it is most quiet, usually in the middle
of the night
5 skeletons E to give value or worth to something
6 defeat F to feel disturbed or uncomfortable
7 upset G something very frightening
8 prove H to overcome a challenge or problem
9 remove I short form for television, usually referred to by the
British
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