Is the wind a threat? Why? Which of the words “bellies” and “drags” are the more negative or more positive? Does it protect or does it restrict? The answer might be that it may do both. How do we feel about “shed(s)”? Why would you want to put a balloon into a shed? What about big “montgolfier” type balloons? Is a “narrow” shed positive or negative. More questions, but these don’t have to come from the teacher. More than what it might mean, what does it suggest? The word “bellies” may be a problem: it is clearly a verb, and while we know what our “belly” is we might not have thought about turning the noun into a verb.
Positive? Negative? Why might the “mind” be like a “balloon”? It's a great way to start.ĭiscussion can start with what we think and feel about “balloons”. The following poem works with pupils of almost any age at secondary level. We need to sharpen our curiosity about people and the world about us, and poetry particularly helps us in this.Ībove all, perhaps, poetry is an art form and a game, played by rules (though these may be deliberately broken). It makes demands on our attention, whilst often deliberately ignoring some of our (the reader’s) implicit needs (the need to know who? what? why?). Different ages, cultures, and societies cause poetry to be sometimes difficult to comprehend, which is why close reading depends on the same skills that make a good detective: alertness in observation ability to piece together clues and sympathy or empathy with others. Part of the difficulty is that it is often hard to get on to other people's wave lengths. In short, poetry touches on all those things which make us human and curious about other human experience. There is often some difficulty to be encountered because poetry can be deeply personal it can be suggestive more than stated it can conceal as much as reveal. Poetry by its very nature usually demonstrates language which is concentrated, highly organized and often packing a punch well above its weight. The easiest way to start looking at how “close reading” works is by looking at some very short poems.
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