Hi, how are you? I'm good. Thank you. Okay, great. Okay, let's do today's class. I'm just gonna to find the power point for today. Sorry, I'm just having a look for the PowerPoint. Give me one moment. Okay, so today we are going to be analyzing a poem and it's called search for my tongue by sujada. But okay, so today we're going to learn how to analyze poetry and what kind of things we need to look for, why poetry is important and how it's slightly different from analysing a story or writing a story. So today's learning objective is to practice English literature poetry analysis skills through studying poems. So by understanding the poem through a close study of it, to be able to show an understanding of the poet's thoughts and feelings within the poem, and to be able to comment on the language and the structure of the poem. Okay, I great. So first of all, as a starter activity, understanding culture, can you have can I give you five minutes to think about what do you know about the word culture? What does it mean to you? What does it represent? What does it mean to people around you? And how would you describe it? So maybe me write down a paragraph about culture, maybe your own culture too, and what you understand about what culture means. Does that make sense? Can you hear me? Yes, a little bit, Aggy. Okay. Can you hear me clearly now? Yeah, it's like clear are, but it's just like a little luggy little laggy. Okay. Is there any way we can fix that just because I feel like every time I explain something, it gets a little bit lost. So it's good if I can just explain it clearly. Yeah maybe not really. Like I've I can I can like hear it. It's just sometimes like my brain just like swishes off a little and then and then I have to like go back in and okay, okay, I understand like you must be tired and like you're just trying to understand just maybe like if we can just make sure that we're listening and understanding that or no problem though. Okay, so I'll explain that. Get no issue. So just about culture, can you just write me a few sentences on where you understand the word culture and what it means and what does it mean to you? That's all they need to do. Okay, I'll give you five minutes. No problem. Yeah, I'm done. Okay. Great. Can you tell me what do you understand about culture? It's not really like a paragraph is just it's just like one sentence. Yeah, that's okay. I said culture is like the way people live, including like their food, music, traditions and beliefs. It shapes out like people think, Yeah, 100%. Yeah. And what do you understand about your own culture? What does it mean to you? Do you think my culture, do I even have a culture? Yeah. Everyone has ns their own culture. Even if you're not living where you're originally from, that is your culture. The one that you have brought to England and the way you've mixed it with other people, that is your own culture that's special to you. I have no idea. Like like if you still eat the food, kind of what kind of food? Maybe food? Yeah, I know. Like Yeah and the language that you speak conlike that some people might not get is like in my culture, like they they just, they sometimes eat like dumplings for breakfast. I know like not normal people, but like people that aren't from like my area doesn't actually like do that a lot, maybe none the times. Yeah, Yeah 100%. And Yeah, that's really good. Okay, perfect. Okay. So this theme and kind of thinking about culture and where we're from links to the poem that we're going to analyze today and it's called search for my tongue. Now first of all, the title tells you obviously it's not actually someone searching for their tongue. It's supposed to be the same or it's it's a metaphor for finding maybe your own voice or your language. And Yeah, I've heard. Have you analyzed that school? No, it's just like someone was doing that in the poetry deck like like last year, but they didn't get things involved. I just heard it because, okay, that's good. Okay, that's really good. Okay, great. So what I want you to do is read through the poem by yourself. Okay? So I want you to read through the poem, try and understand it, and then we're going to read through it together and discuss. But I'm gonna na give you like a few minutes just to read it through yourself because I think that will help you just understand and like have a look at it by yourself. And then afterwards, we're going to have a discussion on it and I'm going to give you a task, okay. Yeah, okay, okay. I'll give you a few minutes. Take as long as you need just to understand the words. Maybe you have an understanding of what's going on. What does it mean? What does the author mean by one when he's talking? What just happened? Okay. Yeah, I know. Basically he's saying that like I only read the. One of us has very bad WiFi. No, I think the PowerPoint just got shut off. Yeah, I wait. Did you just close by what, Mike? No. Oh Yeah. One of the maybe it's me. My WiFi is really bad, I think. Okay. It just closed. Automai know. Like that's okay. We can we can move on. It's okay. It works now, so don't worry about it now. Okay. So have you read through the entire poem? No. Okay. So I need, I need, I need you to have a look at it by yourself just for a few minutes because it's important to everything. Look at the whole thing. And it's like, you know how like sometimes how do you say like sometimes the things like them. The. Like if feel like don't have your tongue you like struggle to speak you maybe it's like like they don't have like the rights to speak and they're like, Yeah, like I don't know anything else maybe Yeah. Okay, well, it's good that you've read through it. Let's read I'm gonna read it out to you now and then we're gonna have a look at it and then I'm gonna to give you a task to get on with by yourself. So search for my tongue sujta. But so actually originally the poem was in Gujari, which is an Indian language, but they've translated it. So the poem goes, you ask me what I mean by saying I have lost my tongue. I ask you what what would you do if you had two tongues in your mouth and lost the first one, the mother tongue and could not really know the other, the foreign tongue? You couldn't not use them both together, even if you thought that way. And if you lived in a place you had to speak speak a foreign tongue, your mother tongue would have rocked, rot and die in your mouth until you had to spit it out. I thought I spit it out, but overnight, while I dream, it goes back. A stamp of a shoot grows longer, grows moist, grows strong veins. It ties the other tongue and knots. The butd opens. The butd opens in my mouth. It pushes the other tongue aside. Every time I think I've forgotten, I think I've lost my mother tongue, it blossoms out of my mouth. So this one uses the metaphor of two tongues to show, first of all, how this person is a little bit lost, that they have two different tongues, two different languages and two different cultures. And maybe you can relate to this, because I can relate to this too. I am originally from Pakistan, but obviously I live in England. And so my grandparents probably felt like this when they were first moved to England, because they, their mother tongue, their mother language, the first language they knew was in Pakistan. But all of a sudden in the uk now they have to speak English. So it's a little bit difficult then to figure out who am I without my original language? If I can't speak my original language, then am I truly my own person? Are people going to really understand me? And it shows how, okay, they lost their original language. They lost their original tongue, and it rotted away. And it uses, like the metaphor of it rotting. And then sometimes they dream about how it will grow back and theybe able to use it again. So you can kind of think about how it's a really, really important message and moral message on how we can understand people who have moved from other countries and who speak different languages because just because we don't understand their language doesn't mean that they aren't from that place or they don't have a different identity. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. And you might relate to that in your own family because you're from different places or you lived in different places. So Yeah, Yeah, okay. Now, what I want you to do is I want to give you five minutes to write down. I want you to collect five different phrases that I want you to analyze in the poem that you think stick out to you, that are maybe a metaphor or a similmile, a particular type of language or descriptive language that was used, sentence structure, something like that you can use to analyze and show the message of the poem. So for example, I'll give you one example. Really good. You ask me what I mean by saying I have lost my tongue. So this one I would talk about the sentence structure. The sentence structure uses a full stop at the end here to show how sudden and surprised and kind of Yeah how aggressive and sudden the question is that someone is asking me why I've lost my tongue. Like sometimes poets use full stops to show things are really suddenly ending or very like aggressive. So it shows that people asking me why I've lost my tongue is quite sudden. So that would be one example. But you can also analyze different like descriptive words or sentence structures to show different things from the message of the poem. So can you collect five different phrases for me and analyze them the way that I analyzed it? Five sentences. Okay. Yeah or quotes or even you can focus on a couple words, just something that would give you a good analysis on the poem. I actually have a question. There's like one sentence that that doesn't actually make sense. Okay, which one? And it says, you can use them together even if like you so that way you cannot not I think is correct. Sometimes in poetry, the way the writer would write it isn't actually like a story or a speech or something away. Someone would talk normally is actually more like a song or a song or a chant. It's it's less of something that you would actually say in conversation, but it's more like something to get a message across about something and more like a song, if that makes sense. So actually, even if it if even if it doesn't really sound like something you would say in a normal conversation, as long as it's correct, it actually is okay for the poet to talk like that. They just might have a specific style of talking. Yeah okay. Doing really well. Just try and find five different sentences and then we'll have a look together and then I'll give you some more ideas on how you can analyze a poem. But I want na just see how you're gonna to do it by yourself first. Oh, I know your mother tongue will rot rot and die in your mouth until you had to spit out. It means like like your mother language, you're going like suddenly be bad it until you like speak it again. Yeah. Okay, I'll give you and then I'll give you some time to think of four other ones by yourself. Yeah. Okay. And can you write them up? And I want Yeah and then next to each sentence or quote, can you write a sentence explaining why you think it's important or what it shows? Yeah. Article cool. I think I'm done. Be great. Sorry, I just need for that curtain is very bright. Yeah, so hold no, I thought I split it out, but overnight, well, I dreamed so she said her mother language in like like she speaks her mother language in her sleep. And then girls longer girl. Girls moist goes strong. Girls strong veins. It's like the language gets like better and better and it ties the other tongue in not knot. Your language gets worse. Yeah, perfect. Do you have anything else? No. Okay. So how many other ones did? You couldn't find anything else? No, not even one or two more things because there's so many things, especially in the last paragraph. No, I don't know what like they mean by the buds open or anything like that. Okay, that's okay. So in the last paragraph, it's kind of showing about how, okay, the person's old tongue, their mother tongue, which is their first language, rots away and goes away. But then all of a sudden, in a dream, it's growing back and it's becoming maybe better and stronger. So maybe they could symbolize them finding their language or finding their identity again, or maybe people are finally accepting them, or maybe it's showing how that can only happen in a dream, but actually, it's not actually happening in real life. And so will we ever be able to accept people who speak two different languages? Yeah, that's kind of the message. So it shows how it's growing back and it's comparing it maybe to a flower growing and blooming. Yeah, if that makes sense. Okay. Yeah, it does perfect. Okay, so hmm how am I supposed is there any way you can take a picture of this poem so that I can move on to the next slide? Okay, can you take a picture of it and then what I'm gonna to do is then gonna show you these questions, okay, can you answer the questions according to the poem? Okay, Yeah I know it's a bit annoying because usually the poems will have the numbers of each line next to it. So that's where it has the lines been. Might just have to count them. Okay, and just try your best. If you can't if you don't know the fully the answer to something, just try your best. That's the thing. And then we'll check back in at 135. Okay, Yeah or I'll give you a bit of 138. We will check back in. Okay. I'll give you a few more minutes to finish. Now I'll give you two more minutes just to finish off. Undone would great. Okay. So what did you get for the first question? What do you think the title is referring to? What experiences do you think the author may have lived? What sort of feelings do you think the author has about the situation? It refers to the poet trying to find her first language, which she feels she is losing while living in like a new country. She probably experienced moving between cultures and feeling torn, torn and I don't know, on between languages. And she seemed rather confused. Yeah, that's great. Well done. Okay. Line one, what other pronouns used in this line? What tone do they have and to what effect? So what did you get for this? Did you understand what it meant? Yeah. The pronouns are I and my. It's like first person. And then they make the line feel like personal and serious. She was like, speaworried about losing her language and makes the reader like. Understand maybe how important it is to her. Yeah, that's great. That's really good. And also something I noticed as well as in the first line, like the one that runs over to the second with the full stop, there's I and then there's also you. And so there's like a contrast between the I and the you. And it kind of creates a contrast between people who do speak two languages and people who don't, maybe people who don't accept, people who are different, and then people who are on the other side, if that makes sense. So crecreates like a harsh divide between you and I. Yeah, okay. Are you okay? Yeah, okay, right. What did you get from lines three to seven? The poet uses repetition, especially of like words about her tongue and language. This emphasizes her struggle and like makes a reader feel like how strongly she like scared of years of losing her mother. Language. Yeah, 100%. That's really good. Okay, what about lines ten to 14? What it again? Oh Yeah. It creates a frustrated and anxious tone. Wait, where's the other sentence going? Oh, it's on the other page now. Like okay, the poet uses like short and simple sentences and repetition of like tongue or like my tongue to show like how scare is kind of repetition of the last sentence. Never mind. That's show her fear of like losing her language like like a original one. This makes the reader feel the tension struggle she experienced between her mother tongue and English, or like French, Spanish. Yeah, okay, great, perfect. Okay, we can skip over this second standard question because we didn't read the Gujari one, but Yeah was bisure Yeah because I think it's the the thing about poems and and even writing written in different languages, it's just really hard because actually if you think about it, like what like for example, Serena, what language do you speak? Like what were you're originally from a Chinese Chinese. So like if there's Chinese poems and Chinese books, right, that some famous authors have written, they can be translated into English. But actually there's no direct translation. That's going to be exactly the same as a language, because a language, if you think about it as more than words, is actually a culture and a feeling behind it. And so the way that your family understands Chinese, I'm not going to understand that in the way the same way if it's translated to English, because it represents a culture and a feeling, right? So that's why it's really hard to look at poetry in different languages. For example, at school, I analyzed this book that was originally Russian and I didn't I wrote essays on it and I analyzed it, but at the end of the day, I didn't read it in Russian and I not Russian. So I can't fully understand what it meant to the author. Yeah. So that's really important to consider even though we're analyzing this poem in English, it might not actually fully reflect what was going on in the original language. But anyway, so for lines 24 to 28, what words are used here for effect and what image does it convey of her foreign tongue? The English tongue, alien and foreign, are like used to let describe her English tongue. This creates like the image of it feeling like strange and separated from like her actual mind. Yeah 100% definitely perfect. Okay. And then the final lines, what image and tone is created in the final line of the poem? What method has been used and to what effect? The final line creates a hopeful and proud d bone, showing that her motongue has returned. Yeah. Great. Okay. Okay. Can you choose one quote from the poem just to finish off that sums up butts, but the author her entire feelings the most for the entire poem and write an explanation that includes analysis of the language or methods used in that quote. Wait to like choose one quote from the poem that you think sums up the entire poem like represents exactly what she's feeling and thinking the entire poem something or just one of the important. Okay, wait, can you surprise me? Surprise me. Don't tell me. Very surprising. I mean, it's not surprising, but just choose one and then can you analyze it for me and then read out your analysis? So try to do that in the next few minutes just before the lesson ends. Okay, let me let me check the poem again. Yeah, undone. It's kind of like obvious. Okay. What's the what did you analyze? The sentence that summarizes like the whole poem is I have lost my tongue in my mouth. It shows the struggle of losing her mother language and the fear of losing part of her identity. Yeah, definitely. And what technique do you think was used in the. Yeah, I forgot about that. That's okay. In the sentence. And like any technique that you think was use, like any structural technique or any particular tool that the writer used in the whole throughout the whole poem? No, in that sentence that you chose, because the question was asking me to do that. Oh, metaphor. Because she didn't actually like lose her tongue. It's just like it's just to represent her two different languages. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, definitely. Okay. Okay, perfect. Okay. So we're getting to the end of the lesson. I'm just going to have a look. I was sent a file. It's because I asked for for the homework at like the end. So I just I just quickly did it in like like five minutes. I just read her through and I just did it and I haven't finished it. So like okay, I just did like I still have like two questions. That's fine. And I'm also gonna send you a different homework. It's about it's not about this topic, it's about something else. It's we did it already. It's about the openings of the story and the narrative writing. So I'm just going to send you that worksheet as well. Okay okay okay. Thank you so much, Serena, thank you. Thank you. Bye bye bye.