8D Poetry Homework

Read the poem below:

Lost in a place
That doesn't seem to care
So old and bleak
The rain beats down
The winter is haunting
It chilled to the bone
Darkness cocoons* me
As the light shines in
Warming my soul

*cocoons- covers over

Write a comment about the poem, completing the following questions:

1. What do you think this poem is about? Why?

2. What is your favourite line in this poem?

2. Give the poem a title that fits with the mood of the poem.

Please write your name at the end of your comment.

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We now have blogs set up for each key stage and over the next few months, we hope to add all kinds of useful things to help you in your English studies.

More importantly, we want you to start getting involved and participating in our exciting, online English community!

To start with, we invite you to post your favourite quotations from literature (poems, books, plays...) and comment on what you like about them.

"A word after a word after a word is power." from Spelling by Margaret Atwood.

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