Chapter 7 Geography lesson How did the teacher see sweet-scented jasmine?
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The teacher brought the two-dimensional world of the maps to life, helping the pupils to see places 'where the green leaves of the orange trees burned' and enabling them to see what he could in his 'mind's eye' when he imagined houses with 'Sweet-scented jasmine clinging to the walls'
The poem "The Geography Lesson" by 'Brian Patten' is about the poet's geography teacher who always dreamt of visiting different places but could never make it.
When the poet was a student, years ago, he had a teacher who used to tell his students of his dream to sail to places that he had heard only in maps.
The teacher was a poor man and he could never sail to his dream places, he probably died unexpectedly. After the teacher's death, the poet went to those places that the teacher longed to visit.
[ The literary devices used in this poem are - personification in mind's eye, aliteration in sweet-scented and school's stranglehold, epigram in but a lesson he never taught and metaphor in ocean's glass - clear and blue. ]
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