Refer to the first stanza and described the appearance of the field mouse
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Refer to the first stanza and describe the appearance of fieldmouse ?
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Answer:1. The Field Mouse by Gillian Clarke<br />
2. Listen to the poemDraw what you see<br />
3. The structure of the story<br />The first stanza sets the scene- hay making.<br />The second stanza- a mouse is killed as a result<br />The third stanza- Clarke’s views on the world and how awful it is<br />
4. The language<br />There is no rhyming structure or set rhythm structure. <br />It is filled with metaphors to disguise a darker meaning<br />There are many references to war, and other violent imagary<br />
5. The context<br />This poem was inspired by the late 1990s Bosnian war and is relevent to all wars<br />The title refers to the field mouse in the second stanza that is killed as a result of the hay making<br />The title suprises readers as they would not expect a poem with that title to be about war.<br />
6. Look at the poem in front of youFind quotes relating to a mouse being killed and highlightFind quotes relating to the war and highlight in a different colour<br />
7. Quotes relating to the mouse<br />Summer, and the long grass is a snare drum<br />Its wave breaks before the tractor blade<br />His hands a nest of quivering mouse<br />Its two black eyes sparks burning<br />We know it will die and ought to finish it off<br />The star goes out in its eye<br />Before day’s done the field lies bleeding<br />
8. Quotes relating to the war<br />Summer and the long grass is a snare drum<br />The air hums with jets<br />Far from the radio’s terrible news<br />We can’t face the newspapers<br />The air stammering with gunfire, my neighbour turned<br />Stranger, wounding my head with stones<br />
9. Finally<br />Think about… <br />How the poet uses metaphors and the title to distract you from the darkness of the theme<br />How you wouldn’t expect a title with The Field Mouse to talk about something as horrific as war<br />How you took this poem – as a story of a mouse, or a story of man?