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Poetry11th January 2011

Bob Dylan I see, I see lovers in the meadowI see, I see silhouettes in the windowI'll watch them 'til they're goneAnd they leave me hangin' onTo a shadow.

I'm sick of love, I hear the clock tickThis kind of love, ah, I'm love sick.

Sometimes the silence can be like thunderSometimes I wanna take to the road and plunderCould you ever be trueI think of youAnd I wonder.

I'm sick of love, I wish I'd never met youI'm sick of love, I'm tryin' to forget you.

Just don't know what to doI'd give anything toBe with you.

I'm walkin' through streets that are deadWalkin', walkin' with you in my headMy feet are so tiredMy brain is so wiredAnd the clouds are weepin'.

Did I hear someone tell a lie?Did I hear someone's distant cry?I spoke like a childYou destroyed me with a smileWhile I was sleepin'.

I'm sick of love that I'm in the thick of itThis kind of love, I'm so sick of it.

I see, I see lovers in the meadowI see, I see silhouettes in the windowI'll watch them 'til they're goneAnd they leave me hangin' onTo a shadow.

Symptomsby Sophie Hannah

• Read the poem individually

• Underline any words you don’t understand

You must be able to show understanding of a poem through deconstructionYou should be able to analyse the effect of punctuation in the poemYou could evaluate the layers of meaning in the poem

Read through again as a class• List the symptoms of love listed in the poem

and categorise in terms of physical, material, psychological etc.

Physical- bodily

Material- things

Psychological- in the mind

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You must be able to show understanding of a poem through deconstructionYou should be able to analyse the effect of punctuation in the poemYou could evaluate the layers of meaning in the poem

How is punctuation used to structure the poem?

You must be able to show understanding of a poem through deconstructionYou should be able to analyse the effect of punctuation in the poemYou could evaluate the layers of meaning in the poem

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You must be able to show understanding of a poem through deconstructionYou should be able to analyse the effect of punctuation in the poemYou could evaluate the layers of meaning in the poem

Sophie Hannah uses lots of commas in the poem ‘Symptoms’. The effect this has is…

E ff e c t o f P u n c t u a ti o n

You must be able to show understanding of a poem through deconstructionYou should be able to analyse the effect of punctuation in the poemYou could evaluate the layers of meaning in the poem

• How can life be better than it was before?

You must be able to show understanding of a poem through deconstructionYou should be able to analyse the effect of punctuation in the poemYou could evaluate the layers of meaning in the poem