Chung Cheng High School (Main)

Secondary 1 Literature in English 2023

Term 2

Name: Guo Shouzhen( 23 ) Sec: 1DL Date: 4 May 2023

Poem Annotation
First Contact contact lenses replaced her glasses which she
had worn all her life, a new phrase in her life.
The day the optician unframed my face : hide: lack self confidence or shy
metaphor red: there is a change in her feeling, spectacles
and took away my childhood: mean nerdy, grown vain
I would no longer hide behind glass;
I would wear eyeliner and wink: aesthetics
rhyme
at boys with smiles and piles of math textbooks.
her age is 14 to 17
contact lenses
I balanced my new life on the ball of my finger,
its translucent rim and pooled blue rainbows,
visual imagery
I said "This will make me pretty."
My spectacles rolled their lenses
and dozed in the bottom of my bedside drawer. personification: annoyed they got replaced
bottom of bedside drawer, neglected and ignored

The first day I wore contact lenses,

my eyes glittered. But no one noticed,
looking right through me with their 20/20 eyes.
Did not get the attention she wanted, ignored.
She wants to stand out but now looks the same as
every one as they all have perfect eye sight.
Hattie Grunewald

What is the subject matter of the poem?

What are the persona’s feelings in stanzas 1-3 in the poem?

Stanza Feelings Quotes to support the Elaboration on quotes

feelings
Stanza 1 hopeful
excited
happy

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Stanza 2 confident
thrilled
joyous

Stanza 3 disappointed
puzzzled
sad
troubled

A Suggested Vocabulary List on Feelings and Emotions

Happiness Hurt Confusion Loneliness

Delighted Abused Baffled Abandoned
Ebullient Aching Confounded Black
Ecstatic Anguished Confused Deserted
Elated Crushed Flustered Empty
Energetic Devastated Shocked Forsaken
Enthusiastic Destroyed Speechless Marooned
Euphoric Disgraced Stunned Neglected
Excited Forsaken Taken-aback Shunned
Exhilarated Humiliated Trapped Rejected
Overjoyed Ridiculed Ambivalent Outcast
Thrilled Belittled Puzzled Alienated
Zippy Troubled Disconcerted Alone
Gleeful Wounded Disturbed Dejected
Happy Annoyed Perplexed Estranged
In high spirits Let down Troubled Lonely
Lively Neglected Distracted Oppressed

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Contented unhappy Uncertain Uncherished

Fine Undecided Blue
Satisfied Unsure Melancholy
serene withdrawn