Food for Thought

What does Gandhi mean?

Do you agree? Why? Why not?
How does this apply to the our lives?
 Tuesday 3rd October

‘Father Returning Home’

L/Os
- To explore the poem ‘Father Returning Home’ by
Dilip Chitrie
- To consider the difference between a poet, a
narrator and a speaker
Who creates
your culture?
STTIFF POETRY ANALYSIS
What is the difference?
AUTHOR

POET

NARRATOR

SPEAKER
Make sure that you remember the difference.
AUTHOR- The writer of a piece of writing

POET- The person who has written the poem

NARRATOR- The reteller of an entire story, used to describe the voice the
speaker that tells us a prose story

SPEAKER- The person the reader is supposed to imagine is talking, used to

describe the voice that situations and feelings are given to us with in poetry
How do you think the speaker feels about
the father?
AND

How does the poet present the speaker’s

feelings?
 POINT EVIDENCE TECHNIQUE ANALYSIS

How does the Evidence Technique How does the Why does the
speaker feel evidence/ speaker/ poet
about the technique you want us to read
father? have identified this?
support your (Consider ideas
point? or feelings)