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Please Mrs Butler' is a poem by Allan Ahlberg. It's a conversation between a student and a teacher about a naughty boy called Derek Drew. Here's a worksheet and a lesson plan from Sandy Millin to help you use it in class The Fairies" by William Allingham In Irish literature and folklore the faeries are a " mischievous bunch. They have been entrusted with the care of nature and watch out for the forest. However, they are good at making mischief for mankind. Mankind is the enemy for the faeries and forest dwellers because man serves to disrupt their lives by . hunting and searching for things that are the faeries Fairies were known to steal away babies in the night. The poem talks about the little girl who was stolen away and had died from grief. The fairies live for an endless amount of time, far longer than a man, so they don't understand that the child had died. They .believe she is sleeping so they make her a comfortable forest bed and watch over her One of the ways that the faeries protect themselves and the forest as well as making mischief is by planting the thorns shrubs. They keep mankind out but when they fail to do so, a man wakes up with them injuring him in his bed. The faeries put them there so .that the man will not go back to the forest glen .In the movie "Willy Wonka" the first lines of the poem are recited by Gene Wilder Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold This piece is made up of four stanzas containing a variable number of lines. They range in length from fourteen to six lines in length. There is no consistent rhyme scheme but there are a number of random end rhymes such as “.and” and “-ay” throughout the poem and it is written in irregular iambic pentameter ”Summary of “Dover Beach Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold is dramatic monologue lamenting the loss of true “ Christian faith in England during the mid 1800’s as science captured the minds of the public. The poet’s speaker, considered to be Matthew Arnold himself, begins by describing a calm and quiet sea out in the English Channel. He stands on the Dover coast and looks across to France where a small light can be seen briefly, and then vanishes. This light represents the diminishing faith of the English people, and those the world round. Throughout this poem the speaker/Arnold crafts an image of the sea receding and returning to land with the faith of the world as it changes throughout time. At this . point in time though, the sea is not returning. It is receding farther out into the strait Faith used to encompass the whole world, holding the populous tight in its embrace. Now though, it is losing ground to the sciences, particularly those related to evolution (The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published in 1859). The poem concludes pessimistically as the speaker makes clear to the reader that all the beauty and happiness that one may believe they are experiencing is not in fact real. The world is actually without peace, joy, or help for those in need and the human race is too . distracted by its own ignorance to see where true assistance is needed anymore Song of the Worms

Thesis In “Song of the Worms”, the poet uses shifts throughout the poem to show the tendency of humans to form a hierarchy, with those at the top who oppress those in inferior .positions We learn gradually that those at the bottom of the hierarchy become resentful and .desire violent change Bliss and Innocence At the start of the poem, the "worms" seem to be peaceful and accepting of there place .in society Tone: Innocent We know the philosophy of boots, their metaphysics of kicks and ladders. We are afraid " " of boots but contemptuous of the food that needs them . The worms seem harmless and powerless besides there contempt of the foot...