Landscape and I: relationship with nature, personification and imagery

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Landscape and I By Norman MacCaig Learning Intention: Familiarise ourselves with the poem and develop our understanding of the poetic techniques used in the poem Success Criteria: Be able to interpret the themes in the poem and the way in which they are conveyed and analyse the effective use of poetic techniques. Numeracy Communication Literacy Leadership MESPS Wellbeing Starter• What do these images make you think of? • How would you feel if you were here? • Have you even been hiking in Scotland? If so, what did you enjoy and observe? Landscape and I Landscape and I get on together well. Though I'm the talkative one, still he can tell His symptoms of being to me, the way a shell Murmurs of oceans. Loch Rannoch lapses dimpling in the sun. Its hieroglyphs of light fade one by one But re-create themselves, their message done, For ever and ever. That sprinkling lark jerked upward in the blue Will daze to nowhere but leave himself in true Translation - hear his song cascading through His disappearance. The hawk knows all about it, shaking there An empty glove on steep chutes of the air Till his yellow foot cramps on a squeal, to tear Smooth fur, smooth feather. This means, of course, S...