1. Learning Questions: WHAT IS JOHN CLARE THINKING AND FEELING IN ‘SONNET’? HOW DOES HE SHOW THESE THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS?

2. GCSE Eng/Eng Lit COURSEWORK EXAMS Original Writing Media Shakespeare 20 th Century Drama (play) Prose Study (Novel) 3 Speaking & Listening Assessments Eng Paper1 Sec A: Questions on Non Fiction & Media texts Sec B: Writing to Argue Persuade or Advise Eng Paper 2 Sec A: Other Cultures Poetry Sec B: Writing Inf/Ex/Descr Lit Paper: ‘Of Mice & Men ’ And Poetry (Heaney & Clarke) Lang: 40% Lit:30% Lang:60% Lit:70% S K I L L S 20% of the 40%

4. ‘ Sonnet’ By John Clare

7. Remember… How to annotate?

8. Sonnet I love to see the summer beaming forth And white wool sack clouds sailing to the north I love to see the wild flowers come again And mare blobs stain with gold the meadow drain And water lillies whiten on the floods Where reed clumps rustle like a wind shook wood Where from her hiding place the Moor Hen pushes And seeks her flag nest floating in bull rushes I like the willow leaning half way o'er The clear deep lake to stand upon its shore I love the hay grass when the flower head swings To summer winds and insects happy wings That sport about the meadow the bright day And see bright beetles in the clear lake play

12. Your question: SOME OF THE POETS TALK ABOUT DEATH AND LOSS. WRITE ABOUT 3 OF THE POEMS, COMMENTING ON HOW THEY EXPLORE THESE THEMES. TRY AND USE SOME QUOTES IN YOUR ESSAY.