1. Examine the image you have been
given.
Answer these questions:
• What can you see?
• What is the significance of the colours used, or the lack
of colour?
• Can you see any visual metaphors?
• What could this image represent?

2. On your stanza, annotate the following things:
Use your glossary for definitions of the underlined
words.
• Find the rhyme pattern (a/b, etc) and what could it suggest?
• How many quatrains are there and what’s the effect?
• Where is the refrain and what effect does it create?
• Is there any use of anaphora and what’s the effect?
• Where are the tetrameter lines? Where are the trimeter lines?
What’s the effect?
• Has epizeuxis been used? What’s the effect?
• Has Tennyson used any spondee? What’s the effect?

3. On your stanza, annotate the following
things:
• What happens in the stanza?
• Are there more verbs or adjectives? Why might this be?
• Is there a link between the descriptive vocabulary and
imagery?
• Who is narrating and what’s the effect?
• How would you describe the tone and why?

4. Find the other person/or people who have
the same stanza as you.
• Compare your annotations.
• Are they the same or different and why?
• Can you add anything else?
Key words:
stasis, monotony, stag
nation.

5. Can we put the stanzas in the
correct order to get a sense of the
narrative?

6. Homework:
• Due Tuesday 18th September 2012
• Write about the stanza you have been
examining, answering:
To what extent has Tennyson used
language to create a sense of stasis?

7. Homework:
• Due Tuesday 18th September 2012
• Write about the stanza you have been
annotating:
– comment on language used, the structure of the
stanza, the possible meanings and your
response/s to it.

8. Homework:
• Due Tuesday 18th September 2012
• Write about the stanza you have been
annotating:
– comment on language used, the structure of the
stanza, the possible meanings and your
response/s to it.

9. Homework:
• Due Tuesday 18th September 2012
• Write about the stanza you have been
annotating:
– comment on language used, the structure of the
stanza, the possible meanings and your
response/s to it.

10. Homework:
• Due Tuesday 18th September 2012
• Write about the stanza you have been
annotating:
– comment on language used, the structure of the
stanza, the possible meanings and your
response/s to it.

11. Homework:
• Due Tuesday 18th September 2012
• Write about the stanza you have been
annotating:
– comment on language used, the structure of the
stanza, the possible meanings and your
response/s to it.