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Read the two poems, Teacher by Carol Ann Duffy and Change by Dave Calder. In both of these
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Write about the poem Toacher by Carol Ann Duffy, and its effect on you.
You may wish to consider
• what the poem is about and how it is organised
• the ideas the poet may have wanted us to think about
• the poor's choice of words, phrases and images and the effects they create
• how you respond to the poem
Teacher
When you teach me
your hands bless the air
where chalk dust sparkles.
And when you talk,
the six wives of Henry VIII
stand in the room like bridesmaids,
or the Nile drifts past the classroom window,
the Pyramids baking like giant cakes
on the playing fields
You teach with your voice,
so a tiger prowls from a poem
and pads between desks, black and gold
in the shadow and sunlight,
or the golden opples of the sun drop
from a branch in my mind's eye.
I bow my head again
to this tattered, doodled book
and learn what love is.
Carol Ann Dully