{"id":503,"date":"2015-12-16T13:07:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T12:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/?p=503"},"modified":"2016-01-14T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:14:02","slug":"poetry-keeping-orchids-by-jackie-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/2015\/12\/16\/poetry-keeping-orchids-by-jackie-kay\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry – Keeping Orchids by Jackie Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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taken from https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Butterfly_Orchid_(Crazy_Backlight)_(5792522843).jpg<\/p>\n

1.\tExplain how we get a sense of the speaker\u2019s uneasiness in lines 1-12.
\n2.\tWhat is the speaker\u2019s attitude about herself (line 7-16) and how is it suggested?
\n3.\tWhat impression do we get of the mother\u2019s feelings about her own life (lines 19-28)
\n4.\tWhat do you think the speaker is really saying in the last two lines?
\n5.\tThis poem is about a first person experience. Think of another Kay poem which uses this style and show how it compares and contrasts with this poem in its use of techniques.<\/p>\n

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taken from https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Butterfly_Orchid_(Crazy_Backlight)_(5792522843).jpg 1. Explain how we get a sense of the speaker\u2019s uneasiness in lines 1-12. 2. What is the speaker\u2019s attitude about herself (line 7-16) and how is it suggested? 3. What impression do we get of the mother\u2019s feelings about her own life (lines 19-28) 4. What do you think the speaker … Continue reading Poetry – Keeping Orchids by Jackie Kay<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[7071,136],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher","tag-jackie-kay","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}