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The Sea Eats the Land at Home Watching for Dolphins Coming Cetacean Homework one : Choose one of the following questions, and write a 1.5+ paper. Resubmissions possible. Due Wednesday 13 November, 2019 How does the poet memorably convey the experience of watching a natural event ? How does the poet memorably convey the experience of watching for dolphins ? How does the poet memorably convey the experience of watching whales ? How does the poet memorably convey the experience of a flood ? How does the poet memorably convey the experience of recognising the arrival of Spring? Eg : Introduction (reuse key words from question and explain the intents of your paper Paragraph one : the setting and the atmosphere / poetic techniques paragraph two : the speaker’s experience of the event (what does he pay attention to /seem to appreciate ? /poetic techniques paragraph three : what have we learned about the speaker (character/emotions/ outlook on l

Peter Reading’s “Cetacean” Poet Peter Reading was born on 27 July 1946 in Liverpool, England. He worked as a school teacher in Liverpool (1967-8) and at Liverpool College of Art where he taught Art History (1968-70). He was Writer in Residence at Sunderland Polytechnic (1981-3) and he won a Cholmondeley Award in 1978. His collection  Diplopic  (1983) won the inaugural Dylan Thomas Award.  Stet (1986) won the Whitbread Poetry Award and he was awarded the Lannan Award for Poetry in 1990 and again in 2004. In 1997 he held the Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. The collection  Marfan  (2000) was inspired by his tenure as Lannan Foundation Writer in Residence in Marfa, Texas, in 1999. Peter Reading was a highly original poet - his style was innovative and experimental, while his blunt outspoken tone and ‘grotty’ subject matter proved controversial. He was also incredibly prolific - from the mid-1970s, he produced almost one volume per year. His deeply

In order to better understand the grading scale I used when grading your Language papers on Wildlife safaris, do use this evaluation grill and try and understand how you can move up bands (for example, from Band 3 to Band 4): http://bestexamhelp.com/exam/cambridge-igcse/english-first-language-0500/2019/0500-s19-ms-21.php

Watching the dolphins, David Constantine poet reads poem https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=th56jeso6fc dolphins  in Greece https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=N3IDl7YFIjY   dolphin  watching from 2,39 https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=A2w4IzFjKzU   Our Pontonniers' handout: David Constantine b. 1944 This contemporary poet lives in Oxford, where he teaches at Oxford University. He is married with two children and has six grandchildren. "Watching for Dolphins" is a poem which appears in a book of poetry of the same name, published in 1983. He has published several other books of poetry as well as translations of European poetry, novels, short stories and non-fiction books. He is the co-editor of a literary journal, Modern Poetry in Translation. He has received many prizes for his literature and translations. source : https:// "David J. Constantine" Ben Wilkinson, 2009, literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/david-j-constantine, consulted 1