Revisiting key quotes from Macbeth: Act 1 Sc 2 SOLDIER: "His brandish'd steel / Which smoked with bloody execution." The soldier's account of Macbeth's exploits in battle establish him as a fierce warrior capable of bloody violence. 1/

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Okay, time for our next ‘Power and Conflict’ thread. This time, we’ll be thinking about Seamus Heaney’s ‘Storm on the Island’ 🏝️⛈️ 🧵

Power and Conflict 'How are the power of humans...?' 3 alternative essay plans for this question, using a range of poems. Each plan includes: quotations, suggestions, analysis and an exploration of big and/or shared ideas. Check out the effects of war version too! Link below:

Right, time for our next ‘Power and Conflict’ thread. This time, we’ll be talking about Simon Armitage’s ‘Remains’ 🏦🔫 In particular, I want to talk about ‘Remains’ as a poem that is *about* the writing of war poetry. 🧵

Okay, time for our next ‘Power and Conflict’ thread. This time, we’ll be talking about Jane Weir’s ‘Poppies’ 🌺😔 In particular, I want to think about ‘Poppies’ as a poem in which different layers are flattened into one – like felt. 🧵

Help!! GCSE MACBETH I’m struggling to explain how and where bravery is presented in Macbeth. How could I get students to link Shakespeare’s messages to bravery?🙃

🕵️‍♂️📞AN INSPECTOR CALLS 🕵️‍♂️📞 An 11 page PDF of essay plans for key characters and themes. My students have these glued in on the left hand side of the books and then on the right hand side they make notes, zoom in and analyse. dropbox.com/s/8b0u0qb5prl0…

Okay, let’s do another thread on the Power and Conflict poems. This time, we’ll be talking about Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Tissue’ 🧻📚👷🏢 In particular, we focus on the power of paper and poetry, and the idea that some things are better if they *don’t* last. 🧵

🧵 In my interview with poet Beatrice Garland, she discusses her poem ‘Kamikaze’, delving into the inspiration behind it, the perspective it's written from, and how it relates to themes of power and conflict. #poetry #Kamikaze

How to Spend the First 5 Minutes if the Named Poem is 'The Charge of the Light Brigade': youtu.be/7skJGkfCNUY

Today I revisited Macbeth's conversation with Lady Macbeth in Act 3 Sc 2. This passage is VERY revealing and worth exploring in detail, and to glean some little-used quotes! This is from his "We have scorch'd the snake" speech: he complains about "terrible dreams". 1/

Right, time for our next thread on the poetry in the Power and Conflict cluster. This time, we are thinking about Carol Rumens’ ‘The Emigrée’. This time, I’m going to go through the poem sentence by sentence, and think about its ‘blurriness’. 🧵

How to Spend the First 5 Minutes if the Named Poem is 'Kamikaze' youtu.be/2AAKI9YD8Fg via YouTube

Kingship in Macbeth. (with love to Nikki for the inspiration!) There are 3 kings in the present of the play Macbeth, and others implied who will reign in the future. 1/

As promised, here are the fifteen threads – one for each of the poems in the Power and Conflict cluster – that we wrote over the last couple of months. Over 40,000 words in total, I think, so you might want to make yourself a cup of tea before diving in ...

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