Spotting patterns

Task (10-15 minutes)
Read back through ‘Patagonia’:Identify some of the patterns in the poem and consider the impact that they have on you as a reader. What do they do to the tone of the poem and to your feelings as you read it?Make notes in your journal and share some of your ideas, below. Don’t forget to like or reply to any comments you find interesting.I said perhaps Patagonia, and pictured
a peninsula, wide enough
for a couple of ladderback chairs
to wobble on at high tide. I thoughtof us in breathless cold, facing
a horizon round as a coin, looped
in a cat’s cradle strung by gulls
from sea to sun. I planned to waittill the waves had bored themselves
to sleep, till the last clinging barnacles,
growing worried in the hush, had
paddled off in tiny coracles, tillthose restless birds, your actor’s hands,
had dropped slack into your lap,
until you’d turned, at last, to me.
When I spoke of Patagonia, I meantskies all empty aching blue. I meant
years. I meant all of them with you.‘Patagonia’ from Selected Poems ©Kate Clanchy,
A-level Study Boost: Unseen Poetry and the Creative Process

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