• Learning Objective: To understand and explore the use of personification in the poem ‘City Jungle’.

AIMS:

- To understand the meaning of Personification

- To read and discuss the ‘City Jungle’.

- To write our own poems using personification.

Starter: Read through the poem ‘City Jungle’ by Pie Corbett and underline any words or phrases

that stand out to you.

What is personification?Personification : when things or objects are

referred to as if they are human.

Things that are personified are described as though they have senses, moving actions and feelings like humans and animals.

e.g. The paper was dancing through the air.

The stones were skipping along the pavement.

The wind whispered.

CITY JUNGLE: Rain splinters town.

Lizard cars cruise by; their radiators grin.

Thin headlights stare shop doorways keeptheir mouths shut.

 At the roadsidehunched houses cough.

 Newspapers shuffle by,hands in their pockets.The gutter gargles.

 A motorbike snarls;Dustbins flinch.

 Streetlights bare their yellow teeth.

The motorway’s Cat black tongue lashesacross the glistening tarmac of the night.

By Pie Corbett

 

Title: Personification in ‘City Jungle’

1. The poet is describing the City as though it is a ___________

2.How does the poet describe : -

• A motorbike

• The streetlights

3. Write down one example of alliteration from the poem?

CITY JUNGLE:Rain splinters town.

Lizard cars cruise by; their radiators grin.

 Thin headlights stare shop doorways keeptheir mouths shut.

 At the roadsidehunched houses cough.

 Newspapers shuffle by,hands in their pockets.The gutter gargles.

 A motorbike snarls;Dustbins flinch.

 Streetlights baretheir yellow teeth.

The motorway’s Cat black tongue lashesacross the glistening tarmac of the night.

By Pie Corbett 

Rain splinters town

Lizard cars cruise by

Their radiators grin

Thin headlights stare

Shop doorways keep their mouths shut

At the roadside hunched houses cough

Newspapers shuffle by

The gutter gargles

A motorbike snarls

Streetlights bare their yellow teeth

The motorway’s cat-black tongue lashes across the glistening black tarmac night

Personification• Write your own personification poem

(think of setting, each choose an object and personify it and then put the sentences together to make a poem)

• Sounds: screamed, screeched, whispered, yelled,

Movement: ran, danced, skipped,

• What is Personification?

• What have you learnt today about the poem ‘City Jungle’?