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Hello, Baihua Mountain The August Sleepwalker Bei Dao

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Hello, Baihua MountainThe August Sleepwalker Bei Dao

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Objectives

• Gain good K&U of the poem

• Develop a thoughtful & valid personal response to the

poem

• To consider the poet’s use of imagery and his exploitation

of the connotations of words

• To consider the tone & atmosphere created in the poem

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Baihua Mountain

Beijing Trip.com describes Baihua Mountain as a “natural botanical garden, Baihua Mountain 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Beijing. The area has incomparable beauty, magnificent scenery and numerous wonderful sights. Renowned for superb natural scenery and large quantities of exotic flowers and rare herbs, Baihua Mountain is a heavenly place on earth.”

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Discuss

• What reasons can you suggest for the appeal of such a

place to a poet like Bei Dao?

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Baihua Wordle

• Experiment with Wordleof the poem eg alter maximum word count, change colour scheme

• What patterns of words can you identify?

• Consider the connotations of the words carefully

• Speculate: what might the themes of the poem be? The tone?