Day 3

Gwen Harwood: Poems Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read the following poems:

The Lion’s Bride
Mappings of the Plane
Evening, Oyster Cove
Wittgenstein and Engelmann
A Quartet for Dorothy Hewett
‘Let Sappho Have the Singing Head’
A Valediction
A Little Night Music
The Sea Anemones
Death Has No Features of His Own
A Scattering of Ashes
Dialogue
Mother Who Gave Me Life

Content Summary for Teachers

The Lion’s Bride

A lioness makes a declaration of love to a lion.

Mappings of the Plane

The speaker moves through the plane, combining with nature.

Evening, Oyster Cove

The speaker watches the beach at night.

Wittgenstein and Engelmann

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and his friend the architect Paul Engelmann take a walk, making jokes with...

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