Text 2

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Text 2 Eating Out by U A Fanthorpe

• Lesson ObjectiveTo apply literary terms to the
  poem
• To analyse the writers views

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The first time you ate in a restaurant...

• What are your memories of eating out as a child?

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Eating Out by UA Fanthorpe

• The narrator in the poem recalls being taken out
  to dinner as a child
• The parents instilled good behaviour and
  etiquette
• The father, in particular, teaches the narrator
  how to eat and introduces her to new food
• The narrator skips forward to her parents old
  age and recalls the last meal she ate with her
  father before he died at which he still took
  control despite being ill
• As her mother grows old, she becomes passive,
  which is a shock to the narrator in many ways
  the narrator has taken on the parent role.

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Structure

• How many stanzas are in the poem?
• What is the effect of the narrator using
  enjambment?
• Is there a rhyme pattern? What is the effect that
  is created?
• What is significant about the final stanza?
• What does this symbolise about the narrators
  feelings?

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Lexis

• Is the language formal or informal? Find
  examples.
• Is the language prosaic or poetic? Find examples.
• What is significant about the adjective heavy
  in the phrase He leaned heavy on my arm
• Find all the words in the lexical field of
  restaurants. Why has the writer used these words
  and what does it tell us about her relationship
  with her parents?

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In Conclusion

• Write a summary of the attitudes and values that
  are illustrated in the poem Eating Out.