worldlit

• Literatuur
• HBO
• Studiejaar 2

Home

by Ömer Uçar, Rick Arts, Thomas Seinen, Laura Nederend and Nina Brom

pre-reading

what do you think about when you hear the word 'HOME'?

What is Home to you?

Is Home limited to one place?

Yes

No

it depends

When would you change your Home?

In the context of this course, what do you think 'Centre and Margin' mean?

while reading

Before you start...

You will get to hear the poem 'Home' by Warsan Shire.

After hearing, there is a written version of the poem aswell.

Use the written version to do the while-reading exercise.

you might want to get a pen and paper to make this easier for yourself.

watch until 2m 50s

Find the following things:

Find an example for the following literary devices:
Personification

Simile

Metaphor

Anaphora

Enjambement

www.facinghistory.org

an example of personification

an example of simile

an example of metaphor

an example of anaphora

an example of enjambment

The sixth and seventh stanza contain much shorter lines and more enjambment than the other stanzas. what is the relation to the text and what effect does this have?

(answer in next slide)

answer from previous slide

Centre and Margin

Centre and Margin

this is the idea that some countries are the centre, often the western world and  former colonizers.

and countries that were colonised are the margin, often the non western countries, Asia

Centre and Margin

the concept of centre and margin could only begin when people decide that other people are not the same

e.g. people in Africa do not have the same culture, values etc. as we have, meaning they are savage and we are civilised.

Post-reading

What is the margin group of this poem?

How does globalization relate to this poem?

How did you feel after reading this poem?

Do you have any questions for us?
About the topic, poem etc?

Thank you for making this lesson, you are now fully prepared to rock during our World Literature lesson!