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August 6, 1945 – Alison FellAugust 6, 1945 – Alison Fell
• Learning Objective: To explore the poets use of imagery, vocabulary and form to convey the horror of a nuclear attack
What facts can we share from the What facts can we share from the starter activity?starter activity?
• The United States dropped the first (of only two ever used) atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945.
• More than 120,000 people were killed instantly and many more later succumbed to radiation sickness.
• More than 70% of Hiroshima was destroyed.
• The pilot of the plane was called Paul Tibbets and the plane, ‘Enola Gay’, was named after his mother.
Enola GayEnola Gay
As you watch the film, consider the following questions...
What do you think about the tone of the reporting?
What is the attitude of the pilot?
What is the visual effect of the explosion?
As we read the poem, bear in As we read the poem, bear in mind the information that we mind the information that we
have learnt about the Hiroshima have learnt about the Hiroshima bomb.bomb.
What is being described?What is being described?
In the Enola Gayfive minutes before impacthe whistles a dry tune
Later he will saythat the whole blooming skywent up like an apricot ice.Later he will laugh and trembleat such a surrender, for the eyeof his belly saw Marilyn’s skirtsfly over her head forever
On the river bank,bees drizzle overhot white rhododendrons
Later she will walkthe dust, a scarlet girlwith her whole stripped skinat her heel, stuck like an old shoe sole or mermaid’s tail
Later she will lie downin the flecked black ashwhere the people are becomeas lizards or salamanders and, blinded, she will complain:Mother, you are late, so late
Later in dreams he will lookdown shrieking and see ladybirds ladybirds
What is being described in each stanza of the poem?
Why is the girl ‘scarlet and blinded’?
Who is the ‘he’ who is described in the poem?
Read through th
e poem again.
Read through th
e poem again.
Highlight any examples o
f the fo
llowing.
Highlight any examples o
f the fo
llowing.
Simile, metaphor, e
njambment, repetition, use of
Simile, metaphor, e
njambment, repetition, use of
colour.colour.
Images in the poemImages in the poem
• Select five words or phrases from the poem that you think are particularly striking.
• Draw them into your books and label them with your word or phrase.
• E.g.
““the eye of his belly saw the eye of his belly saw Marilyn’s skirts fly over her head Marilyn’s skirts fly over her head forever”forever”
Ext: Are th
e images t
hat you draw lit
eral
or metaphoric
al?
What interpretations c
ould you image
have in th
e context o
f the poem?
Sharing your workSharing your work
• Share the images that you have drawn with the person sitting next to you
• Why did you depict the images in the way you have?
• What was the poet trying to convey by using these words? What was her message?
• E.g. How does the phrase ‘apricot ice’ help us imagine the explosion?
As a cla
ss, ca
n we find any
As a cla
ss, ca
n we find any
links b
etween th
e images
links b
etween th
e images
that are descr
ibed?
that are descr
ibed?
Try to answer this questionTry to answer this question
• How does Fell use words and imagery to show the horror of the Hiroshima bomb?
– Try to write three strong paragraphsTry to write three strong paragraphs– Remember to refer directly to examples in the Remember to refer directly to examples in the
poempoem– Be sure to name the technique used and explain Be sure to name the technique used and explain
its impact on the readerits impact on the reader
Finally...Finally...
In your pairs, try to come
up with an image of your
own to describe the
falling of a nuclear bomb
Stick your post-it onto
the whiteboard
Whose description is the most powerful? Why is this?