Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins - how do the sounds of the words create the movement of water?

Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins

THIS darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the lake falls home.

A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth
Turns and twindles over the broth
Of a pool so pitchblack, féll-frówning,
It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.

Degged with dew, dappled with dew
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,
Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,
And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

Cargoes by John Masefield - how do the sounds of the words create the movement of the ships?

Cargoes by John Masefield

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,
Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,
With a cargo of diamonds,
Emeralds, amythysts,
Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack,
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road-rails, pig-lead,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.

Sample commentary on Shanghai Childhood: be sure you have a written copy of it

The writer's purpose is to look back on childhood in a nostalgic, sometimes rather comical way. It is incongruous to describe a 'mound` as having a 'summit'. This shows that to small children a slight incline in a garden seems like a mountain. The writer concedes that his memory is exaggerated in the phrases 'even at the time' and 'hardly matched': he acknowledges the 'splendour' of the houses round the corner, which are described as 'residences' rather than merely houses.

A comical picture of little boys is created. Their game is only running about in a garden and yet they are 'worn ... out' and are 'panting', in need of a rest. The gap between childhood and adulthood for the writer is shown in the words 'around six years old'; he does not have an exact memory because it was a long time ago. Nostalgia is created in his closing his eyes 'to bring back that picture', consciously trying to evoke the past. His parents' nostalgia for the England they have left behind is shown in their weak attempt to re-create an 'English' lawn; the inverted commas show their attempt is not entirely successful in the climate of Shanghai.

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Here is the sample commentary for assessment question 2. Make sure to make a copy of it.

Assessment 1 Sample Commentary 1.

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