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Sunday 4 January 2015

Sun is laughing - Grace Nichols

Sun is laughing
This morning she got up
On the happy side of the bed,
Pulled back
The grey sky-curtains
And poked her head
Through the blue window
Of heaven,
Her yellow laughter
Spilling over,
Falling broad across the grass,
Brightening the washing line,
Giving more shine
To the back of a ladybug
And buttering up all the world.

Then, without any warning,
As if she was suddenly bored,
Or just got sulky
Because she could hear no one
Giving praise
To her shining ways,
Sun slammed the sky-window closed,
Plunging the whole world
Into greyness once more.

O Sun, moody one,
How can we live
Without the holiday of your face?

Grace Nichols (born 1950) Guyana & UK

17 comments:

  1. i do that in trinity. i lovee it. veeeeery niceeeeeeeee poem sis

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  2. do you know what the stanza in this poem is?

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    1. A stanza (in any poem) is the same as a verse. This poem has three stanzas.

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  3. What does sulky mean in that poem?

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    1. HI. Thanks for your question. This poem anthropomorphises the sun, i.e. describes the sun as if it has human feelings and emotions. So sulky here means that it became bad-tempered and resentful when no-one praised it for shining.

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  4. What does the "grey sky - curtains" mean

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    1. The lines "Pulled back / The grey sky-curtains" are what you need to look at. Think about the sun appearing from behind the "grey sky-curtains"...

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    2. Look at stanza one which words rhyme?

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    3. What does it mean when she say , how can we live without the holiday of your face

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  5. Sun slammed the sky-window closed.

    What is figure of speech is

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  6. Setting was like what? Please help

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  7. What are rhyming words from this poem

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  8. Next. Look at the words below 6aken from the 1st stanzas of the poem

    Happy blue yellow laughter brightening shine

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  9. Next. What does the poetess mean when she says to the sun,'how can we live without the holiday of your face?'what figure of speech is this

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  10. Can you compare the sun with something in three ways?

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  11. wow this rlly helped my daugter

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