Poetry - The Listeners by Walter de la Mare

In this lesson, we will learn about the poet, Walter de la Mere, and read the poem 'The Listeners' for the first time. We will then think about our first impressions of the poem and what we understand the poem to be about.

In this lesson, we will identify vocabulary that we do not know the meaning of. Then, we will look at some strategies for working our the meaning of those words. Finally, we will practise this skill for some of the words in the poem.

In this lesson, we will learn key strategies for answering retrieval and inference questions and apply these to answer questions about the poem.

In this lesson, we will look at the structure of the poem and the poet's choice of language. We will then think about some of the key phrases in the poem and think about their effect on the reader.

In this lesson, we will discuss some of the themes in the poem. After this, there will be an opportunity to write our own poem using similar themes to the ones identified in 'The Listeners'.