Performing 'I'm an Orchestra' by Laura Mucha

Key learning points

1. In the poem ‘I’m an Orchestra’, Laura Mucha compares the emotional life of a human to an orchestra.
2. Poets might use devices such as repetition, rhyme or alliteration to enhance the sound of the poem read aloud.
3. A metaphor is a way of describing something by saying that it is something else.
4. Alliteration is when words that begin with the same sound are placed close together.
5. Marking up a poem for performance involves adding notes to guide delivery, emphasising elements like tone & pace.

Keywords

• Orchestra - a large group of musicians who play many different instruments together and are led by a conductor

• Rhyme - the similarity of sounds between the ending syllables of words, creating a musical quality and pattern

• Metaphor - a poetic device that makes a comparison between two things by stating that one thing is another

• Alliteration - the repetition of the same sound found at the start of words that come close together

• Marking up - the process of adding notes to guide delivery of a poem

Common misconception