Understanding how Hood presents the past and present in 'I Remember, I Remember'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can explain how Hood presents his past and his present in 'I Remember, I Remember'.
Key learning points
- Hood's poetry reflects some Romantic ideals - nature and the innocence of childhood.
- Hood's poetry also reflects the more realist ideas of Victorian poetry.
- Hood's adult life was plagued with illness, perhaps why he is so wistful for his childhood.
- Hood's poem is nostalgic, remembering his happy times as a child.
- There is also a mournful tone to Hood's poetry; he is melancholic that he will not feel that joy again.
Keywords
Belonging - a feeling of being happy or comfortable as part of a particular group
Nostalgic - a feeling of pleasure and also slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the past
Melancholic - expressing feelings of sadness
Romanticism - an artistic movement from the late 18th and early 19th century, focused on emotions and nature
Realism - a genre of literature that presents ordinary day-to-day experiences as they occur in reality
Common misconception
That a poet can only be a part of one literary movement.
Often, we can see poets as referencing more than one literary movement and that can help us understand the poem.
Teacher tip
It would be useful for pupils to share their ideas on how the poem relates to ideas of belonging, as that will help pupils to conceptualise where the poem fits with the anthology.
Equipment
You will need access to a copy of the Edexcel Belonging anthology for this lesson.
Content guidance
Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Typically, light imagery such as the "sun" generally creates a __________ atmosphere.
Q2.We typically think of birds as symbolising ...
Q3.'A feeling of being happy or comfortable as part of a particular group' is the definition of .
Q4.'Lack of knowledge or information' is the definition of .
Q5.The Romantics believed that humans ...
Q6.The Romantics __________ the idea of childhood.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.In 'I Remember, I Remember', Hood presents the speaker's childhood in a __________ manner.
Q2.In Hood's 'I Remember, I Remember', the speaker presents their present, adult life in a __________ manner.
Q3.Which of the following quotations from Hood's 'I Remember, I Remember' shows Romantic ideals?
Q4.'A genre of literature that presents ordinary day-to-day experiences as they occur in reality' is the definition of .
Q5.'Expressing feelings of sadness' is the definition of .
Q6.'A feeling of pleasure and also slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the past' is the definition of .
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