rain in both poems, eg: in the first, the writer does not like the rain. He finds it dull, damp, grey and sodden • and he like being kept inside. In the second, he loves the rain; he finds it doesn’t all the heat ‘beautiful’ after Brian Lee sees rain as miserable and shows how it stops people from doing things • like games. Longfellow thinks rain is good because it gives water. He describes it as beautiful and welcome. Brian Lee as grey the first poem makes you feel depressed and it makes you think rain is bad, boring • and damp, The second poem makes you miserable: ‘sodden leaks, grey, smother.’ feel happy and it makes you think that rain is beautiful: ‘clatter, tramps, beautiful, roars, swift, gushes.’ Award 2 marks for answers that see a difference of opinion about the rain and make at least one specific contrast involving any one of the following points: welcome / unwelcome rain positive / negative • • vocabulary effect on author / reader: happiness / misery cite contrasting quotations • • reason for effect on author / reader: endless rain / long-awaited rain. • For example: they each think differently. One likes the rain, one does not. The writer who has • gets rain and never gets sun, while the other writer is the written ‘Rain’ probably often opposite and the writer who has written in has probably had a long ‘Rain Summer’ drought and thinks wonderful to see rain again while the other one is just bored it’s with the rain in the first poem, the effect of the rain makes you feel miserable and dull. • It’s described as if there are no good things to do but in the other one, exciting and a it’s relief in the poem it says grey outside, inside me but in in • ‘Rain’ ‘it’s it’s grey’ ‘Rain it says beautiful is the Summer’ ‘How rain!’ Award 1 mark for answers that make a simple negative / positive contrast between the two poems, eg: in one poem the poet likes the rain, in the other he did not • because they both have different things happening. One likes it, the other • doesn’t. up to 3 marks
rain in both poems, eg: • in the first, the writer does not like the rain. He finds it dull, damp, grey and sodden and he doesn’t like being kept inside. In the second, he loves the rain; he finds it ‘beautiful’ after all the heat • Brian Lee sees rain as miserable and shows how it stops people from doing things like games. Longfellow thinks rain is good because it gives water. He describes it as beautiful and welcome. Brian Lee as grey • the first poem makes you feel depressed and it makes you think rain is bad, boring and miserable: ‘sodden leaks, grey, damp, smother.’ The second poem makes you feel happy and it makes you think that rain is beautiful: ‘clatter, tramps, beautiful, roars, swift, gushes.’ Award 2 marks for answers that see a difference of opinion about the rain and make at least one specific contrast involving any one of the following points: • welcome / unwelcome rain • positive / negative vocabulary • effect on author / reader: happiness / misery • cite contrasting quotations • reason for effect on author / reader: endless rain / long-awaited rain. For example: • they each think differently. One likes the rain, one does not. The writer who has written ‘Rain’ probably often gets rain and never gets sun, while the other writer is the opposite and the writer who has written ‘Rain in Summer’ has probably had a long drought and thinks it’s wonderful to see rain again while the other one is just bored with the rain • in the first poem, the effect of the rain makes you feel miserable and dull. It’s described as if there are no good things to do but in the other one, it’s exciting and a relief • in the ‘Rain’ poem it says ‘it’s grey outside, inside me it’s grey’ but in ‘Rain in Summer’ it says ‘How beautiful is the rain!’ Award 1 mark for answers that make a simple negative / positive contrast between the two poems, eg: • in one poem the poet likes the rain, in the other he did not • because they both have different things happening. One likes it, the other doesn’t. up to 3 marks
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