📖 Part 1: Read the Poem

WALT: We are learning to identify and analyse language features in poetry.

"Mirror of Change"

The mirror whispers secrets soft and low,
Reflecting faces I no longer know.
Time's river rushes, rapid as the rain,
Washing away my childhood's golden chain.

My voice cracks like autumn leaves that fall,
While memories dance and shimmer on the wall.
The future beckons, bright as morning dew,
A butterfly emerging, bold and new.

I stand between two worlds, both strange and dear,
My heart a compass spinning, unclear.
But in this mirror's honest, silver gaze,
I glimpse the person I'll become someday.

🔍 Part 2: Identify Language Features

1. Find and write down ONE example of personification from the poem:

2. Which of these is a metaphor from the poem?

"rapid as the rain"

"My heart a compass spinning"

"bright as morning dew"

"like autumn leaves"

3. Find TWO examples of alliteration in the poem:

Example 1: _________________________________

Example 2: _________________________________

4. What does the simile "Time's river rushes, rapid as the rain" suggest about time?

Time moves slowly and peacefully

Time moves quickly and powerfully

Time is gentle and calm

Time stands still

5. The phrase "childhood's golden chain" uses imagery. What type of imagery is this?

Visual (sight)

Auditory (sound)

Tactile (touch)

Olfactory (smell)

✍️ Part 3: Analysis and Creative Response

6. Explain what the mirror symbolises in this poem about growing up:

7. The poet uses the metaphor "A butterfly emerging, bold and new" to describe the future. Write your own metaphor for growing up or change:

8. Extension Activity: Create two lines of your own poetry about identity or change, using at least ONE language feature (simile, metaphor, personification, or alliteration):

Success Criteria: