This week for reading we had to read poems. The poems we read were The Soldier Who Never Returned, Spirit Of ANZAC, In Flanders Field and Poem For Remembrance Day. Nazella and I worked together to find out the main idea and the evidence of what the main idea was. To help us find out about the main idea was think about the author's purpose, look at the title. look at the pictures, look at the first and last sentence and look for the repetition of words or phrases. A main idea means what the poem is about and the author's purpose. Our LI: for this task was to find a main idea of a poem.
I would like to carify that this poem, The Inquisitive Mind of a Child, as originally titeled Poppies by the author. The Author was an English Col. by the name of John F. Willcocks who wrote it in 2004 he died in 2008 at the age of 88. If you'd like to understand the meaning behind his writing, it's this. His father, Harold Willcocks was killed in WW1 from the after effects of being gassed. John was only one year old. So this is poem written by him, as he remebered questioning his own mother. John faught for England in WW2.
ReplyDeleteCol. John F. Willcocks was my grandfather.
Please edit to show the correct title with the author's name with his poem. Thank you.
Ruth Pattinson (previously Willcocks)