The Gypsies Evening Blaze by John Clare - ten activities

The Gypsies’ Evening Blaze
By John Clare
Activities to help explore and understand the poem.
The benefits include:

1. A close re-reading of each line of the poem.
2. Poetic notes – which draw attention to particular examples of poetic power or beauty.
3. Activities for the students to do which relate experience from their own life and imagination to particular aspects of the poem.
4. Some of the activities require the student to write an imaginative response and starters are provided to help start the process and ease the students in.
5. Questions are posed, designed to get the student to think about the poem with sample answers provided to show to them, either to compare to their own work or to provide inspiration.