The Maori People - Korero

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Appealing to the senses table;

Sense; Description

Hearing

Touch

Smell

First thing is know what its about

Purpose

Ideas

Tone

Atmosphere

Audience

Structure

Techniques

Timelessness of rain and water and how it is apart of us without us needing to have any sensory reaction.

First person- addressing the rain as ‘you’ almost like a eulogy.

Rain – personified as a central part of them

Define, disperse, how does water define them? Water disperse when you die. Its also bigger than them as an idea.

Even if they don’t have a sesory response to rain they would still know its there, you get that funny feeling that someones looking at you.

Small holes in the silence, contrasting with being big at the end.

Tone: How does it make you feel? Hows does the language make you feel? How doyou know?

Techniques.

Change out a wrd from steady drum roll sound and see if its as effective. And then they will go that’s really effective because. Specific as opposed to generalised.

Pick their favourite bit of the poem.

Tuwhare’s poem defines who we are in parts of our life because they are around us and beyond our senses without definition or an explanation of what it is that influences us. It draws the reader into the setting – the calm, quiet space and it concludes the introspection of the poem by drawing the reader back to this setting. This is also shown in surface of poem as it gets deeper, it develops into a deep level of introspection and philosophical thought. I think this poem is well written, it relies on the reader to use their own experiences through simile. It is a beautiful poem in it’s simplicity