We've highlighted some of the words in the poem and duplicated them
for you in the box below the poem.
We'd
like you to read through the poem again and decide which word classes
the emboldened words belong to. We have chosen central examples of the
different word classes, so in theory you should breeze through this task.
Easy peasey!
Daylong this tomcat lies stretched flat
As an old rough mat, no mouth and no eyes. Continual wars and wives are what Have tattered his ears and battered his
head.
Like a bundle of old rope and iron
Sleeps till blue dusk. Then reappear
His eyes, green as ringstones: he yawns wide red,
Fangs fine as a lady's needle and bright.
A tomcat sprang at a mounted knight,
Locked round his neck like a trap of hooks
While the knight rode fighting its clawing and bite.
After hundreds of years the stain's there
On the stone where he fell, dead of the
tom:
That was at Barnborough. The tomcat still
Grallochs odd dogs on the quiet,
Will take the head clean off your simple pullet.
Is unkillable. From the dog's fury,
From gunshot fired point-blank he brings
His skin whole, and whole
From owlish moons of bekittenings
Among ashcans. He leaps and lightly
Walks upon sleep, his mind on the moon Nightly over the round world of men
Over the roofs go his eyes and outcry.
Ted Hughes
Now "Drag and Drop" the words below
into what you think are the appropriate "word class" boxes [click
done when you have decided].
