--- title: Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures», a lesson of the english course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A poem packs a lot into a few words, and you read it with your ears and your eyes. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / Reading poems: meaning, sound and pict… # Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures Lesson 25 of the english course of Mova's primary school: 25 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/0/) — A poem packs a lot into a few words, and you read it with your ears and your eyes. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/2/) — The speaker is the voice in the poem. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/3/) — Poems paint pictures with words, called imagery. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/5/) — The tiger is not on fire: its orange stripes seem to glow like flames in the dark forest, so it looks powerful and dangerous. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/6/) — William Wordsworth wrote «I wandered lonely as a cloud»: a simile, comparing himself to a cloud with «as», drifting along all alone. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/7/) — Sound matters too. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/9/) — Read it aloud and the quick beat sounds like wheels rushing on rails. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/12/) — Some poems ask big questions. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/13/) — Christina Rossetti wrote: «Who has seen the wind? / Neither I nor you». - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/14/) — We never see the wind itself, only what it does to the leaves. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/15/) — Some poems are nonsense on purpose: Edward Lear's «The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea / In a beautiful pea-green boat» isn't realistic at all, it's fun. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/16/) — And lots of poems don't rhyme; that is called free verse. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/17/) — Chloe in Cardiff says, «This poem's lush, but I don't get it» (lush is Welsh slang for lovely): liking a poem before you understand it is normal, so read it again. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/18/) — The speaker is the voice that talks in a poem. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/19/) — Imagery means pictures made with words. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/20/) — A simile compares two things using «like» or «as»: lonely as a cloud. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/21/) — Rhythm is the beat of a poem, and it can match the topic, like a fast beat for a rushing train. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/23/) — The mood of a poem is the feeling it gives, such as happy, sad, scary or calm. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/24/) — Free verse is poetry without regular rhyme; poems use line breaks, imagery and rhythm, not only rhyme. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/25/) — Nonsense verse is silly on purpose, written for fun and for the sound of the words. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/26/) — Rhymes can change with accent: in many northern English accents «cut» and «put» rhyme. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/27/) — Rossetti's poem «Who has seen the wind?» says we know the wind is there by what it does. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/28/) — The poems by Jane Taylor, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edward Lear are old and free for anyone to share. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/29/) — A stanza is a group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in a story. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/30/) — Slang: «lush» (Wales) means lovely; «mid» means average. - ← previous: [Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/) - next →: [Sentences: capital letters, full stops and the four types](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/26-sentences-capital-letters-full-stops-and-the-four-types/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/)