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Recommended Edexcel-style question Explore how the writer presents the effects of pollution in this poem. In your answer, you should consider the writer’s: descriptive skills choice of language use of form and structure Support your answer with examples from the poem The writer’s choice of language: • the metaphor ‘poisoning down’ presents the rain as harmful and suggests that pollution has changed something natural into something dangerous • the personification ‘rain eats away the skin’ gives the rain a violent and destructive quality, making the effects of pollution seem frightening • the contrast between the positive language ‘clean and pure’ and the negative language ‘poisoning’ and ‘eats away’ highlights the change from a healthy natural world to a polluted one • the informal words ‘dotty’ and ‘crazy fibs’ create a humorous and conversational tone, while the natural imagery of ‘flowers’, ‘lakes and rivers’ creates a vivid picture of the cleaner world Granny remembers The writer’s ...
