11ENG Unfamiliar Texts Poetry

First impressions

My first impression about this text is that it is about a memorable event of a child that has lost his first tooth. She talks about when she waves goodbye to the boat leaving the ocean which she infers the first tooth to leave the mouth.

Vocabulary Work
a. fossick, moored, alveolus

b.  fossick:   to search
     moored:  make fast(a boat) by attaching a rope or cable to an anchor.
     alveolus: the bony socket for the root of the tooth.

Making connections

We are normally meant to be growing older from 11 to 12 but the author is referencing from dr who and the bible of Lazarus becoming younger.

Point of Change
1. Stanza 3
2. Stanza 7
3. In the first 3 stanzas, the author talks about how looking (or fossick) for shells and how the boats start to float away (the tooth getting ready to leave the alveolus).
4. The two words that I think help contribute to the atmosphere in the first 3 stanzas are

Language features
1.
Alliteration: When we wave goodbye
Simile: You are 11 teeth old and grown, like Lazarus
Adjective: Across polished floors
Listing: starfish, pipi and paua
Metaphor: Your gums are an ocean of blood.
                  Tooth's a boat
2.
Adjective - Across polished floors - This helped create a better image

Personification - I'll show you how it can rest safely upon its starboard - This helps create the image of a tooth lying on this side resting.

Metaphor - Your gums are an ocean of blood. - This draws attention to the gums and how it creates an image of blood pouring out

3. Extended Metaphors
Until the tide goes out
To yachts moored the marina

4.
it helps the reader understand that losing a tooth compares really well with a boat because sometimes it is very calm and relaxed and sometimes it can be a very rocky ride.