ACTIVITY

1. Read the poem.

2. Look up words in the dictionary

3. Who is the writer?

4. Check what the merlion is. Find a photo to illustrate your post in your blog.

5. Watch the following videos and take notes to analyse the poem in detail.

6. Can you say this poem is about love? If so, love for what/whom?

Answers:

2. Dappled: with spots

crests: top of a wave

bud: a flower

teased: make fun of

ivory: elefant tooth

sinews: tendon in meat

runes: characters of an ancient alphabet

heralding: anounce/message man

amid: in the middle of

shroud: a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.

beheld: see/ovserve

sheen: shine

haunches; human anatomy

squall: wind storm

crackling: chispiant

snugly: combortable

sapling: young tree

swaddled: rub up tightly

3. The writer of the poem is Amanda Chong. She is from singapore.

4. The merlion is mythical creature with a lion’s head and a body of a fish.

6. Yes, the poem is about love. Is about love towards the country Singapure.