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Write an analysis of the poem “Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster (2006) by John Agard – pair assignment Student hours: 3 hours. You get time in class to work on it. The tasks in this assignment includes the following elements a) write about the poem “Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster” AND b) correct the subject-verb concord in the sentences below. : TASK A a. Write a short summary of the poem pp. 26-27 in Worlds of English (max 100 words). Write in present tense. The poem “Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster” is about the English language and many of the words that have come to be part of the English dictionary. The poem emphasizes that a lot of the words which we consider to be English have a foreign origin. John Agard gives in this poem numerous examples of words in the English dictionary that actually belong to a non-English culture and vocabulary. He describes the day where these words return to where they came from, leaving English to fend for itself. b. Analyse the poem. You can use the attached guidelines for an analysis of a poem. Part of your analysis must explain how John Agard plays with words and how he describes the ‘behavior’ of the words. General The text “Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster” is a prose poem written by John Agard in 2006. Setting The exact setting is not given and neither is the date. We don’t get a real sense of our
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