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Read the following line.

‘Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear’


Can words crawl into your ear? This is an image The poet is trying to make an image of what she/he experiences. Now with your partner try and list out some more images from the poem.

Images mentioned in the poem are:

● And pranced and partied all night long


● And sang their same old Whatif song


● Whatif green hair grows on my chest?


● Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?


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Who is the speaker in the poem?

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With your partner list out the happenings the speaker is worried about.

 1

Why do you think she/he has these worries? Can you think of ways to get rid of such Worries?

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In groups of four discuss some more ‘whatifs’ that you experience in your day to day life and list them out.

(i) …………………………………………


(ii) …………………………………………


(iii) …………………………………………


(iv) …………………………………………


(v) …………………………………………


(vi) ………………………………………


(vii) ………………………………………


(viii) ………………………………………


And now write a poem of five or six lines with the ‘Whatifs’ that you have listed.