Facts about the poet
wrote empty house
Who is Stephen Spender?
Poem type
What is Free verse?
Setting
What is The speakers empty house?
The speaker
Who is A woman who gave birth to a child?
The house
What is The woman’s body
When the poet was born
What is February 28, 1909?
Imagery
What is ‘‘In the house, suddenly grown huge.” (Spender 3)
Point of view
What is First person?
Lines in the poem
what is 13?
The child
What is a loss of someone/something?
poets death
July 16, 1995
metaphor
What is “My body was the house” (Spender 12)
Tone
what is empty, sad, loss
Tense
What is past tense
Tidying away the toys
What is trying to move on?