The poem is about a child imagining what it would be like if they were a giant. Some of the things the child imagines doing as a giant include standing on their tiptoes to paint the sky, gathering snow from mountains to paint blossoms, and using trees to fashion giant paintbrushes. The child believes being a giant would allow them to appreciate nature's beauty on a grand scale through their ability to create vast works of art using the landscapes and elements as their canvas and paint palette.
The poem is about a child imagining what it would be like if they were a giant. Some of the things the child imagines doing as a giant include standing on their tiptoes to paint the sky, gathering snow from mountains to paint blossoms, and using trees to fashion giant paintbrushes. The child believes being a giant would allow them to appreciate nature's beauty on a grand scale through their ability to create vast works of art using the landscapes and elements as their canvas and paint palette.
The poem is about a child imagining what it would be like if they were a giant. Some of the things the child imagines doing as a giant include standing on their tiptoes to paint the sky, gathering snow from mountains to paint blossoms, and using trees to fashion giant paintbrushes. The child believes being a giant would allow them to appreciate nature's beauty on a grand scale through their ability to create vast works of art using the landscapes and elements as their canvas and paint palette.
The poem is about a child imagining what it would be like if they were a giant. Some of the things the child imagines doing as a giant include standing on their tiptoes to paint the sky, gathering snow from mountains to paint blossoms, and using trees to fashion giant paintbrushes. The child believes being a giant would allow them to appreciate nature's beauty on a grand scale through their ability to create vast works of art using the landscapes and elements as their canvas and paint palette.
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If I were a Giant
1. a. If I were a giant I wonder if I
could stand on my tiptoes and paint the sky. i. In these lines, what does the poet ‘wonder’? The poet wonders if she would be able to stand on her tip-toes and paint the sky if she were a giant.
ii.Give another word or expression for ‘fashion’.
Another word for fashion is craft or design.
iii. If the poet were a giant, how would she fashion paintbrushes? If the poet were a giant, she would fashion paintbrushes from trees.
b. I’d stride to the mountains and gather the snow to paint
snow-white blossoms where blossoms should grow. i. Which word does the poet use to describe the walk of a giant? The poet uses the word stride to describe the walk of a giant.
ii. Why does the poet want to gather the snow?
The poet wants to gather snow to paint snow-white blossoms where blossoms should grow.
iii. In these lines the poet imagines painting blossoms. List five other things the poet imagines she could paint. The poet imagines she could paint the sky, daisies, sunrise, golden beaches and the sun.
2. Where does the poet imagine getting these colours from?
a. black – shadows; b. white – snow; c. yellow – corn; d. pink and red – autumn leaves;
3. List two examples of personification from the poem.
Two examples of personification used in the poem are: a) cover the sun as she set off to bed; b) I’d hunt all the shadows that hide from the light
4. Why does the poet chose to use the word ‘splash’ when she describes how she would paint a sunrise on the sky? The poet chose the word splash because at the time of the sunrise, it usually looks like a lot of colour has been splashed onto the sky.
5. What inspires the poet to dream about being a giant?
Nature, and the wondrous things she does, inspires the poet to dream about being a giant. 6. Would you say this is a good poem? How does this poem help you to see the world with new eyes?
We take many of the wonderful things mentioned in this poem for granted because we see them every day, such as the sunrise, snow-white blossoms and golden beaches. However, the colourful imagery and language in this poem helps us to see them with new eyes again. The poem gives us a chance to exercise our powers of imagination, and see nature in an artistic way. These are some of the reasons why we could say that this is a good poem.
