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Expository Spoken Task – The Shark
*Jaws music* SNAP! Good morning fellow students and teacher. Today I will be reading my poetry analysis for “The Shark” by E. J. Pratt. The invited reading for this poem gives the reader a spooked feeling as it explains a shark in a slight depth.
The invited reading of this poem doesn’t really give the readers a feeling at all. Though it is describing a scary sea creature there is no clear feeling given off from the poem, other than that of the original spooky shark. The idea of the poem is to describe the appearance of the shark as he leisurely swims the harbour. The poem doesn’t have any direct meaning to life, but I feel for the shark as he doesn’t do anything, but everyone thinks he’s scary. Just like

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