Too Messy For Nessie Analysis

Some of the materials that will be used to expose the students to Scotland further, will be the map of Scotland and the map of Loch Ness. The class will participate in a read aloud of “Nessie” by Richard Brassey, a book about the legend of the Loch Ness Monster. Upon reading the legends the students will review the components of a legend and these will be posted in the classroom. To teach about poetry, the teacher will use the poems “Too Messy for Nessie” by Donald Nelson and “I Think I’m Related to Bigfoot” by Kenn Nesbitt. Both of these poems display the free verse poetry style, which will encourage students to explore writing poetry in free and unrestricted way. The poems will be displayed in the classroom on an anchor chart or projector and printed out for each student, presenting the poems in different forms will help different learners. After reading each poem an anchor chart that describes the components of a free verse poem will be …show more content…
Although these poets were born in different parts of the world and write about two different legends, the legends they chose are extremely similar. Both poets chose to write about their country’s folklore and make it kid-friendly. The poems are similar, they both validate the existence of these creatures and refer to them as a part of daily life. I believe that Nelson’s poem has a deeper meaning at the end that encourage people to leave Nessie alone, this could be interpreted as an indirect attempt to encourage people to respect wildlife and their habitat. In the other hand I don’t believe that Nesbitt’s poem has a deeper meaning and that it is intended as just a funny poem. This is a great way to show students how poems could be about the same topic, in the same style and still have different meanings or no meaning at all. These poems both display creativity and great writing skills, that students could mimic when writing their own