Who has the power in this

relationship?
 Remind yourself of the
poem ‘Pygmalion’s Bride’
What were your initial reactions
to it?
What do you think the poem is
about?
AO1
Objectives:
• To develop interpretations of
‘Pygmalion’s Bride’
• To develop connections between the
poems within ‘The World’s Wife’
 Pygmalion
• In the original • George Bernard
Greek Myth, Shaw took this
Pygmalion the myth and
King of Cyprus, transformed it
carves a female into a play
figure from a ‘Pygmalion’
statue of ivory. where a
• He falls in love with professor tries to
the statue and transform a
prays to the cockney flower
Goddess Venus seller into a lady.
to bring her to • This was later
life. transformed into
 What is the significance of
these words? What do they
make you think?
• Cold
• Thumbed, marbled
• Blunt, drowned, shout
• Dumb, clammy, didn’t shrink, statue
• Squeezed, would not, claws, jawed,
ice, glass
• Pliable, moan, begged, screamed
• Simple as that AO2
 How does the structure/use of
sound add to the meaning of this
poem?
• How many lines are there in each
stanza?
• How long are the sentences,
compared to the lines? Does this
change or stay the same?
• Do you notice anything else
significant about the sentences?
• What repeated sounds can you find
and where?
• Whereabouts do we see changes AO2
in
the structure/sound and WHY?
 On a scale of 1-10 how typical
is this poem of the collection?
Why?
Not at
all Very
Typical Typic
al
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

AO3
 Ideas? Attitudes? How is language How typical is this What is unique
What types of and structure, poem of the or unusual about
relationships? How used to create collection? (AO3) this poem?
are they meaning? (AO2)
presented? (AO1)

Circe

Thetis

Pygmalion’s Bride