Today we are going to present the poem “Bird in the Classroom” by Colin Thiele. Before we go on, we will take a look at the title. The title has clearly answer us the question of the 5Ws, who, teacher and students; what, there is a bird fly over; where, inside the classroom; when, during the lesson. After looking at the title, we are going to read out the poem once. (Read Odd Number-Kennedy, Even Number-Richard) Now we are going to go over each stanza. The first stanza tells us, the students are losing attention to the lesson. As it written, the teacher speaks with a ‘ponderous monotone’, just like telling a bed time story to the class. For the first stanza the author used juxtaposition on ‘Melted and run together, desks and flesh as one.’ A great contrastive, and notifies the students are hardly stay focus to the lesson, slowly lie on the desk. Symbol is also applied the word ‘sea’ which means lost. Moving along to the second stanza, students are now asleep. Eyes are barely opened with heavy body lie against on the desk. Ears are closed, blocking the sound from outside. The attitude through the first and second stanzas gives to the reader as lack of energy or no hope. The next stanza is the shifting point, from pasting out to gaining live again. The key word of the shifting tone is “sudden”, it changes the whole atmosphere. On this stanza, it comes out the bird. And its voice is so beautiful that flow in the air, and uses metaphor to describe it. ‘Each note gleamed, like a bead of frost.’ The forth stanza is quite similar to the third, since it describes in more details on the voice. By uses analogy which compares between line 22 and 23 ‘But they sprang the heat like drops of ice.’ Also it employed simile, ‘like’ as a direct comparison. The fifth stanza, is basically summarizes the whole poem. Before the shift, the students are all down, ‘ears cocked, fading and chuckling’. But when the bird comes, it unlocked all the problems. As it written ‘Such...