Sorley Maclean

"Their sons and daughters are a wood"

• Hallaig

• Kinloch Ainort

• An Autumn Day

• Shores

Only the sharp ______ of your beauty,

Theme of Kinloch Ainort

• Change

• Impact of time

• Power of nature

• Summer

"I would wait there forever for the sea draining drop by drop."

• Kinloch Ainort

• An Autumn Day

• Shores

• Girl of the red-gold hair

Draw an image (simile, metaphor, personification) from An Autumn Day.

"I would build the rampart wall"

• Kinloch Ainort

• Hallaig

• I gave you immortality

• Shores

Analyse "congregation of the girls"

"A cavalry of mountains, ____________ summits,"

Analyse "among the shells snoring

in the morning,

and again at midday

and in the evening."

What is the next line? "I would stay there til doom"

• "my hopes are gone, gloom overshadows me."

• "his blood will not be traced while I live"

• "measuring sand, grain by gran,"

• "renewing love in my spirit"