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1. Cut the pictures of the following things from a magazine and glue them on a piece of paper: a pair of lips, a pair of eyes and hair. Add a piece of paper tissue with a drop of perfume or aftershave on it. 2. Think of a suita le metaphor for all the o !ects on the paper and write it ne"t to them. #"change your ideas. $. %ead this poem y &arry Cole and list the details of the description the policeman re'uires and of the description the man gives.

Can you give me a precise description? Said the policeman. Her lips, I told him, Were soft. Could you give me, he said, pencil Raised, a metaphor? Soft as an open mouth, I said. Were there any noticeable Peculiarities? he asked. Her hair hung Heavily, I said. Any particular Colour? he said. I told him I could recall Little but its distinctive scent. What do You mean, he asked, by distinctive? It had The smell of woman's hair, I said. Where Were you? he asked. Closer than I am to Anyone at present, I said, level With her mouth, level with her eyes. Her eyes? He said, what about her eyes? There were two, I said, both black. It has been established, He said, that eyes cannot, outside common Usage, be black; are you implying that Violence was used? Only the gentle Hammer blow of her kisses, the scent Of her breath, the ... Quite, said the policeman, Standing, but I regret that we know of No one answering to that description.
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Feelings

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