Picture and Text below from Sharpening Your Senses
by Suzanne Choo and Robert Yeo, pages 38 -39
Look at this picture and describe it closely.
When we look at this picture from afar, we see a human face. However, on closer examination, we realise that there is more to the face - in fact, it is made up of 24 different animals. Can you make them out?
The point of this exercise is that analysing a poem or prose text often requires you to be able to zoom out of and zoom into it. In other words, to appreciate a text effectively, you need to grasp the big picture about what the text is about and then move to look at it closely for its details.
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