Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End Literature Paper Two

I can display knowledge of the poems Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End Lit Paper 2 Poetry Anthology I understand the timings of the exam I can display knowledge of the poems I can respond to a question quickly and appropriately Getting your target grade and feeling confident!

READ ALL OF THE POEMS!!! Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate Wabbalubbadubdub! It’s me, your main man John Milton, with some insights into your upcoming poetry exam.

Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End I’m a really super famous English poet who wrote Paradise Lost, an epic poem about Heaven, Hell, the devil, all that good stuff.

Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End I’m not good enough for AQA though apparently. I mean, like, hello? When’s it going to be Milton time in school? Milton time is a thing.

Anthology comparison: 45mins Unseen comparison: 15 mins Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End Timing Inspector Calls: 45 mins Anthology comparison: 45mins Unseen: 30 mins Unseen comparison: 15 mins

Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias William Blake London Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End Power and conflict The poems you have studied are: Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias William Blake London William Wordsworth The Prelude: stealing the boat Robert Browning My Last Duchess Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade Wilfred Owen Exposure Seamus Heaney Storm on the Island Ted Hughes Bayonet Charge Simon Armitage Remains Jane Weir Poppies Carol Ann Duffy War Photographer Imtiaz Dharker Tissue Carol Rumens The émigree Beatrice Garland Kamikaze John Agard Checking Out Me History Here are your poems. I’m not saying I’m better than most of these, but, well, I am. Anyway, make sure you’ve read them, eh? And know who wrote them. It’d be totes embarrassing to talk about the wrong poet all the way through an answer.

Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End The question: “Compare the ways the poets present [SOMETHING!] in [a named poem] and ONE other of your choice” You’re going to be asked something like this, so make sure your revision is focussed on this.

“Compare the ways the poets present [SOMETHING “Compare the ways the poets present [SOMETHING!] in [a named poem] and ONE other of your choice” Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End Unless you want to be the GCSE equivalent of the poem Poppies (I know, right? LOL) DO NOT write about more than one poem. Not even Rumens would make that mistake!

She’d probably still find some way to muck it up though. Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End She’d probably still find some way to muck it up though.

Conflict: effects of conflict Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End You need to be able to quickly choose and comment on the right poems, so we’re going to group them now into the following categories: Conflict: war Power of nature Conflict: identity Conflict: effects of conflict Power: effects of power over other people

Effects of conflict Charge of the Light Brigade Poet wasn’t there Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End You’ll want to add a few comments to each one for the purpose of comparison. For example: Effects of conflict Charge of the Light Brigade Poet wasn’t there Pro war Third person narrator Avoids talking about the reality of war Exposure Poet was there Anti war First person narrator Presents the hard truth of war

A useful way to remember what to write about is to SMILE. Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End A useful way to remember what to write about is to SMILE. Structure Meaning Imagery Language Effects So none of this “I didn’t know what to talk about business,” please. 1st or 3rd person narrators? Regular or irregular structure?

Before you write about any feature, ask yourself this question: Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End Before you write about any feature, ask yourself this question: SO WHAT?

You must link this to an effect and the author’s intentions. Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End SO WHAT? So what if the structure is regular? So what if it’s arranged into stanzas, or that it has a semantic field of battle? You must link this to an effect and the author’s intentions.

“Tennyson writes in stanzas that end in a refrain.” Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End “Tennyson writes in stanzas that end in a refrain.” So what? You don’t get many marks for “feature spotting”

Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End “Tennyson’s use of refrains and regular rhythm patterns symbolise his belief that war was a natural and somehow positive process, because…” That’s better. The structure represents or symbolises something. Us poets don’t just find these poems down the back of the sofa you know, we decide on every little detail FOR A REASON!

Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End You need to anticipate what the questions might be. Do a plan for each of these, and write one up tonight for revision if you like. Don’t concentrate on the poems you know really well! Train your weaknesses. So long as you have a few you’re solid on, with quotes and awareness of context, you’ll be fine. Prepare for the “I don’t know that one very well,” situation. How is power in relationships presented in My Last Duchess and one other poem? How is the aftermath of conflict presented in War Photographer and one other poem? How is a conflict of identity presented in Checkin’ Out Me History and one other poem? How is inequality presented in London and one other poem? How is the power of nature shown in Exposure and one other poem?

Peace out from Milton Engage Endeavour Explore Elaborate Evaluate End Good luck y’all! Here’s a scene from Paradise Lost to get you all psyched up for tomorrow’s exam! Oh yeah! Whoop!