Teach me how to analyse a poem… The BIG Question: How can I possibly write about something I haven’t been taught? Keywords: Unseen, Analysis, Subject, Purpose, Theme, Message, Mood, Feelings, Emotion, Techniques Teach me how to analyse a poem…

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How to approach unseen poetry What is the subject of the poem? Is it written in 1st/2nd/3rd person? What is the purpose of the poem? What are the main themes/messages? What emotions/moods/feelings are evident? What techniques have been used, and what is the effect? Is there a rhyme scheme/Interesting stanzas/ structural importance? What is your response? What do you think about the poem? How do you feel? How is the writer intending to make you feel? C1 Highlight the poem, looking for quotations that link to the topic in the question. Use PEE style paragraphs to explain how the poet presents the topic in the question. Make sure that your points refer to the methods and techniques that the writer uses.

Digging Deep – Havisham Consider the following: What is the subject of the poem? Is it written in 1st/2nd/3rd person? What is the purpose of the poem? What are the main themes/messages? What emotions/moods/feelings are evident? What techniques have been used, and what is the effect? Is there a rhyme scheme/Interesting stanzas/ structural importance? What is your response? What do you think about the poem? How do you feel? How is the writer intending to make you feel?

What and who is Havisham? The BIG Question: What and who is Havisham? Keywords: Unseen, Analysis, Subject, Purpose, Theme, Message, Mood, Feelings, Emotion, Techniques You are the teachers…

A B C Let’s Feedback Do you agree with that idea? Why? Can you build on that idea? C Can you challenge that idea? What is the subject of the poem? Is it written in 1st/2nd/3rd person? What is the purpose of the poem? What are the main themes/messages? What emotions/moods/feelings are evident? What techniques have been used, and what is the effect? Is there a rhyme scheme/Interesting stanzas/ structural importance? What is your response? What do you think about the poem? How do you feel? How is the writer intending to make you feel?

In ‘Havisham’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about her relationship? What is the subject of the poem? Is it written in 1st/2nd/3rd person? What is the purpose of the poem? What are the main themes/messages? What emotions/moods/feelings are evident? What techniques have been used, and what is the effect? Is there a rhyme scheme/Interesting stanzas/ structural importance? What is your response? What do you think about the poem? How do you feel? How is the writer intending to make you feel? S M I L M E E L P T E

What we need to be doing… In ‘Havisham’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about her relationship? What we need to be doing… What were are doing now… In the poem Havisham, it is clear that the speaker is suffering from a mental health issue, ‘it’s not only the heart that bbbb breaKS’. This suggests that she is physically and mentally breaking down and feeling isolated. The use of the allitertion/repetition has the effect of her obsessive compulsive disorder and this can be linked back the real story of Miss Havisham. Havisham is a poem that appears to explore how a sufferer of a mental health condition may react to heartbreak and rejection shown by, ‘it’s not only the heart that breaks’ suggesting that her breakdown is not only physical but is also emotional. Furthermore, her instability is also shown through the poet’s choice to include a semantic field of violence, ‘stabbed, bite, strangled. Finally, the theme is further proven by the speaker’s decision to start the poem with an aggressive insult, ‘beloved sweetheart bastard.’ The writer’s choice to use techniques such as, oxymoron supports the idea that the speaker has an confused and conflicted mind making the reader feel alarmed that this could actually be true.

Digging Deep – Now we’re going to PEE and MELT In ‘Havisham’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about her relationship?

Week 1 Lesson 1 Can your personality completely change? The BIG Question: Can your personality completely change? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlEfhim_36U F.Rigney

‘One more sick note, mister.....’. He was following the sun from east to west ‘I thumbed a lift.’ ‘I’d been tired.’ ‘The ansaphone kept screaming.’ ‘just a toothbrush and the good earth for a bed.’ ‘The truth, he said, was blowin’ in the wind. ‘I let him have it.’ ‘Once to the head and then six times with the krooklok to the face’ ‘Did n’t even swerve.’ ‘bouncing off the kerb.’ ‘we were the same age, give or take a week.’ ‘He said he liked the breeze to run its fingers through his hair.’

Identify key symbols in a poem and comment on meaning. Challenge Yourself: Integrate evidence into my opinions and comment on what the imagery and language of a poem suggests Minimum Expectation: Identify key symbols in a poem and comment on meaning.

How to approach unseen poetry What is the subject of the poem? Is it written in 1st/2nd/3rd person? What is the purpose of the poem? What are the main themes/messages? What emotions/moods/feelings are evident? What techniques have been used, and what is the effect? Is there a rhyme scheme/Interesting stanzas/ structural importance? What is your response? What do you think about the poem? How do you feel? How is the writer intending to make you feel? C1 Highlight the poem, looking for quotations that link to the topic in the question. Use PEE style paragraphs to explain how the poet presents the topic in the question. Make sure that your points refer to the methods and techniques that the writer uses.

‘Hitcher’ Simon Armitage What do we learn about: The speaker? I’d been tired, under the weather, but the ansaphone kept screaming: one more sick-note, mister, and you’re finished. Fired. I thumbed a lift to where the car was parked. A Vauxhall Astra. It was hired. I picked him up in Leeds. He was following the sun to west from east with just a toothbrush and the good earth for a bed. The truth, he said, was blowin’ in the wind, or round the next bend. I let him have it on the top road out of Harrogate – once with the head, then six times with the krooklok in the face – and didn’t even swerve. I dropped into third and lent across to let him out, and saw him in the mirror bouncing off the kerb, then disappearing down the verge. We were the same age, give or take a week. He said he liked the breeze to run its fingers through his hair. It was twelve noon. The outlook for the day was moderate to fair. Stitch that, I remember thinking, you can walk from there. ‘Hitcher’ Simon Armitage What do we learn about: The speaker? The hitcher?

What do you think is the Speaker’s motive for killing the Hitcher? The Speaker/Driver The Hitcher Carefree Lack of responsibilities or obligations. Enjoys life. Takes pleasure in nature. A hippie. Unreliable A ‘shirker’ Tired, stressed. Frustrated with life. Brutal Violent Lack of guilt of conscience Gloating No regard for human life What do you think is the Speaker’s motive for killing the Hitcher?

Digging Deep – Hitcher Consider the following: What is the subject of the poem? Is it written in 1st/2nd/3rd person? What is the purpose of the poem? What are the main themes/messages? What emotions/moods/feelings are evident? What techniques have been used, and what is the effect? Is there a rhyme scheme/Interesting stanzas/ structural importance? What is your response? What do you think about the poem? How do you feel? How is the writer intending to make you feel?

Summary (Personal Response) It’s a poem about how stress can lead to random acts of violence. It’s a poem which presents a deeply disturbed man in both a serious and comic way. It’s an insight into the mind of a cold, calculating murderer. It’s an extended metaphor: there is no real victim – the speaker comes to realise that dreams have no place in the real world and he ‘kills’ his freedom loving, imaginative side. Which of the following statements do you agree with and what is the evidence for your decision?

Can you improve this example PEE(L) response? How do you think the speaker is feeling in the poem? (P) The speaker of the poem may be feeling very stressed at the start of the poem. (E) His boss keeps “screaming” at him on the phone, “one more sick-note, mister, and you’re finished. Fired.” (E) The speaker may have had a lot of time off work for illness as he is handing in sick-notes, and is now worried he may lose his job. (L) The word “screaming” suggests that his boss is very angry, adding to the speaker’s stress at this point in the poem.

Digging Deep – Now we’re going to PEE and MELT In both ‘Havisham’ and ‘Hitcher’ the speakers describe their feelings about another person. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the poets present those feelings?

Week 1 Lesson 1 Can we ever truly relate to a historical event? The BIG Question: Can we ever truly relate to a historical event? What is this? What is the point? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlEfhim_36U F.Rigney

Identify key symbols in a poem and comment on meaning. Challenge Yourself: Integrate evidence into my opinions and comment on what the imagery and language of a poem suggests Minimum Expectation: Identify key symbols in a poem and comment on meaning.

How to approach unseen poetry What is the subject of the poem? Is it written in 1st/2nd/3rd person? What is the purpose of the poem? What are the main themes/messages? What emotions/moods/feelings are evident? What techniques have been used, and what is the effect? Is there a rhyme scheme/Interesting stanzas/ structural importance? What is your response? What do you think about the poem? How do you feel? How is the writer intending to make you feel? C1 Highlight the poem, looking for quotations that link to the topic in the question. Use PEE style paragraphs to explain how the poet presents the topic in the question. Make sure that your points refer to the methods and techniques that the writer uses.

Digging Deep – Limbo Consider the following: What is the subject of the poem? Is it written in 1st/2nd/3rd person? What is the purpose of the poem? What are the main themes/messages? What emotions/moods/feelings are evident? What techniques have been used, and what is the effect? Is there a rhyme scheme/Interesting stanzas/ structural importance? What is your response? What do you think about the poem? How do you feel? How is the writer intending to make you feel?

Digging Deep – Now we’re going to PEE and MELT In ‘Limbo’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about his situation?

AIR Peer Assessment A – Acknowledge a strength in the performance ____________________________________________________ I – Set an improvement task R – Respond to your partner’s improvement task in your book in green pen. Skill Achieved Clear link to question Analyses writer’s methods   Understanding of implicit ideas Terminology used accurately Thoughtful consideration of structure Links to context Integrated references Analyses effect of writer’s methods on reader

Week 1 Lesson 1 Are you really married if you didn’t have a choice? The BIG Question: Are you really married if you didn’t have a choice? Why do people get married? F.Rigney

Identify key symbols in a poem and comment on meaning. Challenge Yourself: Integrate evidence into my opinions and comment on what the imagery and language of a poem suggests Minimum Expectation: Identify key symbols in a poem and comment on meaning.

Context True or False?

Digging Deep – Limbo Consider the following: Click poem to play What is the subject of the poem? Is it written in 1st/2nd/3rd person? What is the purpose of the poem? What are the main themes/messages? What emotions/moods/feelings are evident? What techniques have been used, and what is the effect? Is there a rhyme scheme/Interesting stanzas/ structural importance? What is your response? What do you think about the poem? How do you feel? How is the writer intending to make you feel? Click poem to play

Digging Deep – Now we’re going to PEE and MELT In ‘The Farmer’s Bride’, how does the poet present power and conflict?

Digging Deep – Comparison In both ‘Farmer’s Bride’ and ‘(Limbo)’ the speakers describe their feelings about power and control. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the poets present those feelings?

AIR Peer Assessment A – Acknowledge a strength in the performance ____________________________________________________ I – Set an improvement task R – Respond to your partner’s improvement task in your book in green pen. Skill Achieved Clear link to question Analyses and compares writer’s methods   Understanding of implicit ideas Terminology used accurately and compared Thoughtful consideration and comparison of structure Links to context and modern context/own context Integrated references Analyses effect of writer’s methods on reader

Week 1 Lesson 1 Can I analyse two unseen poems independently? The BIG Question: Can I analyse two unseen poems independently? What do I need to look for? F.Rigney

Identify key symbols in a poem and comment on meaning. Challenge Yourself: Integrate evidence into my opinions and comment on what the imagery and language of a poem suggests Minimum Expectation: Identify key symbols in a poem and comment on meaning.

Digging Deep – Legacy and Names Consider the following: What is the subject of the poem? Is it written in 1st/2nd/3rd person? What is the purpose of the poem? What are the main themes/messages? What emotions/moods/feelings are evident? What techniques have been used, and what is the effect? Is there a rhyme scheme/Interesting stanzas/ structural importance? What is your response? What do you think about the poem? How do you feel? How is the writer intending to make you feel?

Digging Deep – Comparison In ‘Names’ how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings towards Eliza? 24 marks

Digging Deep – Legacy and Names Legacy - Wendy Cope  She left two Premium Bonds  And what remained of that week's pension,  Her clothes, photographs, and china ornaments  We'd given her as children.  Also the crocheted mats  She made as wedding presents,  Babies' shawls, the suit  My teddy bear still wears  And fifty pairs of woolly socks  In drawers all over England  Consider the following: What is the subject of the poem? Is it written in 1st/2nd/3rd person? What is the purpose of the poem? What are the main themes/messages? What emotions/moods/feelings are evident? What techniques have been used, and what is the effect? Is there a rhyme scheme/Interesting stanzas/ structural importance? What is your response? What do you think about the poem? How do you feel? How is the writer intending to make you feel?

Digging Deep – Comparison 8 marks In both ‘Legacy’ and ‘Names’ the speakers explore identity and ownership. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the poets present those feelings?