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Unseen poetry Question Edexcel Literature

Expectations  45 minutes  Read 2-3 times and annotate  Find ideas/emotions  Form, structure and lots of language  Short sharp quotes - lots  Own response.

Assessment objectives…  Identify the ideas and feelings  Explain how the form helps  Explain how the structure helps  Explain how lots of language examples help  Use relevant quotes  Accurate SPG and an organised response.

The poets…  There are 15 from whose work your poem will be selected  You can read examples – these will not be the set ones  SO … how to begin…?

Clues…  1. Look at title – jot down any thoughts, meanings ideas  2. Look at first line  3. Read rest of poem – and again  4. Significance of last line  5. Annotate! ( aspects of form/structure / language)  6. What’s the big picture/surface meaning? Use this to write your intro.  7. Is there an order/sequence of events?  8. Look for word patterns – (lexical fields); use of non standard English  9. Pick out words /phrases that convey emotions or sounds  10. Jot down a quick emotional or intellectual personal response

Your Response  It’s perfectly acceptable to say you find a poem confusing or misleading if you can explain why  Try to be positive about some aspect of the poem or explain how you relate to an idea or event in it  Uses phrases to show your sadness, surprise, enjoyment, anger, frustration, empathy……  The examiner basically wants to know you have read and thought about this poem

Things you should NEVER write!  At first I didn’t understand the poem but after reading it a couple of times I think…  The poem has no rhythm  I think the poem needed to rhyme more because I like poems that rhyme…  I think the poet has done a very good job of writing this poem and they obviously thought carefully about it…

Context about the poets to help you access the poems…  Ted Hughes – poems of nature /poet of the wild/sense of place/animals /childlike /bitter  Seamus Heaney- story teller/ Irish/families /rural/industrial/bog poems/memories /troubles  Charles Causley _ Cornish/private person/simple/direct/ man of people /war experience  Siegfried Sassoon – war poet  Maya Angelou – black American/activist/feminist/personal/identity/family  E.B Browning – 19thcentury/political/pain and suffering/religious/love/female perspective

The rest…  Emily Dickinson- 19 th century American/recluse/private/broke rules for writing poems/emotional/botany/death  John Clare -18 th -19thc/British/farming/rural/childhood/wildlife/natural cycles/local/peasant poet  Edgar Allen Poe- 19 th c /US/gothic/mystery/death/grotesque/  Robert Frost – US/ 20 th c/rural/ordinary people/bleakness/colloquial language  Margaret Atwood- Canadian/identity/animals/inspired by myths  Helen Dunmore – British/loss memory  Thomas Hardy- 19 th c/sense of place/traditional/fate/tragic characters/war poet/love and disappointment  Sarogini Naidu – female Indian activist/women/political

Evaluative words…  Sad  Mysterious  Disturbing  Shocking  Reflective  Controlled  Moving  Brutal  Mundane - see other ppt on tone