1. Name the poem from the quote
In silence I grieve
And yet God said not a word
And the waves clasp one another
Put out broad leaves, and soon there’s nought to see
All in a shiver and a stare
It’s not romance, simply how things are
It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day
They beckon me from the other bank
I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake
I space-walk through the empty bedrooms
The slow pulse of his good heart
Your polka dot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn.
And folded, one over the other, like a pair of wings settling after flight.

2. L.O: To revise how to successfully compare two poems.
Tuesday 11th October
Comparing Poetry
L.O: To revise how to successfully compare two poems.

3. You will be examined on the following strands:
Comparing poems and interleaving points.
Your ability to quote and make specific references.
Identifying word classes and poetic devices (including structural features).
Commenting on the effect of these.
Show your understanding of contexts/feelings/ideas from the poem
At the top of the level, a candidate’s response is likely to be a critical, exploratory, well-structured comparison. It takes a conceptualised approach to the full task supported by a range of judicious references. There will be a fine-grained and insightful analysis of language and form and structure supported by judicious use of subject terminology. Convincing exploration of one or more ideas/perspectives/contextual factors/interpretations.

4. Poetry Analysis Structure (language and messages)
Point – linking to question.
Pick out key words/phrases and identify devices used
quote
Make a new point
Link to the next poem
Analyse the effect of the device/word used. What does it suggest –
GO BEYOND THE OBVIOUS MEANING.
Link to the tone created by the language and comment on what this suggests.
Comment on reader’s response and poet’s intentions-

5. Multi-layered Sandwich Technique
Make a point that can be seen in both poems.
Examine the point in poem 1
Use sophisticated connective to link the point to the second poem.
Examine the point in poem 2

6. Compare the way that conflict is presented in Exposure with one other poem.
Owen presents the ever present conflict between the soldier and the elements in Exposure. From the very first line he suggests to the reader that enduring the weather is a torturous experience for the men in the phrase “Our brains ache, in the merciless east winds that knife us.” The use of the inclusive pronoun ‘our’ implies that the struggle against the weather is a shared experience of misery giving Owens words more gravity. The personification of the wind as ‘merciless’ and the use of the violent verb ‘knife’ convey how deadly the men’s ‘Exposure’ to the weather is, further emphasising the danger that the men are in, not from the enemy soldiers (as may be expected) but from the elements and the power they exert over man. This notion of the elements being in direct conflict with man is also seen in Storm on the Island when Heaney writes “Space is a salvo.” Like Owen, Heaney’s use of metaphor for wind is full of violent imagery. ‘Salvo’ conveys the not only the brutal attack from the wind, making it sound like a simultaneous discharge of guns, but also shows the continual violent onslaught from the weather…..

7. Compare the methods the poets use to explore ideas about longing and desire in Farmer’s Bride and one other of your choice.

8. Both poets show the present ideas of longing through natural imagery….
Compare the methods the poets use to explore ideas about longing and desire love in Farmer’s Bride and one other of your choice.
Farmer’s Bride v Sonnet 29
Both write about a strong desire for another person.
Desire is unfulfilled in both.
Use of natural imagery to show feeling.
Tone of frustration
Contrasts are shown.
MEANING
LANGUAGE
STRUCTURE
WIDER ISSUE
The longing and desire we feel when falling in love can be something wonderful, deep and all consuming. However, there are times when love is unfulfilled, often resulting in longing and desire becoming overwhelming and changing us as people and the way that we think and act. It is exactly this which is explored in The Farmer’s Bride by Charlotte Mew and Sonnet 29 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Both poets show the present ideas of longing through natural imagery….