1. Poetry Essay
L.O: To revise how to structure a comparative essay and to understand what skills the examiner is looking for in my response.

2. Post-it note
Write the sentence stems you need to use to write one comparative paragraph. Both/Firstly/In ‘Exposure’ Owen….whereas in ‘Storm on the Island’ Heaney…

3. What other poem will you use? Storm on the island (see sheet)
Compare the ways poets present the power of nature in ‘Exposure’ and in one other poem from Power in Conflict.
Plan:
What other poem will you use?
Storm on the island (see sheet)
2. Write essay
Introduction
3 PEE paragraphs: either one then the other or side by side
Conclusion: overall how are they similar or different? What did the writer try to achieve? Was it successful?

4. Poetry Comparison Essay - The warm-up

5. Warm-up! Structure of analytical paragraph? POINT
EVIDENCE/TECHNIQUE/EXPLODE
WRITER’S PURPOSE
EFFECT ON THE READER
COMPARISON CONNECTIVE AND POINT ABOUT NEXT POEM
Firstly, within the poem ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen, the poet uses violent language to show how the weather the soldiers experienced in World War I, was similar to a second enemy.

6. Complete this analytical paragraph and end with a connective showing comparison and the point regarding Storm on the Island.
Structure of your essay?
Structure of analytical paragraph?
POINT
EVIDENCE/TECHNIQUE/EXPLODE
WRITER’S PURPOSE
EFFECT ON THE READER
COMPARISON CONNECTIVE AND POINT ABOUT NEXT POEM
Firstly, within the poem ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen, the poet uses violent language to show how the weather the soldiers experienced in World War I, was similar to a second enemy.

7. How does your compare to the exemplar?

8. Furthermore, the use of the verb ‘knifed’ shows that the wind was violent and mirrored the actions of the men.
this use of imagery shows how exposed the soldiers must have felt when they waiting to fight.
Additionally, the use of personification it was like a second enemy to the men and would have claimed the lives of them whilst they waited to fight.
Similarly within the poem ‘Storm on the Island’ by Seamus Heaney, the writer uses violent language, seen with the quotation ‘………..
As a reader, this makes us feel guilty when we read the poem, as we see their struggles and it makes us feel more patriotic towards what these soldiers did for the country. It may also anger us to realise that the men were treated in this way by those in charge.
Personally, I believe the writer has used this to demonstrate how isolated and afraid the soldiers must have felt and to remind us of how they died without any dignity.
Firstly, within the poem ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen, the poet uses violent language to show how the weather the soldiers experienced in World War I, was similar to a second enemy.
This is seen with the imagery ‘the iced east winds which knifed us…’

9. POINT
EVIDENCE/TECHNIQUE/EXPLODE
WRITER’S PURPOSE
EFFECT ON THE READER
COMPARISON CONNECTIVE AND POINT ABOUT NEXT POEM

10. Example Answer
Firstly, within the poem ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen, the poet uses violent language to show how the weather the soldiers experienced in World War I, was similar to a second enemy. This is seen with the imagery ‘the iced east winds which knifed us…’ this use of imagery shows how exposed the soldiers must have felt when they waiting to fight. Furthermore, the use of the verb ‘knifed’ shows that the wind was violent and mirrored the actions of the men. Additionally, the use of personification it was like a second enemy to the men and would have claimed the lives of them whilst they waited to fight. Personally, I believe the writer has used this to demonstrate how isolated and afraid the soldiers must have felt and to remind us of how they died without any dignity. As a reader, this makes us feel guilty when we read the poem, as we see their struggles and it makes us feel more patriotic towards what these soldiers did for the country. It may also anger us to realise that the men were treated in this way by those in charge. Similarly within the poem ‘Storm on the Island’ by Seamus Heaney, the writer uses violent language, seen with the quotation ‘………..
Point
Evidence/ technique/explode
Writer purpose
Effect on the reader
Comparison connective
THEN REPEAT

11. What grade and why?

13. Example Answer
Firstly, within the poem ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen, the poet uses violent language to show how the weather the soldiers experienced in World War I, was similar to a second enemy. This is seen with the imagery ‘the iced east winds which knifed us…’ this use of imagery shows how exposed the soldiers must have felt when they waiting to fight. Furthermore, the use of the verb ‘knifed’ shows that the wind was violent and mirrored the actions of the men. Additionally, the use of personification it was like a second enemy to the men and would have claimed the lives of them whilst they waited to fight. Personally, I believe the writer has used this to demonstrate how isolated and afraid the soldiers must have felt and to remind us of how they died without any dignity. As a reader, this makes us feel guilty when we read the poem, as we see their struggles and it makes us feel more patriotic towards what these soldiers did for the country. It may also anger us to realise that the men were treated in this way by those in charge. Similarly within the poem ‘Storm on the Island’ by Seamus Heaney, the writer uses violent language, seen with the quotation ‘………..
Point
Evidence/ technique/explode
Writer purpose
Effect on the reader
Comparison connective
THEN REPEAT

14. Target Setting
Look at your ‘warm-up’ analytical paragraph. What do you need to do to improve? In red, set yourself a target at the top of your essay response.

15. Poetry Comparison Essay – THE REAL RACE