1. Paper 1 Love Through the Ages
L.O. to understand the types of question in the paper
to understand how to create new questions
to understand how to respond to the tasks

2. Section B Unseen Poetry
You will have 2 poems from either the same or from different periods. I think they will not make them overlong - a sonnet is probably the shortest.
'It has been said that Rossetti's poem is conventional and celebratory, whereas Millay's poem offers a very different view of love.'
Compare and contrast the presentation of love in the following poems in the light of this comment.

3. Section B Unseen Poetry
How the question meets the Assessment Objectives
In this question, as throughout the paper, the assessment objectives are all assessed. As a result, all the key words in the question should be addressed, indicating either focus (conventional, celebratory, different view, presentation of love) or direction (compare and contrast, in the light of).

4. Section B Unseen Poetry
AO1 is tested through the way you organise your writing and express your ideas as you are comparing and contrasting the presentation of love.  Value is placed on technical accuracy, appropriate terminology and quality of discussion.

5. Section B Unseen Poetry
AO2 reference to 'the presentation of love' in the first part of the question gives a clear instruction to consider the writers' methods in detail, to engage with the poets' methods and their effects, and to show how the methods open up meanings about love.

6. Section B Unseen Poetry
AO3 will be addressed through you showing your understanding of the importance of contextual factors and in the way you will elicit from the poems contextual ideas about love within an historicist perspective (e.g. feminism and modernism).

7. Section B Unseen Poetry
AO4 will be addressed through you making connections between the poems in terms of subject matter or poetic methods, and by connecting implicitly with concepts of the theme of love (and other texts which address the theme) through the 'aspects' which you are exploring.

8. Section B Unseen Poetry
AO5 will be addressed when you grapple with meanings that arise about love and its presentation in the poems. Critical viewpoints might be used to help advance the argument, or to offer alternatives.

9. Section B Unseen Poetry Practise by choosing poems :
Use poems from the Love through the ages anthology (post-1900). Remember that the poems set for examination can be taken from any time period; both poems set may come from the same period or they may come from different periods.
Search online for poems about a particular aspect of love

10. Section B Unseen Poetry
Practise on poems which explore a key aspect of Love through the ages; ideas for areas to explore:
romantic love of many kinds
love and sex
love and loss
social conventions and taboos
love through the ages according to history and time
love through the ages according to individual lives (young love, maturing love)
jealousy and guilt
truth and deception
proximity and distance
marriage
approval and disapproval.

11. Section B Unseen Poetry
You will have 2 poems from either the same or from different periods. I think they will not make them overlong - a sonnet is probably the shortest. Look at the handout of the two poems (‘The Good Morrow’ and ‘
'It has been said that Donne’s poem celebrates the life-changing capacity of true love whereas Yeats’ poem offers a very different view.’
Compare and contrast the presentation of love in the following poems in the light of this comment.

12. Section B Unseen Poetry
Begin by looking closely first at the task and then annotating the poems in detail for form, structure, language (if you don’t know it, leave it out!). Look for a positive/negative view of love as this is suggested by the question.
Plan with your question in constant proximity so you can keep checking that you are answering. Check that you are covering the AOs, considering terminology, FSL, context, connections through typicality, other poems from the period, different views and debate as set up in the question.

13. Section B Unseen Poetry
Both poems, although written several centuries apart, present love as something that is all consuming. While Donne’s poem is a lyrical poem, Yeats uses a conventional sonnet form. Donne’s poem is typical of its time in its use of the first person speaker addressing an unknown lover; it presents a conventional view of love, which definitely ‘celebrates’ the power of love. This is very different in Yeats’ poem as this poet takes a cynical view that such emotion does not last. While Donne uses elaborate metaphors typical of metaphysical poems, Yeats adopts the sonnet form – typically chosen for love poetry by poets throughout the ages. An initial negative reaction to such a cynical view is perhaps tempered by the volta which suggests the true heartbreak that one sided love can bring.