1. “Poetry is like a puzzle
“Poetry is like a puzzle. First it is confusing and frustrating, but when you figure it out, it’s a beautiful thing.”

2. English Literature Paper #1: Shakespeare & 19th Century Text Paper #2:
Modern Texts & Poetry
Section A: An Inspector Calls
Section B: Conflict & Power Poetry
Section C:
Unseen Poetry
Question 1: Analysing an unseen poem
Question 2: Comparing unseen poems

3. Poetic Techniques Alliteration Anaphora Enjambment Emotive Language
Epistrophe
Imagery
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Pun
Repetition
Rhetorical Questions
Rhyme
Rhythm
Simile
Stanza
Symbol
Theme
Tone

4. Intro – 2 PEELAs - Conclusion
Section C: Question 1
24 marks - 30 minutes
Intro – 2 PEELAs - Conclusion
AO1
Read, understand and respond to texts.
• maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response
• use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.
AO2
Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.
DO:
Develop your answers
Analyse evidence
Maintain tone
INCLUDE:
Informed and critical response
Interpretations
Language, form, and structure
Terminology

5. 5 Steps to Analysing Poems
Subject
The narrator or topic on which the poem is based
The written manner of the poem and its address
Purpose, theme or message
What is the poet saying? Why?
What is the purpose? What message is it trying to get across?
Emotions or feelings
Identify the main feelings and the techniques used to show them.
Techniques
Impact
What effect does the language have?

6. “His Visitor”
I come across from Mellstock while the moon wastes weaker To behold where I lived with you for twenty years and more: I shall go in the gray, at the passing of the mail-train, And need no setting open of the long familiar door As before. The change I notice in my once own quarters! A brilliant budded border where the daisies used to be, The rooms new painted, and the pictures altered, And other cups and saucers, and no cosy nook for tea As with me. I discern the dim faces of the sleep-wrapt servants; They are not those who tended me through feeble hours and strong, But strangers quite, who never knew my rule here, Who never saw me painting, never heard my softling song Float along.
So I don't want to linger in this re-decked dwelling, I feel too uneasy at the contrasts I behold, And I make again for Mellstock to return here never, And rejoin the roomy silence, and the mute and manifold Souls of old.

7. SUBJECT
PURPOSE
THEME
MESSAGE
EMOTIONS / FEELINGS
IMPACT

8. What is the poem saying about death and the afterlife
What is the poem saying about death and the afterlife? How does the poet present these ideas?
POINTS

9. “I Look Into My Glass” I look into my glass, And view my wasting skin,
And say, ‘Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!’
For then, I undistrest
By hearts grown cold to me,
Could lonely wait my endless rest
With equanimity.
But Time, to make me grieve,
Part steals, lets part abide;
And shakes this fragile frame at eve
With throbbings of noontide

10. SUBJECT
PURPOSE
THEME
MESSAGE
EMOTIONS / FEELINGS
IMPACT

11. POINTS

12. Home Learning
Using your essay plan, write up the essay. It should have an introduction, 2 PEELAs and a conclusion.
Spend 30 minutes writing.
Due: Lesson 3&4