1. To Autumn City Jungle London Nettles
What do you think the poems are about based on these titles? Choose one and discuss it in your book.
Manhunt
To Autumn
City Jungle
Sonnet 43
London
Nettles

2. What do you think the poems are about based on these first lines
What do you think the poems are about based on these first lines? Choose one and discuss it in your book.
Rain splinters town.
I wander thro’ each charter’d street
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
My son aged three fell in the nettle bed.
After the first phase, after passionate nights

3. What do you think the poems are about based on these closing lines
What do you think the poems are about based on these closing lines? Choose one and discuss it in your book.
We’ve lost this war before it has begun.
and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.
The same chain of mountains encompasses all of us
This holiday was horrible. My dad did.

4. L.O. To learn ways to structure an unseen poetry essay.

5. Example Mark Scheme for the Poetry Exam

6. Ways of Structuring Unseen Answers
Find a language feature  make a point from it
Read the poem; make three points about the question. Find evidence to back up your answer.
“Explore the poet’s thoughts and feelings towards X”:
hopeful
For example, in stanza two, he writes, ‘… … …’
This shows the reader that…
The poet’s thoughts and feelings about X are…
painful
despairing

7. Unseen Poem: Essay
Choose one of the two unseen poems on the following slides, and write a 3 or 4 paragraph analytical essay based on it.
Spend 5 minutes reading the poem again and again, annotating on your third reading.

8. Explore the poet’s attitudes and ideas towards hope.
Dream Deferred
Explore the poet’s attitudes and ideas towards hope.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Langston Hughes
Main message
Tone
Language
Structure

9. Explore the poet’s attitudes and ideas towards hope.
I am not yours
Explore the poet’s attitudes and ideas towards hope.
I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light. Oh plunge me deep in love -- put out My senses, leave me deaf and blind, Swept by the tempest of your love, A taper in a rushing wind. Sara Teasdale
Main message
Tone
Language
Structure

10. STOP - Marking Time.
Using the mark scheme, we will mark your work. Decide what band the answer would be in. Why? Comment on one thing you have done well, and one thing you could focus on improving.