step by step unseen poetry

Question 1

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Answer 1

identity literary themes or ideas. look for colours, vocab, familiar places, cultures, characters

Question 2

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how is the language being used to create tone? what is unspoken but present? look for colours, symbolism, imagery, pace of poem because of line structure and punctuation, volta (dramatic change), suggestive vocab?

Question 3

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Answer 3

interpretation of poem? what did you read?

Question 4

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why might the poem exist? highlighting a social issue? documenting a cherished memory? celebrating something? mocking or idolising? questioning humanity? protest an idea or notion?

Question 5

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Answer 5

summarise the poem