Unseen Poetry P2 (40mins)

Question 1

What questions do you ask to decode a poem?

Answer 1

What does the question tell us?
What does the title tell us?
Read the first and last lines
Pick out 5 key words or images
Chose the defining line
How should it be read aloud
What mood is the poem?

Question 2

How should you answer the first unseen poem question?

Answer 2

Spend about 30 mins (5 plan, 25 write)
Intro: What is the poem about?
P1 : Language/Imagery
P2 : Language/Imagery
P3 : Structure
Conc : Poet's intentions [I personally think...]

Question 3

How should you answer the second unseen question?

Answer 3

Spend about 10 mins on this section
-plan the similarities and differences of the two poems and just write what you can in the time [language analysis important]