What do you think the poems are about based on these titles?Choose one and discuss it in your book.

Sonnet 43

NETTLES

Manhunt

London

City JungleTo Autumn

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

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.

This holiday was horrible. My dad did.

and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.The same chain of mountains encompasses all of us

Unseen PoetryL.O.

To learn ways to structure an unseen poetry essay.

Example Mark Scheme for the Poetry Exam

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”:

The poet’s thoughts and feelings about X are…

hopeful

painful

despairing

For example, in stanza two, he writes, ‘… … …’

This shows the reader that…

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.

Dream Deferred

What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry upLike 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 sagslike a heavy load.Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

Explore the poet’s attitudes and ideas towards hope.

Main message

Tone

Language

Structure

I am not yours

I am not yours, not lost in you,Not lost, although I long to beLost as a candle lit at noon,Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you stillA spirit beautiful and bright,Yet I am I, who long to beLost as a light is lost in light.

Oh plunge me deep in love -- put outMy senses, leave me deaf and blind,Swept by the tempest of your love,A taper in a rushing wind.

Sara Teasdale

Explore the poet’s attitudes and ideas towards hope.

Main message

Tone

Language

Structure

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.