Poetry Assignment

Alright. So I thought I might put some assignment tips up on the blog. Here is a another step by step guide to writing your assignment.

1. Choose two poems that are linked together by a theme.

2. Analyse those two poems. Highlight all the poetic devices.

3. Draw up a compare and contrast chart and compare the poems. What are the similarities? What are the differences? What are the poems really saying?

4. Start writing your speech.

-INTRO
-Body Paragraph #1 - Introduce the theme
-Body Paragraph #2 - Introduce poem #1.
-Body Paragraph #3 - Analyse poem #1.
-Body Paragraph #4 - Introduce poem #2.
-Body Paragraph #5 - Analyse poem #2
-CONCLUSION

As you write about the poems you need to make sure that you say things like, 'The poet is reflecting on the theme of WAR in the second stanza when he writes, 'The War is cold. I am not bold.'

Do you see what I did? I put in a quote from the poem and linked it to the theme... That's what you need to do.

Make sure you follow the structure of a body paragraph like I taught you in Term 1.

Topic Sentence
Example Sentence - Include quote
Analysis Sentence (or two)




Now here's what I suggest you do...

Have a think about your themes and choose your poems. Then start writing. If you don't START, you'll never realise whether or not you understand what you're supposed to do.

So get cracking!

Mansfield