Next, consider these questions: o What are the main ideas of the poem? o What is the tone of the poem? (mood) o How does the poet feel? o How does the poet make you (the reader) feel? o What words and phrases from the poem are relevant to the question? o Do they include any language or structural devices? If so, highlight them!

AQA GCSE English Literature: Unseen Poetry 2 1. In Jessie Emily Schofield how does the poet present the speakers attitudes to growing old? [24 marks] 2. In both Jessie Emily Schofield and Grandfather the speakers describe their at titudes to growing old. What are the similarities and/or differences between the way the poets present these attitudes?

Introduction to Unseen Poetry About the unseen poetry section In this section, worth 30 marks, you will be asked questions on a poem you have probably never seen before. Remember, the poem has been carefully chosen to be accessible to Junior Cert students so the chances are that you will understand it fairly

2024年8月28日 · Learn about AQA Unseen Poetry for your GCSE English Literature exam. This revision note includes a breakdown of how to approach, plan and write your essay.

Section B: Unseen poetry Answer both questions in this section. 5 10 15 Shoulders A man crosses the street in rain, stepping gently, looking two times north and south, because his son is asleep on his shoulder. No car must splash him. No car drive too near to his shadow. This man carries the world’s most sensitive cargo but he’s not marked.

practise the skills you will need to answer the unseen poetry questions. There are six sample questions which you can work your way through as either timed or untimed tasks.

Compare the ways poets present the power of the natural world in Storm on the Island and in one other poem from Power and Conflict. Compare the ways poets present ideas about place in The Emigrée and in one other poem from Power and Conflict.

Unseen Poetry (2020/2021 Edition Only) A collection of 20th/21st century poems grouped by theme and questions set in the same format as the exam. Whilst you will not study the poetry anthology in its entirety, relevant 20th Century poems …

‘Unseen Poetry’ Sample Exam Question Exemplar response “Those Winter Sundays” is a poem written from a child’s point of view reflecting on the relationship between a father and child. Unlike Pogson’s adult reflection on a child’s growth, Hayden presents a child reflecting on all the things their father did for them

How to ‘Open’ an Unseen Poem You might know the cliché, ‘there is more than one way to skin a cat’. It is a violent, visceral and quite revolting metaphor but it is useful when talking about Unseen Poetry. Why? There are many ways to tackle an Unseen Poem and the good news is, the examiners have noted that ‘those who found the