Final Poetry Advice

Hi,

I'm pretty confident about this one, girls. You are more ready for this paper than any other class that I've sent into this exam in the past.

In this post, I'd like to just focus on some key reminders. See previous posts for past papers, mark schemes, links to blogs about other poems etc.

So, here's a reminder of the structure I described today:



Remember:

• when comparing ideas/attitudes/feelings, you should still analyse and interpret your quotes
• when comparing the writer's methods, you should still comment on interpretations of meanings (ideas/feelings/poet's message etc.) Perhaps do structure before language to ensure that you don't forget it.

In effect, you are using two different starting points for making comparisons to ensure that you hit the requirements of the marking criteria. You are looking at the comparison from two different angles (I wish I could show you Burrell's illustration here - if you send a photo, I'll put it up!).

Just keep doing what you've been doing through the course. Zoom in and zoom out.

A few last things...

Remind yourself of poetic devices here.

Finally, here's a couple of interpretations of My Last Duchess. There's loads of help on this poem out there, including tutorials on Youtube like this one. 

Here's one more dramatic reading of the poem, this time re-imagined as a British-Asian arranged marriage.

Great work so far, girls. You're nearly there: keep going!


Mr M