GCSE Poetry Unit
Today we are learning to …
…explore and analyse a poem.
Literature: Unit 2 (poetry across time)
Section A
• Essay on anthology
poems studied in
class.
• Clean copy of
anthology provided
in exam.
Section B
• Analysis of an
unseen poem
provided in exam.
Unit 1:
Of Mice and Men and
Sunlight On Grass
EXPLORING A POEM
IN YOUR BOOKS…
TITLE – EXPLORING A POEM
EXPLORING A POEM
IN YOUR BOOKS…
• SUBTITLE – PERSONAL RESPONSE
EXPLORING A POEM
1 PERSONAL RESPONSE
• What is the subject matter of the poem?
• What is the poem trying to do – is there a
message?
• Is it trying to create an emotive response from
you? What is your response/how does it make
you feel?
Write bullet –pointed notes
EXPLORING A POEM
2 VOICE
• Who seems to be speaking in the poem?
• What type of voice and tone of voice do
you imagine them speaking in?
Try reading lines from the poem to each other out
loud. Experiment - use different tones of voice.
Try emphasising different words.
Write bullet –pointed notes
Homework: complete the table
POETRY CLUSTER:
Conflict
Poems focusing on different kinds of conflict
• Experienced by people
• Caused by people
• Conflict within countries (e.g. civil war) and between
countries
• Reasons for conflict
• Effects of conflict
• Contemporary and heritage poetry
• Historical and current conflicts
• New perspectives on historical conflict
• Effects of conflict on the individual, groups and society
• Exploring feelings of conflict in a wider sense.
Poems we will study
• Flag – John Agard
• Out of the Blue – Simon
Armitage (extract)
• Mametz Wood – Owen
Shears
• The Yellow Palm – Robert
Minhinnick
• The Right Word – Imtiaz
Dharker
• At the Border, 1979 –
Choman Hardi
• Belfast Confetti – Ciaran
Carson
• Poppies – Jane Weir
• Futility – Wilfred Owen
• The Charge of the Light
Brigade – Alfred Tennyson
• Bayonet Charge – Ted
Hughes
• The Falling Leaves –
Margaret Postgate Cole
• ‘Come On, Come Back’ –
Stevie Smith
• next to of course god
america i – E. E. Cummings
• Hawk Roosting – Ted
Hughes
Assessment objectives: what the
INexaminer
OTHER
WORDS:
is looking
for
thetopoems,
be able to
discuss
the themes,
• Understand
AO1: respond
texts critically
and
imaginatively;
meanings
and techniques
evidence
from
the
select
and evaluate
relevantusing
textual
detail to
illustrate
to support your view.
and supportpoems
interpretations.
•BeAO2:
howand
language,
form and
ableexplain
to identify
analysestructure
languageand
techniques
contribute
to writers’
of back
ideas,tothemes
structural
featurespresentation
and link them
the
and settings.
themes/meaning of the poems.
• AO3: make comparisons and explain links between
Be evaluating
able to compare
based
onofthemes,
texts,
writers’poems
different
ways
expressing
techniques
meaning.
Have your own opinion!
meaning
andand
achieving
effects.