This document contains notes on how to structure an answer to an AQA GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology Question. It details every section of the answer, from introduction to main body to conclusion, giving tips and techniques for analysis. It also includes a full worked essay plan, guiding t...
AQA English Literature GCSE – Poetry Anthology
Part 1: Answer Structure
Introduction
Compare the poems in terms of ideas, rather than language methods
Using the question: How do poets present painful relationships in Neutral Tones
and one other poem
3 things:
1. Bring the two poems together
o 'when considering how poets present [painful relationships] in [Neutral
Tones], one also thinks of [Winter Swans].
2. Identify a thematic similarity
o 'both poems explore [the painful heartache that comes from a
relationship that is in trouble]'
3. Identify a thematic di erence
o 'yet, whilst [Neutral Tones concludes with much the same bleakness as it
started],[ Sheers suggests there can be hope and reconciliation]'.
First Poem [Neutral Tones]
4 sections (four quotations to explore and analyse):
Pause and analyse each quote
Use threaded transitions to move between quotes:
'This sense of [last idea spoken in the previous analysis] is further
suggested/shown/revealed etc. by…'
Second Poem [Winter Swans]
3 sections (three quotations to explore and analyse):
Pause and analyse each quote
Use threaded transitions to move between quotes:
'This sense of [last idea spoken in the previous analysis] is further
suggested/shown/revealed etc. by…'
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