PoetryPaper 2

1 hour 30 mins

2 questions

This exam is worth 40%

of your overall mark for literature

PoetryTone Adjective

Irony

Stanza Emotive

Sonnet

Simile

Metaphor

Alliteration

Enjambment

Onomatopoeia

Juxtaposition

Caesura

Rhyme Scheme

Iambic pentameter

Symbolism

Narrator

Structure

Connotations

Ambiguity

Rhythm

Rhyming Couplets

Half Rhyme

Section A – Unseen Texts20 marks = 45 mins.You’ll get an unseen poem and an unseen prose extract.

You answer on ONE of these – the poem is your best bet as you have more to say on structure and you’ll have a complete text to look at.

The question tends to be very vague.DON’T rush into writing the answer.

It is essential that you read the poem slowly and make sure you’ve really understood it and have intelligent things to say before you start writing.

Make sure you use the bullet points in the question to help you. Top Grade Tip: Don’t structure your answer with a paragraph

per bullet point, instead refer to each bullet point in each every paragraph.

Section B - AnthologySection B – Anthology20 marks = 45 mins.You’ll get two questions – you need to answer ONE.

Read both questions and take time to think about which one you can answer best. Don’t make a snap decision based only on the named poem.

The question tends to be theme based. One or two poems will be named.

If you choose one of the poems, make sure you take time to choose the one that fits the question best NOT your favourite one!

You don’t need to compare.Make sure you treat the two poems equally. Keep an eye on

the time!

The most important advice:

Write a lot about a little.Every paragraph needs a quotation from the

poem. Don’t give loads of examples, instead really analyse a few examples in as much detail as you can.

Make sure you really pick apart the words and techniques used.

Make sure you talk about the structure of the poem

Without looking at your anthology/ book

In 3 minutes, how many of the poems can you remember from the anthology?

List the 16 poems – either the name (and the poet?) or a brief description, the one about …

1. If – ,Rudyard Kipling

2. Prayer Before Birth, Louis MacNeice

3. Half-Past Two, U. A. Fanthorpe

4. Piano, D. H. Lawrence

5. Hide and Seek, Vernon Scannell

6. Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare

7. La Belle Dame Sans Merci, John Keats

8. Poem at Thirty-Nine, Alice Walker

9. Telephone Conversation, Wole Soyinka

10. Once Upon A Time, Gabriel Okara

11. War Photographer, Carol Ann Duffy

12. The Tyger, William Blake

13. My Last Duchess, Robert Browning

14. A Mother in a Refugee Camp, Chinua Achebe

15. Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas

16. Remember, Christina Rossetti

Which poem?

Which poem does the quotation

come from?

Why are these words important?

Any other intelligent thoughts?

Are any techniques

being used? Why?

What immortal hand or eyeDare frame they fearful symmetry

The Tyger

A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling stringsAnd pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.

Piano

Better by far you should forget and smileThan that you should remember and be sad.

Remember

I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me,

with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me,

Prayer Before Birth

“I hate a wasted journey – I am African.”Silence.

Telephone Conversation

I see a lily on they brow,With anguish moist and fever-dew,And on they cheek a fading rose

Fast withereth too.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

He has a job to do. Solutions slop in traysbeneath his hands, which did not tremble thenthough seem to now

War Photographer

She held a ghost-smile between her teeth,and in her eyes the memoryOf a mother’s pride ...

A Mother in a Refugee Camp

If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two imposters just the same

If --

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Do not go gentle ...

Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle’s compass come;

Sonnet 116

Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together.

My Last Duchess

Once upon a schooltimeHe did Something Very Wrong

(I forget what it was).

Half-Past Two

I have learned, too,to laugh with only my teeth

and shake hands without my heart.

Once Upon a Time

How I miss my father.

Poem at Thirty-Nine

Good Luck!