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Year 9 - Poetry Pages

 This exercise can be done as either a Word document or a WebPage

Choose one poem, write it out in full or download the text

  Write an interactive appreciation of it with bookmarked links to key images & devices .

Use colour-coding of the text to show lexical sets, rhyme and patterns of imagery

 

Structure of analysis

1.    Summary of story/content

2.    Discussion of ideas/themes

3.    Analysis of:

·       Imagery

·       Diction

·       Syntax

·       Heightened language

4.    Conclusion – personal response

 

Choose from:

·       Sun Rising – 13

·       Sonnet 18 – 11

·       Dover Beach – 66

·       Death Be Not Proud – 14

·       Coy Mistress – 22

·       Blake – 33