Poetry Anthology - questions

Remember

1) Make sure you write about
the effects of a wide range of poetic devices and language features
the mood and tone of the poem
what the poem is about beneath the surface narrative - ideas, issues, themes, thoughts, feelings, the poet’s “message”
your personal response to the poem

2) Include a WIDE RANGE OF QUOTATIONS and use the quotations as an opportunity for detailed analysis of the effects of language (the key to an A grade).

3) Plan your essay before you begin writing.

1. Explore the ways in which the Wordsworth presents Lucy in She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways.

2. Norman Nicholson uses childhood as a means of exploring other ideas in Rising Five. Identify the ideas of the poem and comment on the ways in which they are presented.



3. Explore the ways in which Mervyn Morris presents the relationship between a small child and an adult in Little Boy Crying.



4. How does James K. Baxter develop our understanding of character in Farmhand?



5. Comment on the ways in which ideas are presented in Before the Sun



6. Explore the ways in which memories of childhood are presented in Plenty



7. Comment on the ways in which changes in perspective between childhood and adulthood are explored in two of the following poems: Plenty, Rising Five, Little Boy Crying



8. Explore the significance of the ways in which Liz Lochhead presents the Storyteller and Storytelling.



9. Consider the significance of the ways in which women are presented in two of the following poems: Muliebrity, Plenty, She dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways,



10. Consider the ways in which Charles Lamb reminisces and conveys regret in The Old Familiar Faces.



11. Consider the ways in which one or two of the following poems present ideas about social injustice and lack of liberty: Caged Bird, Song to the Men of England, Monologue, Spectator Ab Extra, Carpet weavers, Morocco.



12. Explore the ways in which Maya Angelou uses the caged bird metaphor to present her ideas.



13. Consider the ways in which one or two of the following poems present ideas about work: Song to the Men of England, Carpet weavers, Morocco, Monologue, Muliebrity, Storyteller.



14. Comment on the ways in which Heaney presents the experience of grief in Mid- Term Break.



15. Explore the ways in which Sujata Bhatt presents her memory of the girl in Muliebrity.



16. Comment on the way the relationship between individuals and the natural world is presented in two or three of the following poems: Farmhand, Before the Sun, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways.



17. Comment on the way character is created in one or two of the following poems: Before the Sun, Farmhand, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, Spectator Ab Extra, Monologue.

18. Explore the ways in which the poet has used language and other poetic devices to present ideas in …….. (apply this question to any of the poems)