This document provides learning questions and tasks about analyzing poetry. It asks how poets use words to create images and what those images reveal about thoughts, feelings, and emotions in the poem. It then provides examples from the poem "Mid Term Break" by Seamus Heaney, asking students to choose images from the poem and explain what they suggest about Heaney's emotions. Finally, it asks students to compare how the poems "On My First Sonne" and "Mid Term Break" explore death and loss from the perspectives of a father-son and brother-brother relationship.
1. Learning Questions: HOW DO POETS USE WORDS TO CREATE IMAGES? WHAT DO THESE IMAGES TELL US ABOUT THE THOUGHTS, FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS IN THE POEM?
2. GCSE Eng/Eng Lit COURSEWORK EXAMS Original Writing Media Shakespeare 20 th Century Drama (play) Prose Study (Novel) 3 Speaking & Listening Assessments Eng Paper1 Sec A: Questions on Non Fiction & Media texts Sec B: Writing to Argue Persuade or Advise Eng Paper 2 Sec A: Other Cultures Poetry Sec B: Writing Inf/Ex/Descr Lit Paper: ‘Of Mice & Men ’ And Poetry (Heaney & Clarke) Lang: 40% Lit:30% Lang:60% Lit:70% S K I L L S 20% of the 40%
5. ‘ Wearing a poppy bruise’ ‘ Snowdrops and candles’ ‘ Gaudy scars’ ‘ In the four foot box as in his cot’
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7. I used this image of a scar, but in the poem he says ‘no gaudy scars’ because ‘the bumper knocked him clear’. I think he will have mental scars after seeing his dead brother…
