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Component 3: Poetry
Quick questions on Studying a poetry collection: reading a collection as a connected whole - Edexcel A-Level English Literature
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What is read the collection as a connected whole?Show answer
A collection or movement coheres: its poems share preoccupations, forms and a sensibility. Read for the recurring themes, the characteristic methods, and the through-lines that connect the poems, while also noting where individual poems break the pattern. This double vision, the shared frame and the individual departure, is what comparison feeds on.
What is prepare to compare from memory?Show answer
Because you select the poems to compare, your map is your power. The student who can instantly name the right pair of poems for a question, and the lines to use, starts the essay with a real advantage in AO4 and AO1.
What is q1?Show answer
Why is it not enough to study the poems one at a time? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What two axes should a cross-collection map be organised by? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Choose a recurring concern in your collection, name the two poems you would compare on it, and explain why that pair is the strongest. [5 marks]
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