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Component 1: Poetry
Quick questions on Analysing post-1900 poetry: close reading modern verse - Eduqas A-Level English Literature
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"Heaney roots the poem in the body and the ground through tactile, monosyllabic diction. The verbs are physical and weighty, and the short, end-stopped lines fall like the strokes of the work they describe, so the rhythm enacts the labour the poem honours. The image of digging is not decorative: it links the speaker's pen to the spade, making writing itself an inheritance of the same rooted work, so the form binds craft to ancestry."
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A paraphrasing answer might write "Heaney writes about digging and his family, which shows he respects them." Upgraded: the tactile, monosyllabic diction and the falling, end-stopped lines enact the physical labour, while the digging image binds the speaker's pen to the spade, making writing a continuation of inherited work. Description becomes analysis of method.
What is q1?Show answer
Why does free verse still have form worth analysing? [2 marks]
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What does the open-book format expect of your Section B analysis? [2 marks]
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Analyse how one of your post-1900 poets uses voice and image to present a chosen theme in two poems. [part of Section B; out of 60]
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