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AS Unit 2: Poetry Post-1900
Quick questions on Comparing poetry collections (AS Unit 2 Section B) - WJEC A-Level English Literature
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What is model approach?Show answer
Suppose the theme is the natural world. A top-band answer opens with a comparative line - both poets turn to nature, but one to find consolation and the other to find indifference. It then argues through paired points: a paragraph comparing how each poet's imagery renders a landscape, showing one poet's nature as tender and the other's as bleak, each proven by quotation; a paragraph comparing form and tone, perhaps a controlled lyric against a starker free verse; a paragraph on how each poem's ending positions the reader.
What are implied links?Show answer
Leaving the comparison for the reader to infer loses AO4; state it with explicit connectives.
What is thin selection?Show answer
Trying to cover too many poems shallowly beats the point; choose a few and analyse them closely.
What is q1?Show answer
Why does organising by comparative points beat organising poet by poet? [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Name two connective phrases that signal genuine comparison. [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Compare how the two poets you have studied present a shared theme such as loss or the natural world. [30 marks]
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