Unseen poetry notes

• Timing

Say the question is ‘How does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about her daughter’

• Big ideas - (on theme and 3 paragraphs to support)

• No technique vomiting allowed

• don’t recommend caesura or enjambment

Choose to do layering and 2 paragraphs, instead of 3 paragraphs with no layer

Intro : short, one sentence - thesis sentence

Para 1 : based on a big idea linked to your thesis statement

Evidence : quote

Analyse and develop : technique, zoom in, effect on the reader, [layer]

Para 2 : based on a big idea linked to your thesis statement

Evidence : quote

Analyse and develop : technique, zoom in, effect on the reader, [layer]

Para 3 : based on a big idea linked to your thesis statement

Evidence : quote

Analyse and develop : technique, zoom in, effect on the reader, [layer]

[Poet] presents [theme]…

[Poet] powerfully conveys…

The reader feels…