Skills to Answer Unseen Poetry

Skills To Answer Unseen Poetry

• Things to Identify:
• - Structure, how it links to the meaning.
• - Break down the meaning of each stanza.
• - What the poem represents.
• - Refer to context if you can.

Structure, How it Links to the Meaning

• This is one long speech, pretending to be a conversation. It is divided up into rhyming couplets but to mimic unrehearsed speech there are lots of twists and turns within the lines, shown by a variety of punctuation.

Break Down the Meaning of Each Stanza

• Analyse each stanza separately, write about it and link it back to the question. Then analyse it as a whole and its general meaning.

What the Poem Represents

• Refer to the meaning of the poem and how it links with what is said in the poem.