Assessment Planner for the Poetry of Social Comment Unit

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THEME: Love and Relationships

MY THESIS: Poets in my selection explore love's course in a distinctive way. Love lives only in relationships

Trait	"Colours"	"Woman to Man"	"In the Park"	Links between poems
poet	Yevtushenko	Wright	Gwen Harwood	Love is exciting but critically affects lives too.
content	love give meaning to live	Love's joys are boundless	Love needs maintenance	Though wonderful, love can destroy.
mood	thrilling	poignant	sadness	Poets can celebrate intangibles.
point of view	poet to beloved	woman to man	poet observer	Poets can express their own loves.
twist	love might cease	their love brings a fruit	happiness passes	Poets truncate love's span in one glimpse.
central image	love as a sun	love as a seed	love eats up the lover	Love nurtures, energises, & destroys.
era	timeless	general; timeless	ageless	Love is a universal theme.
poet's purpose	In praise of the beloved	celebrates their mutual love	Love's effects; love's hurts.	Poets are free to take up a variety of stances.
length	19	20	14 lines	brevity is the soul of wit

When analysing poetry, discuss its WHAT (= content and theme) and HOW (structure, techniques, language, tone, imagery, responses) it works. Theme is "what the poem's about" = a conclusion you reach after considering content, purpose, setting, poet writing. Theme is not a summary of content nor its point of view nor purpose. e.g., Wilfred Owen's theme is 'to warn about war and the wastage of war'.

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