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Title: How to compare poems
Description: Notes with helpful tips to compare poems, including sentence starters and questions to help focus your comparisons on.
Description: Notes with helpful tips to compare poems, including sentence starters and questions to help focus your comparisons on.
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Comparing poems
You should identify points from the two poems that you can compare
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Some questions to focus your comparisons on:
• Do the poems approach the same topic from a similar or different
perspective?
• How do the moods of the poem compare? Do they create a similar or
different feeling?
• Are the words and devices used by the poets similar or different? What kind
of effects are created by these?
• How are both poems structured? Is this similar or different? Why?
• Which poem do you prefer? Why? (Make sure that this is focused on poetic
techniques, rather than saying something like one of them was boring
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Look at the similarities and differences
between the words for each poem and find quotations to support each word
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These should be short and focused
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Some sentence stems that you could use as a starting point for you
comparisons:
• Both poems create an atmosphere of…
• The poem titles ‘…’ creates a mood of … through …
Title: How to compare poems
Description: Notes with helpful tips to compare poems, including sentence starters and questions to help focus your comparisons on.
Description: Notes with helpful tips to compare poems, including sentence starters and questions to help focus your comparisons on.