 Welcome, welcome to yet another GCSE revision live. So today's live is for the keen, keen beans who wanna get started and going early on their literature paper two exam. So as you can see guys here, I've basically prepared like a table of literally all the quotations, context. Well, actually context, I'm gonna walk you guys through but all the quotes need to remember as well as things to do with form and key quotes. If you forget everything else, what you need to bear in mind when it comes to the different questions. Now guys, the way I've positioned the phone, I'm obviously not able to see you guys, okay? So I'm recording this on my phone, but what I wanted to do guys, there were lots of you who basically voted for pound conflict, right? So lots of you guys wanted to go over pound conflict and there's when I was kind of doing this, it then kind of dawned on me that there's lots to cover because I think what makes this part of the English Literature Paper Two exam quite challenging is firstly, you've got to know really useful and relevant quotations for all 15 poems and each quote that you select needs to be like a really hard hitting quote, right? So you've got to have a quotation that has some language included, some structure included, but also you can't have way too many quotations because it's not gonna be realistic if even for instance, you remember two quotes for each of the poems. So for all 15 poems, you're still gonna have to remember 30 quotes, right? So what I wanted to show you guys is if you literally minimized what to remember, these are the main quotations to remember for all 15 poems, but also guys, when revising for this part of your exams, the best way to tackle the poetry portion of your exams is literally think about what are the main themes that you're gonna be tested on. And to be honest, based on looking at all the different past paper questions, there are four major themes that you can anticipate that you're gonna be asked about, okay? And the best way to maybe consider how to memorize these quotations is to anticipate, okay, definitely one of the major themes is to do with power. And these are the poems that are gonna go really, really well with power. You know, the other main theme is to do with nature, power of nature, anticipate which poems go with nature and then remember the quotations that go with that. And of course, even already when you think about it in that way, right? So when you're thinking about the dominant theme and then the quotations that go with it, you already are kind of working through an essay plan. You're already thinking of possibilities and the cross connections you can make between the different poems, right? And of course, the other theme as I've put here is to do with war and conflict and the final theme to consider is identity. So guys, the first approach I would always suggest and recommend when it comes to preparing for power and conflict, literally consider all 15 poems and remember that they all belong to a certain category, okay? There's four major categories. When I was looking at this, I thought there's literally only four main categories and then you just select the quotations that go with each category. Power, nature, war and identity. And as you can see here, I've put them in different colors just to kind of distinguish which ones go into the different categories. And what I'm gonna do guys today is obviously walk you guys through the main quotations. If you forget everything else with the power and conflict poems, remember these quotations and commit them to memory. But also what I'm gonna walk you guys through is literally what to consider when you're considering form because guys when you're writing a response, you need to make sure you show an awareness of what's going on in the poem, comparing it to another poem, but also showing an awareness of language, form and structures. So what I'm gonna do is obviously walk you guys through this and then probably we're not gonna have lots and lots of time for me to be doing lots and lots of model answers. But what I did is I prepared, I suppose a list of all the past paper questions that came up. So from 2017, all the way to 2022, what I might do is just pick out like say one question and then show you how to write a model paragraph where you compare one poem versus another, right? So I'm gonna kind of rub this all out and then walk you guys through that, okay? And as I mentioned, the phone is, I literally can't see what the comments are saying, right? So I'm gonna be checking every so often if there's any relevant comments. What I might do actually is I'm gonna check the comments and I'm gonna want to walk you guys through this kind of table or this grid. I'm gonna see if there's any comments or anything that you guys would like me to dive into. I am gonna try and keep today's live to an hour, an hour 30 max. So there's only obviously so much that can get through but based on what I cover, I am gonna be doing another live tomorrow. So maybe you guys can let me know. Okay, can you do like another power and conflicts follow up? Or for instance, if you guys want me to go over unseen poetry, I can do that tomorrow at around 4.30. And then also there's gonna be a live on Tuesday. So the Tuesday live is gonna be kind of late because I'm gonna be busy all day. But the live on Tuesday is literally gonna be like just a last minute revision, okay? So guys, what I'm gonna do is walk you guys through a grid in terms of the major themes. And the reason I'm going through major themes is when you look at the different questions, they are theme-led. Obviously they tell you to focus on one poem and another poem from the anthology, but the question tends to be thematic. It tends to be led by theme, okay? So obviously the first major theme when it comes to power and conflict is the theme of power. You've got how is power illustrated in terms of the power of individuals? How is power illustrated in terms of power of say, institutions, okay? So if you've got a question that's mentioning power, power of individuals, power and control. I believe power and control was actually the 2021 question that came up. These are the main poems that fit really, really into the theme of power, okay? So the first poem, of course, is London. Or actually, oh, I'll put the wrong ones. So it shouldn't be a sonnet. This one should be in terms of form and rhyme scheme. I'll put the wrong ones. London is A-B-A-B and Aussie-Mandius is a sonnet. Just realized I put the wrong thing. Anyway, so when it comes to the theme of power, make sure you consider London, Aussie-Mandius, My Last Duchess. My Last Duchess obviously ties in in terms of the power of an individual. Aussie-Mandius shows power of an individual. London shows power of the church and the state, which obviously also ties into Aussie-Mandius, the power of somebody who's the head of a country, Pharaoh, King Ramesses II, okay? So if you are struggling with what quotations to select for each of these poems, this is what I would suggest. So firstly, of course, when you're thinking about an observation of form, if you are revising London and you're not sure what to talk about in terms of form, focus on the rhyme scheme, right? So it's written in quaterins and it follows a very strict A-B-A-B pattern. Now, in terms of quotations, remember for London, remember and commit to memory, which I think is a really, really hard-hitting quotation. The idea that every citizen is in mind forged manapals, okay? This is really, really powerful because for two reasons, you've got alliteration here and you've also got a metaphor, okay? So this is the first quotation, which I would say is a really hard-hitting quote to remember. And of course, the second quotation for London is this idea of every cry, ellipsis and the mention of the church and the palace. These two institutions are being directly criticized by William Blake for being at root and the cause of the people's misery, okay? So of course, cry and then church and palace and the third and final quotation, if you forget everything else, it's how it ends by stating there's a marriage house. It mentions a youthful harlot and this oxymoron right at the end, okay? So if you mentioned that it's an oxymoron at the end, you're hitting two points. You're talking about structure, it's at the end, but also language oxymoron. This oxymoron illustrates that any promise of new life in London is immediately destroyed, okay? Because Hearst illustrates death, okay? The death of any promise of new life. I would say for London, literally, these three quotations cover everything neatly. And of course, when it comes to your form discussion, talk about the fact that it's set out in four quad trains of an A, B, A, B rhyme scheme. That's the first poem to use if you want to talk or to answer a question relating to power. The second quotation, or the second poem is of course, Ozymandias, and in terms of form, remember it's written as a sonnet. But it's written as a sonnet, which means of love poem in an ironic way. Obviously, Percy Shelley is writing about Ozymandias, this guy who context you was known as King Ramesses II. He was a very tyrannical leader and he's using this sonnet form in an ironic way to mop this king. Now, the quotations that illustrate how this king firstly took advantage of his power, hence he was despised by his subjects who never looked after his statue and the statue was destroyed by nature. The first quotation which shows why they despised him is cold command. And if you remember, snare of cold command, even better. So, obviously cold command here, an iteration emphasises that this king, King Ramesses II, was this horrible tyrannical king that everybody hated but he thought that he would be remembered forever, okay? And of course, he abused his power, much like the Duke of Milus Duchess abused his power. So there's nice overlaps there. Also, of course, King Ramesses is shown or Ozymandias is shown as being super arrogant. He thinks he's gonna be remembered because this quotation, King of Kings, illustrates that he is extremely arrogant. Here, you've got repetition and this once more shows that he thinks he has all of this power and his power is going to endure even past his death. The next quotation, which I think is really powerful and to be honest, the go well together is this idea of his statue is now boundless and bare, alliteration. And of course, it's boundless and bare because of the lonely level sands. The sands just completely level him. But also, the people who he thought would remember him and love him forever, they have abandoned him because he has misused his power, okay? So London criticises the power of institution, specifically the church and the palace. Ozymandias criticises the power of an individual. So this is King Ramesses II but of course by extension, the power of a government, okay? Finally, of course, in terms of power, when you're revising the best poem which illustrates the destructiveness when an individual has too much power and also the powerlessness of women during Victorian society is My Lost Duchess. And it's written as a dramatic monologue. That's your form observation. And the quotations that illustrate how much he abuses his power but also how arrogantly he uses his power is firstly when he's talking about how his Duchess is looking as if she were alive. So of course there's simile, foreshadows the fact that he's gonna kill her. The next quotation is when he alludes to his 900 year old name. This adjective is important to remember because it shows that he is very well aware of the power that he wills. The next quotation is of course, this simile comes to full circle when he admits that all smiles stopped together. Of course this shows that he had his Duchess killed and he is so boldly arrogant that he admits this murder to the person who is calm being sent by the count to arrange his next marriage. And the final quotation is notice Neptune. Neptune, who is taming a seahorse is used as symbol of the Duke himself taming his Duchess by exercising the ultimate form of control and power over her through murdering her, okay? So guys, the first major theme that you should anticipate and prepare for when it comes to power and conflict is the theme of power. Power of institutions, power of individuals. And the best poems that fit into this are London, Ozymandias and My Last Duchess and I would argue that these quotations here are the ones that are the most hard-hitting. You can talk about language, they cover language form and structure but also of course, remember the rhyme scheme of London for your form point, sonic form for Ozymandias and of course the use of dramatic monologue. Of course, the second and most obvious theme is the theme of war and conflict, okay? And I would suggest, if you are asked about the theme of war and conflict, either one of these poems will come up as like your main one, okay? And then of course, I would suggest if you have any of these as your main one, you know, consider whichever you think you're strongest in and then use that as your substitute second poem, okay? So of course, you've got like reggae, Bennett charge, war photographer, remains and poppies. Now, if you are revising charge like reggae, remember in terms of talking about form and structure, it's laid out in six stanzas and this written almost is like a really repetitive song with a refrain, okay? Now, the first refrain is this idea of how the 600 wrote, okay? So wrote the 600, there's constant repetition of this and this is obviously emphasizing how patriotic and brave these guys are even in the face of certain death. That's the first quotation. The second quotation of course is this illusion and this reference to Psalm 23, how they charge into the value of death, which is a metaphor. The next quotation is, I would suggest, remembering just the one word, blundered. Somebody had blundered. Basically they acted on false commands and they went as a light brigade to just 600 men and they went up against a much larger brigade, right? So the light brigade, they acted on false information and in spite of somebody blundering, they still charged ahead. The next quotation of course is canon two, canon to the right of them, canon to the left of them and the final one is how they were stormed out with shot and shell, okay? So you've got lots of alliteration here. That is what I would suggest remembering for light brigade. I think light brigade is actually quite a nice poem. If it were to come up for the war and conflict slash kind of like the war theme, I think there's a lot you can talk about in this idea. It's the only poem actually within the collection in the pound conflict collection where you've got this very, very clear ideals of patriotism. So a lot of the other poems are very critical of war. There's always this underlying message that this shouldn't have happened anyway. Whilst charge of light brigade appears to indicate that even if the deaths happen, it's still something that's made these noble 600 quite heroic, okay? So it's an interesting poem because of all the war poems, it seems to kind of hint that even if they died, actually we should still praise the idea that they charged bravely and patriotically into their deaths. Now the next poem to select definitely is bear net charge. This one has come up twice in the past, right? So I believe it was the 2017 paper and I believe possibly either the 2019 or 2020 paper. So I don't think it's gonna be like one of the main poems where you ask, okay, compare bear net charge and one other poem. I don't think so because it's come up twice in the past. But I still think if you decide to choose it as like your comparison poem, you can talk lots about it. Now, the quotations to select, always remember in terms of form, it's written in free verse, but firstly this idea of how suddenly he awoke and starts in media reign, the middle of action. Also, we can see that unlike the Light Brigade, so there's a good contrast between the two. Light Brigade, they're really patriotic, they face a certain death with valiancy, with bravery, that's what makes them heroes. In contrast, you've got this soldier who's very frightened, he's quite young and he's almost trying to run away. All these patriotic values that he went into a war fighting for, he suddenly forgets them. And this is illustrated through the fear that's shown in him, because this fear is like molten iron in his heart. Of course, he forgets his patriotic values through this listing, the king, honor, human dignity, et cetera. All of those fly out of his head like luxuries. And the final quotation is this idea of his touchy's terror dynamite, okay? So that's the quotations I would suggest for bare-knit charge. Now with War Photographer, which is a modern war poem written in four sets, okay, it's laid out in six lines, that's the form of observation. Of course, remember how the photographer is described as looking at spools of suffering, which is surveillance. And he's described as taking his job quite seriously. He really wants people in England to know the suffering that people are going through, because he does it. He kind of develops these images like a priest, okay? So this is really, really powerful. Obviously, the turning point in the poem is this metaphor, half-formed ghost. So he obviously looks at one image in particular and it reminds him of this man that was dying and all he did was just take a picture of them. And finally, this hyperbole at the end of the final stanza, A Hundred Agonies, this hyperbole illustrates how lots of people in England who read the Sunday supplement, they see all of this suffering, but because it's happening in a foreign country they don't really care, and he feels very disillusioned about it, okay? That's the War Photographer. Now, two more poems before we move on to the next themes, right? So Remains, which is the poem where you've got the guy that experiences PTSD, is written in free verse in terms of form. I think the opening stanza where he talks about how the man, the looter that he killed was probably armed, possibly not, this alliteration here, but also this kind of parallelism in this sentence illustrates that he doubted whether it was the right move to kill this foreign person. Of course, at first we can see that it's very casual because he uses the words mates and legs up the road to show that he wasn't really on the surface too affected by killing this innocent man, but and also he then says end of story, except not really, which is a turning point because we find that he actually is very haunted by this and he talks about the drink and the drugs, alliteration and right at the end, especially for those of you that are very familiar with Macbeth, when Lady Macbeth sees the spots of blood on her hands, our message kind of borrows from this when he says how this man can see his bloody life in my bloody hands, right? So this is a reference to Lady Macbeth who's hallucinating and seeing the blood of the dead man on her hands. The final poem within this collection is, of course, which is written in free verse. So the first quotation I would suggest remembering is a listing, right? So flattened, rolled, turned and developed, but also what this poem is illustrating is how war affects the families of the people who've gone off at war, right? So the mother seems very, very fearful about her son and it's unclear whether her son dies, right? So firstly, she is fearful of the fact that her son does not understand he can actually die and there's so many like a treasure chest shows her son in contrast to her is very excited but he doesn't understand the realities of war. And finally, when she goes to the graveyard and leans against something like a wishbone, so this seemingly illustrates that she's having this inner conflict. On the one hand, she knows that it's so important for soldiers to sacrifice their lives for the country, but on the other hand, she struggles the idea that her own son might die for her country and it's left kind of ambiguous at the end of the poem whether her son has died, okay? So that's that for power. Literally, when you're revising these are, I would argue the main poems that would come up, if you had a power question, London on demand is my last touches and of course, these war and conflict poems now. As I mentioned, the other key theme to bear in mind is the theme of nature, how nature's power is conveyed. And what's really interesting is nature has never really come up in the past paper questions. So I think it's one of the poems that I would suggest maybe looking out for or one of the themes I would suggest maybe kind of becoming very familiar with. And I would say in terms of the power of nature, these are the three main poems to the prelude, Exposure and Storm of the Island, that you should be able to be super, super familiar with inside out. Obviously arguably you can also add maybe Ozzy Mandius, okay, so obviously it's showing the power of nature and toppling a statue, but I think really, really strong, strong powerful points can be made with these three, okay? So beginning with preludes, Tristan and Freebus, okay? And this poem obviously illustrates words owned journey, so the poet's own journey in firstly thinking that nature is like this powerless, harmless thing that he has control over, but then he shifts once he realizes that this mountain is like chasing him. At the end of the poem, he realizes that nature has a really dark and destructive side. And this is shown through the following quotes, right? So firstly, he starts off using this oxymoron, this idea of him stealing, the boat was an act of trouble, pleasure. This oxymoron is illustrating that he is kind of cheeky when he goes out, steals the boat, the lake and nature all around him seems to be very passive as he's kind of, you know, going for a midnight row along the lake. And this is also illustrated through the words moon and stars. We call this celestial language. He uses celestial language here to illustrate how he feels like he's got this dominance as a man over nature, okay? This is in contrast to the mountain, which is described through these really, really powerful adjectives and actually the repetition also is huge. So the mountain which strode after him was huge, black and huge. This mountain is illustrated as being quite terrifying. It's shown the dark side of nature. And finally, he realizes that he's haunted by this realization that nature can be quite dark because he talks about how there were no repetition of no, so no trees, no fields, there were no familiar shapes, okay? So the poem starts off with him thinking that man has power over nature and it ends with him realizing that nature has power over him. This is quite similar in terms of structure to storm on the island. Because storm on the island starts off with the people on this island building, preparing, thinking that they have power over this coming storm. So they think, okay, we've got this. Even if the storm is coming, we as human beings can do everything in our power and prevent it from attacking us and prevent it from having any impact on us. But then by the end of the poem, just like Wordsworth and Prelude, they realize that they're actually quite powerless and they're powerless against nature and they're really terrified, even if nothing happens to them, okay? So I'm gonna quickly go over storm on the island before looking at exposure because I think Prelude and storm on the island does some really, really nice overlaps if you would ask a question on nature, if say Prelude or storm on the island came up, use the other, because if they mirror each other really well. So in storm on the island, obviously the first quotation we're prepared which has Cesaro here, this is showing that they think that they have control and power and dominance as human beings over this oncoming storm. And of course also in terms of form, it's written in free verse. Now the next quotation, which is showing that they're starting to doubt the power that they have is they're talking about how a storm can raise a tragic chorus, so this gale. And tragic chorus, especially chorus is onomatopoeia, is showing how a very calm nature can suddenly turn and become very violent. More so, they mentioned how the sea is exploding comfortably and this oxymoron is illustrating how once more, the sea can be quite calm, very beautiful, but also quite terrifying and dark. And also it can drown people, can murder people. And the final quotation which illustrates that they are waiting and they're scared and suddenly the sense of certainty and power over nature that they think they have has gone is when they say that space is a salvo. So here, this sibilance which talks about how space is almost like shooting at them, even if nothing's happened, it illustrates just like the prelude that they've started realizing that they ultimately as humans don't have power of nature. Has far more power over them, okay? And the final poem which goes really, really well with nature is exposure. In terms of structure, remember that it's written in this particular rhyme scheme, so A, B, B, A, C, okay? Now, exposure from the start to the end just shows the harsh brutality of nature. It's just constantly attacking these guys. Actually what's ironic and what Wolfrit Owen is illustrating is how in the First World War, lots and lots of men ended up dying because of nature, because of the cold conditions and the conditions and the trenches made worse by nature, then through actual fighting and combat. And this is illustrated through how he begins while saying that the merciless ice east winds knife us with ellipses and this personification is illustrating how nature is quite brutal, it's quite menacing. Also the other quotation to remember if you forget everything else with exposure is the repetitive reference to but nothing happens which again, there's this sense of irony. You always imagine in our heads when people go off to war, they're always fighting, they're always fighting. But he's actually illustrating that there's no fighting at all. The periods of fighting are like very few and far between but actually it's nature that's attacking them constantly and making them lose the sense of hope. The next quotation is which has shown that the snow falls and nature just keeps on attacking, attacking, attacking is how he describes the snowflakes that flock, pause and renew, rule of three. And finally the use of army language. Army, bullets and war, okay? So obviously it's showing that nature is at war with man. Now this is the final set of themes which is related to the final four poems in the collection, okay? So maybe you could also anticipate getting an identity question. Now identity is specifically related to emigrate, kamikaze checking out my history and tissue which is arguably like the most unpopular poem. And honestly, I personally feel like I don't think tissue is gonna be like if you got like an identity question, I don't think tissue is gonna be the main one but it's usually a good poem to kind of be aware of, right? So if you decided, okay, out of all 15 poems I'm gonna take the risk of like maybe not looking at tissue I think that's an okay risk but just make sure you are very, very well versed with emigrate, kamikaze checking out my history. Now with emigrate, formalize and structure, you wanna mention and observe the fact that it's written in three stanzas and how it begins which illustrates the strong sense of identity that the speaker feels when it comes to the home that they left behind as an emigrant is when they describe how this place seemed almost like a perfect place that they've left behind. The once was a country is the first sentence and they even used the ellipsis to illustrate that how they remember this place is quite flowery, quite rosy, it's almost like this fairy tale where they've left behind. Also, of course, we know that this, their memory is a little bit unreliable because we learned that they left it as a child. The other quotation which is showing that her identity, the longer the time passes in the new foreign country, the more her identity fades is through the fact that she's starting to forget her language, okay? So her vocabulary is like a hollow doll and it starts being erased and she starts feeling, we can sense a strong sense of anxiety about her identity being slowly eroded. Now the next quotation which is in the final stanza is how her city is personified as a sliver, as this beautiful woman and we're told that my city takes me dancing through the city. So you've got repetition of the city which is also personified as this beautiful woman. Now, the other poem which illustrates identity and it illustrates the specific identity of kamikaze pilots who fought in the Second World War and they were from Japan, so they're basically suicide pilots is in kamikaze when we learn that the speaker or rather the speaker who's the daughter of the pilot remembers and recalls how perhaps her father at the beginning was really excited to become a kamikaze pilot because she talks about how at first when the poem begins, her father was really excited for this one-way journey into history and this hyperbole illustrates the excitement her father had to serve and die for his country. However, when he looks down at nature and she uses language but onto the semantic field of nature to see son and pebbles, nature suddenly changes his mind. He suddenly realizes that he wishes to live for his family and he wishes also to live for his father and brother. Okay, so the word father is repeated twice when he's remembering his own dad who they'd play around by the seaside. They play as a waiting for him to come back as a fisherman but the speaker also refers to her own father. Okay, so it's obviously his love for family that overwrites that's more important than his identity as a kamikaze pilot. And of course, this leads even if he does the noble thing of not dying so that he can live out the rest of his days with his family. His family actually rejects him and ostracizes him and this is illustrated when he realizes that he maybe made a mistake and he almost falls back to walking dead because he wonders which had been the better way to die. Now the last two poems in the identity part of the collection are Checking Out My History Tissues. Checking out my history, you've got a speaker who's really, really angry. He's questioned the British education system not teaching him about black figures in history, basically non-European figures in history, right? So here he's saying that his identity as a Caribbean man is weak because he's not taught any part of his own history. He's only taught about European history and he's very critical about it. And this is shown through the repetitive reference of them tell me, which is shown that the speaker's really angry. He's really angry at the British education system. Remember that John A. God himself is also Caribbean. The other quotation that illustrates this and shows that he feels that there's almost this decision in the British education system to misguide black and Caribbean students and not teach them about their history is when he says that they banish up my eye to my history, right? So again, here he's saying that they're deliberately misleading him and not teaching him about his own identity. The next quotations are the two historical figures that he learns about. So Tusson, this is the slave, the Haitian slave who then leads the First Black Republic. And Marie Seacole, she's basically the black equivalent of Florence Nightingale, a nurse who went and helps in the Crimean War but her achievements were never recognized. And the final quotation is when he says at the end that he is carving me identity. Final, final poem to remember is tissue. So this one is kind of depending on how confident you are with the pound conflict poems and especially this poem and its message. I would suggest this is the only one where maybe if you remember just one or two quotations just be a piece of mind if you can go in and remember these in your exams. However, if you're kind of not that strong, I think if you wanted to really, really make a bit of a gamble, it's probably the only poem which I don't think is gonna be like your main poem. However, remember tissue is purely talking about how something as fragile as paper has the power to shape and form and mold our identities. It molds our religions, it molds our histories, countries and ultimately all of this molds who we are, right? Because it ends by saying that all of this turns into our skin, okay? So that's what tissue is basically talking about and the quotations that illustrate this are firstly when the speaker says, paper ellipses lets the light shine through. This idea of light is this notion that paper enlightens us, it teaches us something, right? And of course this is a metaphor. It's showing how paper is so powerful. Something as fragile as paper, there's almost this contrast, right? So something as fragile as paper can cause wars and even shape us as people but it's something that can easily be ripped off. The other quotation that illustrates tissue and the power of paper and how paper really, we even rely on it to learn about ourselves is how these pages are smoothed and stroked and turned, okay? And you've got reader three here which illustrates the power that paper has to shape people's identities. Third and final quotation from tissue or third and fourth. Firstly, maps two and you've got Cesaro here which is used to illustrate how paper is also used to shape countries and geographies and finally how this paper can be turned into your skin. So it shapes and carbs your identity. So guys, as I mentioned, the best way to approach the power and conflict collection of poems is 15 poems and it can be very difficult and overwhelming to know. Okay, so I've got to remember all of these poems. How can I even practice? How can I even prepare for it? I will suggest that you draw in the grid kind of like this, right? So you've got the four main themes. You've got power, you've got nature, you've got conflict and you've got identity and these are the poems that you can subdivide it into and even more so, these are the language and structure and form points and observations you can make. As I mentioned guys, after this grid, what I want to do is maybe look at one or maybe two past paper questions. I'm going to write it out but actually before I do that, I'm going to check if there's anything in the comments but what I'll do is I'll write out maybe one of the questions. Not answer the full theme but show you guys how, let's say a nature question comes up or let's say a power question, right? So it wouldn't be nature or identity because these two haven't come up but let's say a power question or a conflict question. How can you write a comparative paragraph? What does the comparative grade nine paragraph look like if you were to write about any of these two poems for your exam? So what I'm going to first do is look at the comments and see if there's any questions but if not, I'm literally going to pick one of these poems, I'm thinking maybe. So then it charges come up twice. I might pick that or maybe like the remains question. So this is the November 2020 exam. So I might pick that and then show you guys how you can literally apply that knowledge based on, so for example, if I wanted to go with a warm conflict how you can write a grade nine comparative paragraph comparing the two poems, okay? So I'm going to first check comments. If there's no comments, I'm literally going to just dive straight into it, okay? So how do I check comments? There doesn't seem to be any comments guys. So what I might do is I'm literally going to go into, is that Macbeth? Okay, so guys it seems like you're talking about something completely different. So what I'm going to do guys, I'm going to dive into, I'm just looking if there's any other comments. There doesn't seem to be any questions guys. So how would you compare? Okay, so how would you compare emigre and kamikaze? Okay, emigre and kamikaze. Okay, so guys would you like me to go over emigre and kamikaze because I was going to actually look at just a past paper question. Okay, so I'm going to go over emigre and kamikaze, okay? So I'm going to go over emigre and kamikaze and then I don't know if you're able to actually see nature. Okay, so emigre and kamikaze and maybe a nature question and how do you, Bennett charge? Guys, I'm going to go over, okay, so emigre kamikaze, nature question, I think that's a good one. Past paper, guys, like a full full on model answer, that one I might do tomorrow maybe, okay? Like a full full on model answer. By the way, guys, introduction conclusion doesn't have to be the introduction conclusion. So your thesis statement, I would say maybe five, six lines. Yeah, I would agree, like not too long and just dive straight into it, okay? So guys, I'm going to show you guys how to write like a comparative question, like an identity question, comparing emigre and kamikaze, then I'll look at maybe another question, I'm just looking at nature, possibly actually a nature question, so how to compare like one of the nature questions. So guys, I'm going to rub this off and then show you guys how to compare, so how to compare emigre and kamikaze, because I think maybe identity could be an interesting one. So maybe perhaps how is identity shown. So I'm going to make up a question guys on this spot, given that it's not a past paper question and then I'll show you guys how you can include some of this, maybe how to write a grade nine paragraph, comparing emigre and kamikaze, here we go. Right, so let's say you want to write a grade nine model answer, let's say identity, comparing emigre and kamikaze. Let's say how do the authors present identity? Okay, so compare, this is terrible. Right, so compare how, compare how poets present identity in emigre and one other poem. So let's say you get like a question like this, right? Compare how poets present identity in emigre and one other poem. Now in terms of answering this question, so let's say you decide to compare emigre and kamikaze, how identity is shown, the three main points I've considered, I'd maybe think about say two similarities and one difference or maybe two differences and one similarity. The first way that poets present identity in kamikaze and emigre is we can see that both poets present the speakers as being powerfully shaped by their, I would say maybe past identities. In the case of kamikaze, he's directly shaped by being a pilot and an emigre, she is shaped by her identity of her home, country and her identity as an emigrant, a migrant. Right, so that'll be the first point I'll probably talk about, right? And this is a similarity. The idea that both poets present the speakers as being really, really powerfully shaped by their past identities. And I think this would be a really, really interesting point to make. I think the other point when you're thinking about how identity is portrayed in both emigre and kamikaze is whilst the speaker, this is a speaker in emigre, in emigre maintains a loyalty. And I would even say she maintains a fierce loyalty to her identity. She even wants to stick to her language, she wants to remember her roots and so on. The pilot in kamikaze for sakes, his identity, right? So this would be actually a contrast I'd consider if I were to write about kamikaze and emigre. First similarity is actually, both of them are really powerfully shaped by their identities. Emigrant and emigre is really, really vividly shaped by her identity as an emigrant. The idea that she left this country which she yearns to always go back to, but she can't because it's filled with tyrants. But the difference point I'll probably talk about is the fact that the speaker in emigre maintains a loyalty to her identity. No matter how long she's been away from this country, she still vividly remembers it, she still celebrates it and still sees it as a perfect place. Once more, even if she can never go back. She even says I have no passport. She can never go back but she still fiercely clings onto this sense of identity. Yet the pilot in kamikaze, once he looks at nature, he realizes actually his identity, he questions his identity as a kamikaze pilot. He stops caring about dying for his country and he prefers to swap out that identity as a pilot for his family. So he actually loses that strong sense of identity. So that would be the contrast point. Maybe if he had enough time to write three comparative paragraphs. The final point when you're considering how identity is shown is both speakers or both speakers' identities are shaped or the present identities are shaped by a definitive moment from the past, which continues to impact their present. And what I mean by this is the emigrant who had to leave her country, she still continues even in the present to yearn to go back to this country. She almost does it and doesn't even realize that she ignores her present reality in the new host country, right? So she's an emigrant, she's left her country. However, the pilot in kamikaze, he equally is shaped his, the definitive moment that shaped his identity. So the definitive moment that shaped the emigrant's identity is migrating and leaving. The definitive moment that shaped his identity in the present is aborting mission and deciding not to go ahead with the suicide mission. But then what happens is then now his community completely excludes him. It ostracizes him and he becomes a shadow of his former self, right? So he then continues, he now starts to regret his decision to forsake and abandon his mission. And his present reality is one which seems to be very sad, very melancholic and so on, okay? So if I were to talk about identity and how identity is illustrated in emigrate, I'd first begin by talking and creating a paragraph relating to how the speakers are powerfully shaped by the past identities. Kamikaze, he was a pilot that shaped his identity. This is his identity. Emigrate, the identity of her home country as an emigrant shapes her. Difference point for my second paragraph would be whilst the speaker in emigrate maintains a loyalty to her identity, the pilot for sexes identity that would be second point and it would be a contrast. Final point would be while both speakers' identities are shaped by a definitive moment from the past and it continues to impact them in the present, right? So the definitive moment in the past that shaped the emigrant is leaving her country. And also I suppose the tyrants who led her to leave her country as a child, the definitive moment for the pilot is seeing the fish, the seeing nature and then deciding actually to turn back in abort mission but then that leaves him completely isolated because the rest of his family basically ostracize him. They treat him like he's not one of them, okay? So guys, what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna quickly check if there's any particular point that you guys want me to write a model response for. If not, I'm literally just gonna pick one of them and then actually write a response, okay? So let me see if there's any questions. Oh, actually guys, would you like me to write a response to this? So can we have a contrasting or similar quote? Contrasting. Guys, the contrasting, yes. So guys, you can have all similar or all contrasting. Let's have a look. So guys, would you like me to go over one of the paragraphs? Okay, so I'm gonna pick the first paragraph where both of them are powerfully shaped with their identities. No, I mean, can you give us examples? Yes, guys, I'm giving examples, a mix of contrasting and similar. Yes, you can do a mix of contrasting and similar. So guys, I'm gonna pick one of the points. I'm gonna pick point number one and show you guys how you can put together the idea that both speakers or rather both poets present the speakers are being powerfully shaped by the past identities, okay? So I'm gonna pick that one out and then I'm gonna use that as the, I guess, model response. So I'm gonna go with this. So I'm gonna remove this. And obviously guys, as you can see, this is just like a very basic plan. So now in my response, I'm gonna firstly include my quotations, my chosen quotes. Actually, I'm gonna remove this too just to give myself a bit of space. Now guys, in terms of structuring your model paragraphs, let me try and use different colors. Okay, in terms of structuring your points and your paragraphs, my suggestion is open your first opening point, which I'm gonna put in brief, with using keywords from the questions. Let's say this is the question that comes up, right? How do the poets present identity in emigre? Your opening point is, is it similar? Is it different? What I'm talking about and what I'm going to mention is how both of them have a strong sense of identity. So my opening point, both speakers or both characters and narrators in kamikaze and emigre have a strong sense of identity. The speaker in emigre has a strong sense of identity which is connected to her country that she's left behind whilst the father, the pilot in kamikaze has a strong sense of identity as a pilot initially as the poem begins. Then I'm gonna add my evidence from both poems talking about how is this illustrated the sense of identity in poem one, poem two, which I'm gonna use in a different color. Then in my explanation, in addition to talking about techniques, I'm gonna mention context before linking back to the question. So looking at this question, how would I begin? I would say because it's a similarity point that I'm mentioning in my opening points, I'm gonna put this in blue, both speakers or both poets in the emigre and kamikaze depict individuals or people with a powerful sense of identity In fact, when both poems begin, the narrator in Ruhman's poem, Ruhman's, by the way, is the poet for emigre. So the narrator in Ruhman's poem has a deep sense of loyalty to her country. Similarly, the pilot at or in Garland's, the pilot in Garland's poem, the pilot in Garland's poem has a powerful sense of loyalty. For his country as a pilot or as a kamikaze pilot. So that's my opening point. So as you can see here, I'm already writing quite comparatively. So I start off by talking about how identity keyword is shown in both kamikaze and in emigre. So remember, when you're comparing the two poems, you want to integrate your comparison. So you're not writing one paragraph about one poem and another paragraph about another poem. Within the same paragraph, you want to integrate how the poems are similar or how they are different. You start off your point in this way where you're already integrating. So both poets in the emigre and kamikaze depict people with a powerful sense of identity. So I'm saying that both poems are showing similarities when it comes to the question of identity, when it comes to the keyword identity. In fact, when both poems begin, the narrator in Rumen's poem has a deep sense of loyalty to her country. Similarly, so this is now, I'm connecting why they are similar. Similarly, the pilot in Garland's poem has a powerful sense of loyalty for his country as a kamikaze pilot. That's my opening point where I'm integrating my comparison between the two poems and talking about how they're similar. Now this is how you embed your quotations in your evidence. So I'm keeping a constant reference back to both poems. I'm saying the similar in this way. Here's now the evidence which illustrates that they're similar. And both bits of evidence, I'm going to take it from the beginning of both poems, okay? So the emigrant in emigre recalls the once was a country. The once was a country dot, dot, dot. That's my evidence for emigrant. Similarly, or also, the narrator remembers the pilot was proud to embark. So the narrator shows the pilot was proud to embark on a one-way journey in two history. That is the evidence for the narrator even in kamikaze. Start off my opening point basically talking about how they are similar. Now here is my evidence. The emigrant in emigre. First bit of evidence. Recall the once was a country. So I have embedded my first quotation within this opening evidence. Then I've said also the narrator remembers the pilot was proud to embark on a evidence one-way journey into history in kamikaze. So as you can see, I'm constantly integrating my comparisons. Began by talking about how is the identity shown? Both of them are showing that identity is quite similar. Then I've added my two bits of evidence from emigre as well as kamikaze. Now in my explanation, this is where the bulk of my explanation is going to be. And I'm probably going to rub out some of it if I'll run out of space and then add my link, okay? So I'm going to use actually I'm going to use this colour for my explanation. So I'm going to begin by explaining the technique that Ruhmann's uses but also what does this illustrate contextually, okay? So Ruhmann's, this is a surname of the first poet. Ruhmann's uses ellipsis in her or the speakers opening sentence to convey that she saw her home country as if it were an enchanted place. Ruhmann's uses the poems three stanzas to convey the speaker's pride her home country and then now I'm going to add some context relating to Ruhmann's. So contextually this poem was used to illustrate the struggles Ruhmann's witnessed amongst refugees who had migrated yet was still loyal to their countries. So this is my first bit of explanation but it's tied to Ruhmann. This is tied to emigrate. What does this illustrate? I've mentioned the use of techniques so ellipsis. I've also talked about form but I've also linked it into context. So I've mentioned Ruhmann's uses ellipsis which is structure in the speakers opening sentence to convey so here now I'm going into detail dissecting this to convey that she saw her home country as if it were an enchanted place. Ruhmann's uses the poems three stanzas so now here I'm talking about form to convey the speaker's pride in her home country. Now they're not going to move into context. Contextually this poem was used to illustrate the struggles Ruhmann's witnessed amongst refugees who had migrated yet were still loyal to their country. So I've talked about technique structure I've mentioned form but I've also talked about context but I need to now do the same for kamikaze. So likewise whoop likewise garland garland so here I've talked about the ones as a country one-way journey. So she uses hyperbole to illustrate the pilot's pride in serving his country. She uses free verse to reflect the pride many kamikaze pilots felt during World War II. So here she reflects I'm trying to squeeze as much as I can without having to rub anything out right so I've then added Beatrice Garland right so Garland basically says so likewise Garland uses hyperbole which is a language observation journey to history to illustrate the pilot's pride in serving his country. She uses free verse this is form to reflect the pride many kamikaze pilots felt so this is now identity during World War II. So here I've talked about context so I'm going to try and squeeze in a link back to the question and then I'm going to read through this paragraph to kind of show you how to piece together a comparative paragraph. Thus oh God I'm struggling here so thus both poems depict the speakers or the speakers is initial pride in their identities when they reflected or basically because identities when they served or when they reflected on the roles they played for their countries okay so this is the link back to the question talking about how both are similar okay so guys I'm going to read through and hopefully is kind of legible but what I might do tomorrow in tomorrow's live depending on whether people want me to do more power conflict I'm going to literally have a live where I've got like the actual paper and then I'll maybe go over one model answer but this is kind of like a model paragraph showing how I've pieced together in my opening point both poems evidence at both poems explanation of included techniques and language structure as well as form but equally context and then simply links back to the question and talks about how they are both similar okay so I'm going to kind of read through this and then I'm going to check if there's anything in the comments that you guys need to make me to make clear okay so question being identity how is identity illustrated so I've started off both posts in the emigrate and kamikaze depicts people with a powerful sense of identity so that's I've began by talking about how they're similar they're both showing people the really really strong sense of identity in fact when both poems begin the narrator in Ruman's poem has a deep sense of loyalty to her country that's the identity for poem number one emigrate similarly so now I'm saying that this is another similar point the pilot in Garland's poem has a powerful sense of loyalty for his country as a kamikaze pilot that's my opening point I'm basically saying they are really really similar here's my evidence the emigrant in emigrate recalls the once was a country so that's evidence for emigrate also the narrator remembers the pilot was proud to embark on a one-way journey into history in kamikaze so I've started off my point then added two bits of evidence from both now here there's the black writing this is now where I go into techniques as well as context okay Ruman uses ellipsis so this is the first technique structure in the speaker's opening sentence to convey that she saw her home country as if it were an enchanted place Ruman's uses the poems three stanzas are mentioning form and structure to convey the speaker's pride in her home country so I'm linking it back to emigrate and identity contextually this poem was used to illustrate the struggles Ruman witnessed amongst refugees who had migrated yet were still loyal to their countries so that's the point I've made about emigrate now this is the analysis I'm doing for kamikaze likewise Garland poet of kamikaze uses hyperbole which is language referring back to the quotation to illustrate the pilot's pride in serving his country she uses free verse form and structure to reflect the pride many kamikaze pilots felt during World War II so I've made a context reference then I'll simply link back to the question how is identity mentioned and how is it illustrated so thus both poems depict the speaker's initial pride in their identities when they reflected on the roles they played for their country so that's a paragraph which is illustrating how you can integrate a discussion between the two poems so again guys I'm going to look at the comments and then maybe see if you guys want me to do an additional nature one but I don't think let's see if you're able to see the final link back to the question I'll move this just a little bit so guys let's see if there's any questions any questions guys or any comments so let's see blood brothers guys blood brothers I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do that on a live so guys it doesn't seem like there seems to be any question can you do a question for question to do with conflict anthology yeah guys this is conflict anthology oh no guys I'm not doing edXL I'm doing AQA okay Bennett Charge okay so Bennett Charge conflict has conflicts shown okay so guys if you want me to do a conflict one guys I think the predictions I did with Mr. Salays and it's out like at 4pm so guys if you want to see the predictions go on to and watch that video okay so guys it seems like you are so one second okay so guys do you want me to go over a final paragraph on nature or thank you for the last okay so guys it doesn't seem like there's awesome it's really good to see that you did really well okay guys do you want nature or war because I've probably only got enough time to do just one extra paragraph nature okay so nature nature rather than war okay so I'm going to do nature because if it was war I'd probably just take one of the past paper questions okay so two more please Bennett Charge nature storm of the island and exposure okay actually guys if nature comes up I keep on mentioning this a really really good comparison for storm of the island would be prelude so this is the power of nature power of nature is a really really good one to anticipate right so power of nature how is because I think storm of the island and as I mentioned storm of the island and prelude they don't actually seem very similar but they actually share lots and lots of similarities okay guys I'm going to do a power of nature so let's say the question could be compare how poets present the power of nature in let's say storm of the island and then one other poem right guys I'll show you how easy it is to compare storm of the island and prelude they don't seem to actually overlap but they they compare really really well okay so I'm going to actually use my tissue now to rub this out and then I'm going to think about so let's do nature let's consider how the power of nature is shown because I think that would be a really interesting one as I mentioned guys I'm going to make up the nature question because nature has never really come up so identity is one that's not come up nature hasn't come up so war is the is the most popular AQA question that keeps on coming up obviously try to practice war in case yet another war poem comes up on Wednesday but I think definitely it's worth also practicing identity and nature in case AQA is like oh we haven't really asked these questions because really my prediction was mainly focused on I think AQA will decide to just do a different theme so war has come up lots of times as has power so power and control has also come up so I think either nature possibly identity right I think identity is kind of like 50-50 but I think if AQA decides to throw in like a new theme I think it would be a nature one so let's consider how the power of nature because that's really the general theme in this anthology right how's the power of nature shown how can we see the power of nature in the poems so let's go over that and I'll show you guys how to write you know response and things to essay ideas to consider when you're comparing power of nature in prelude and let's say storm on the island because as I mentioned I think both of them have some really really nice overlaps it actually if nature comes up and you've got either storm on the island or what's the other one storm on the island or prelude I think both of them would work really really well together okay so let me show you guys a plan and then I'll just pick one of the random ones and then write a paragraph kind of like this I'll try not to squeeze too much towards the bottom I'll try to kind of like separate out a bit more okay so let me find right so let's say the question asks how is the power of nature shown so compare the way poets present the power of nature in let's say the prelude and one other poem so as I mentioned power of nature is definitely one of the major themes and lots of the poems illustrate how nature ultimately always has way more power than human beings okay so of course the key words in this question is power of nature so in terms of actually planning out your responses I mentioned I would suggest go for three comparative paragraphs at minimum right so similarity, similarity difference maybe you know it could be all similarities or all differences depending on what you think you know works best it's all about what you can have the most to talk about and the most ideas to bring up okay so in terms of power of nature in terms of planning ideas in your response I think the first similarity in terms of power of nature is both prelude and storm the island so I'm going to just call it storm show humans believing and this is mistakenly believing they have more power than nature but ultimately they are reminded that nature can be menacing and powerful so the first similarity which I think is a really nice overlap with both is both prelude and storm the island start off with both human beings so this is the community in storm of the island as well as the speaker in prelude starting off being really arrogant thinking that they have lots of control and power over nature ultimately though they realize nature can be quite menacing and quite powerful okay so they begin with this mistaken idea that they have way more power than nature that would be the first point and it's quite similarity point the second point is both prelude and storm of the island illustrates so this is to do with power of nature they illustrate nature is a predator waiting to attack so I think what's really interesting about the second point is if you look at the way prelude describes the man he's on the boat he's rowing and he's talking about the stars which are glittering idly the silent lake similarly to storm of the island this idea of this tame cat right so the ocean which proves company and it's like a tame cat so at first both nature in both of them appear to be really really passive but it's almost like nature deliberately seems passive so that it can launch this attack the surprise attack and what this is illustrating is nature actually is quite powerful and it's actually quite predatorial right it's like a predator it's prowling it's acting like it's passive so that you let your guard down as a human being before it attacks you right so that would be another really really interesting similarity the third and as I mentioned you can talk about all similarities all differences right so let's say if you decide okay do you know what there's so many similarities because I think there's loads of similarities between prelude and storm of the island because both of them end so both end by showing the people are frightened of nature's power it seems to be quite threatening and they almost seem poised for like this impending attack so at first they begin by saying oh no no no nature is amazing it's fine we as humans will waste your all the nature we're going to reinforce we're going to have all of these reinforcements we're going to have you know we basically have way more power than nature so that's the storm of the island prelude he basically is very very arrogant you know he can cheekily see still the boat he can go out rowing you know he's got this nature's just really really passive then the mountain chases after him then at the end of this really really long poem prelude he's really haunted by this realisation that nature is threatening he's so haunted that he's even having nightmares about it right because the final final sentence in prelude is they were this realisation was a trouble to my dreams right what this is illustrating is just like storm of the island they end by illustrating humans as fear of the power of nature which is threatening it's menacing it's scary right and of course this realisation seems to haunt both the islanders in storm of the island right they're sitting and waiting but of course it also seems to haunt the man words were specifically himself who's basically he's looking at nature but it doesn't seem the same right so he talks about no images of of trees no pleasant images he's looking at the same nature but he's now realising that it has this very dark side to it right so as I mentioned guys I think prelude and storm of the island if one or the other came up if you say you've got a nature question if you see prelude you should literally jump on comparing it with storm of the island vice versa if you get a storm of the island question jump and compare it with prelude because it has so many amazing similarities obviously if you want to have a difference point so let's say you decide oh no no no I do want to have a difference point I probably will just talk about similarities right so if we are in your position I'll probably just say similarity one similarity two similarity three for my three paragraphs but let's say you're like no no no I want to also make sure I've got like a nice difference to balance it out you can maybe talk about the fact that this is maybe like an individual point the idea that how the the storm in storm of the island the the idea behind it is it's almost representing this political storm because if you remember hopefully you know this context right so storm of the island by Seamus Haney he grew up in Northern Ireland and if you guys know any of your history relating to IRA and the political problems that Northern Ireland has constantly maybe been facing with England historically because it's wanted to separate away from England and not be part of the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland but actually joined the Irish Republic okay you can make the discussion when you're considering the power of nature nature is used in storm of the island to reflect the political storm the impending political storm and the continuous political storm that Haney himself saw between Northern Ireland the place that he grew up in and of course Britain right so you've got that in contrast to Wordsworth himself who's just simply a romantic right so he's a poet who was in the 1700s he thought nature was amazing and perhaps you could maybe say that him realising this shifting side of nature is kind of illustrating and anticipating the shifts that would happen in society at the time as it was heading to industrial revolution people are going to forsake the countryside the forsaking nature and shifting towards the cities factories etc right so the difference maybe you could show is the power of nature so whilst the menacing power of nature is used by Haney so this is Haney the poet of storm of the island so it's used by Haney surname of storm of the island to reflect the political storm in Northern Ireland I'm going to put N.I. for Northern Ireland nature and its power is used by Wordsworth to reflect Wordsworth reflects the the impending threat of the industrial revolution in England right so this could be maybe a different point you can talk about but I personally think it's quite a tough point if you wanted to you can make it as long as you're able to clarify it in a clever way I would suggest though you don't have to do all of that you don't have to do all of this heavy lifting let's go for these initial points right nature power of nature is shown similarly firstly humans start off thinking that they have more power than nature but nature ultimately shows is powerful second point prelude and storm nature is illustrated as a predator third point similar by the end both the community on the island are really frightened of nature as are or as is Wordsworth in the prelude right so let me so I think I might go for the first paragraph so let me just remove this and then show you guys a final paragraph and then I'm probably going to wrap this thing up and maybe guys in the comments you can let me know I'm going to do a live tomorrow at 4 30 till 6 you can let me know if you want to see even more model answers right so maybe like you can tell me if there's one particular past paper you want me to go over with power and conflict or if you wanted me to move on to say unseen poetry what question you wanted me to tackle okay so that will be for tomorrow let me get fresh tissue what am I going to write I'm going to use I'm going to show you guys a model paragraph for this opening point right so this idea how humans think they have more power than nature but ultimately nature is shown as way more menacing and powerful I'm going to go for that one for my first paragraph and obviously my first paragraph I'm going to include an observation about context I'm also going to use include an observation about language and I'll mix in form and structure so let me again guys I'm going to kind of color coded to just kind of show you how I would write comparatively if I'll answer a question on nature comparing Storm of the Island and Prelude hopefully you can kind of see why I'm making the case for both of them going really well there's so many similarities and as I mentioned guys the questions tend to be you know compared the way so they don't say only write about similarities or only write about differences so if you have just like three really good similarities talk about just use them if there's three differences you want to mention use those instead okay you don't have to like say I must make sure I have one difference point and one similarity point if you have really great similarity points like say in the case of this question with Storm of the Island and Prelude go for that okay so starting off again my opening point this is a similarity right so both the Prelude and Storm on the Island so this is my opening point so I'm making like for life comparisons right so my opening point basically saying pen one does this, pen number two does this right so both the Prelude and Storm and the Island reveal or initially show both people assuming that they have far more power over nature they have power over nature not even far more power but literally just they have power over nature so probably say that not even far more the illustrate people assuming that they have power over nature none the less both poems end by illustrating nature ultimately asserting its control so I've started off my opening point by talking about how they both start off and is quite similar in terms of power of nature and then how they both end in terms of showing that nature is the one that still seems to be more powerful than humans so this is my opening point comparing both so both the Prelude, poem number one and Storm of the Island poem number two so storm on the island there we go initially so at first show both people assuming that they have power over nature so I'm basically making a comparison I'm talking and initially starting off by talking about both poems nonetheless both poems end by illustrating nature ultimately asserting its control in my opening paragraph I have mentioned keywords in the question but also from the opening shown that I'm making cross comparisons hence I am comparing I'm answering the question of getting my AO1, my AO2 and my AO3 okay obviously this is many AO1 but then now when I add my evidence I'm now hitting my AO2 and of course when I then talk about technique that's AO3 or AO2 and then when I add context that's when I'm going to be hitting my AO3 okay so here's my evidence for both right so in the Prelude the speaker steals a boat and this was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure here's my evidence for Prelude now I'm going to add my evidence for Storm and the Island similarly in now here I'm going to shorten this because this is quite a long title so similarly in Storm dot dot dot the islanders feel like we are prepared colon full stop okay I'm using colon because I'm going to make the mention in terms of terminology that they use sazura at the start of this poem okay so this is my evidence done okay so I'll start off with my opening points both Prelude and Storm and the Island initially showed both people assuming they have power over nature relating it to the question nonetheless both poems and by illustrating nature ultimately asserting its control that's my opening point then I add my evidence for both poems in the Prelude the speaker steals a boat and this was an act of now adding my first bit of evidence from Prelude it was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure similarly in Storm dot dot I'm not going to write the whole thing out the islanders feel like we are prepared now I'm going to go into my explanation I'm going to use purple for this one so I'm going to talk about the surnames of Storm and the Island Haney but also the surname Wordsworth so I'm either going to say the poets Wordsworth Haney or the writers okay so in this case I'm going to say Wordsworth surname of the first poet Wordsworth uses an oxymoron because I'm talking about stealth and troubled pleasure so troubled pleasure so oxymoron is now my A02 where I'm talking about subject terminology so Wordsworth uses an oxymoron to reveal the man's initial arrogance when he set off on the on a boat so when he set off on a boat and we sense he feels dominant initially now here I'm going to include some context this poem which is prelude is semi-autobiographical what this means is the prelude is actually used to reflect Wordsworth's own experience as a romantic poet romantic meaning not love poet but a poet we celebrated nature this poem is used to show how he initially used to feel really arrogant until he had control over nature and then it was an experience that shifted his viewpoint and his mindset right so here I'm going to now add contextually Wordsworth or the poet wanted to use the man to reflect his own initial arrogance he or as a romantic poet he used to believe so as a romantic poet as a romantic poet Wordsworth used to see nature as passive and innocent so here this or even this is reflected in his dramatic monologue so I've added a form observation so I've mentioned use of oxymoron I've also now added context AO3 and I've also added observation of form this is also language structure and observation this is AO2 so when you're talking about form this is your AO2 so here as you can see this purple section this is my explanation I've started off by talking about the lead poem which is prelude and how this illustrates the power of nature and this initial arrogance now I'm going to make a cross comparison and connect it to storm on the island so likewise Cainy surname of storm on the island uses Cesura in his opening sentence to convey the islanders initial self assurance and arrogance they felt prepared against the storm so here I have talked about Cesura which is structure contextually as someone who grew up in the Irish countryside so this is more context to do with Seamus, Cainy two bits of context with Seamus, Cainy number one Northern Ireland RA conflict this is the conflict aspect second more easier context point to do with Seamus, Cainy he grew up in the countryside his father was a farmer so he used the storm on the island and natural imagery to reflect his own lived experiences growing up on a farm so I'm going to use that slightly more straightforward context point okay so contextually as someone who grew up in the Irish countryside with a father who was a farmer Cainy uses natural imagery in the poem's singular stanza so I'm adding form and structure to convey how people tend to underestimate underestimate nature and see it as passive nonetheless nature ultimately asserts its power in both poems proving them wrong so now this is my analysis I've started off talking about both poems saying that they are similar when we consider the power of nature I've started off by saying both the prelude and storm on the island initially at first the beginning of both poems they initially show both people assuming that they have power over nature relating it back to the keywords and the question and the examiner I totally understand their assignment nonetheless both poems end by illustrating nature ultimately asserting its control basically stamping and saying no no no I have more power than you as humans that's my opening point here's my evidence talking about both I never lose sight of this comparative aspect within this question when you're writing power conflict answers do not put one paragraph about one poem that's not a comparison you need to integrate this is how to integrate so now this is the evidence in the prelude the speaker steals the vote and this was an act of evidence, stealth and trouble pleasure similarly in storm the islanders feel like we are prepared that's my evidence for both poems now this is the analysis and as you can see the analysis takes up the bulk of my paragraph because here I'm knocking off AO2 points I'm also knocking off AO3 which is context for both okay so here's my explanation starting off with prelude Wordsworth uses an oxymoron which is language to reveal the man's initial arrogance when he set off on a boat and we sense he feels dominant initially or maybe here this should be probably dominant at first right so he feels dominant because I've used initially quite a lot at first then I'll move on to talk about context contextually the poet wanted to use the man to reflect his own initial arrogance this is now Wordsworth as a romantic poet so now here I'm showing an awareness of the movement that William Wordsworth belonged to which is called the romantic era so as a romantic poet Wordsworth used to see nature as passive and innocent remember romantic poets are poets who lived between 1700s and 1800s William Blake was also a romantic poet they tended to believe that anything to do with nature was innocent nature was supposed to be close to nature anything to do with the city was corrupt so Wordsworth also believed that so as a romantic poet Wordsworth used to see nature as passive and innocent this is reflected in his dramatic monologue I've made a reference to form likewise now here I'm making a similarity point in my analysis to the second poem Hayney uses Cesura structure in his opening sentence to convey the islanders' initial self-assurance they were confident and arrogant as they felt prepared I've used the quotation again here against this storm contextually now I'm talking about context as someone who grew up in the Irish countryside with a father who was a farmer Hayney uses natural imagery in the poems as singular stanza form and structure to convey how people tend to underestimate nature and see it as passive nonetheless now I'm linking it back to both and talking about power of nature nature ultimately asserts its power in both poems proving them wrong now I simply need to finish off with linking back to the question hence whilst both speakers in the prelude and storm dot dot dot at first feel dominant as humans over nature their dominance is thwarted by a powerful nature linking it back to the questions the link is really really simple I'm just reasserting my point so hence, linking back whilst both speakers in the prelude and storm dot dot dot at first feel dominant as humans over nature their dominance is thwarted it's overthrown by a powerful nature so as I mentioned guys when you're comparing storm of the island prelude or any kind of comparative writing for power and conflict you are integrating the comparisons within the same paragraph so as I mentioned start off from our opening point both the prelude and storm of the island initially show both people assuming they have power over nature on the less growth poems and by illustrating nature ultimately asserting its control that's my opening point then I moved on into the evidence in the prelude the speaker steals a vote and this was an act of stealth and trouble pleasure similarly in storm the islanders feel like we are prepared that's my evidence step number two, step number three my explanation for both words were pieces of noxymoron to reveal the man's initial arrogance when he set off on a boat and we sense he feels dominant at first contextually the poet wanted to use the man to reflect his own initial arrogance as a romantic poet words were used to see nature as passive and innocent this is reflected in his dramatic monologue likewise Haley uses caesura in his opening sentence to convey the islanders this initial self-assurance and arrogance as they felt prepared against the storm contextually as someone who grew up in the Irish countryside with a father who was a farmer Haley uses natural imagery in the poem's singular standard to convey how people tend to underestimate nature and see it as passive nonetheless nature ultimately asserts its power in both poems proving them wrong that is my explanation where I've got my terminology I've also got my context for both so obviously it takes up the bulk of my discussion because this is where the bulk of your marks are this is now where you're really piecing together what does this illustrate when you think about the question then you finish off by linking hence whilst both speakers in the prelude and storm at first feel dominant as humans over nature the dominance is thwarted by a powerful nature so guys this is a model responsible nature or a model paragraph you want to try and do three of these at minimum in your exams so you want to try and do at least three comparative paragraphs it can either be all similarities or differences a mix of both is totally up to you the question is never just say compare how the poets show similarities and differences or just differences whatever that therefore means you have a bit of flexibility so it's up to you if you find some really really good similarities great differences great if you want to mix both fine as long as you develop them to this extent okay so guys as I mentioned this is going to be the final paragraph that I do I'm going to look at the comments if there's any comments or any final questions before I wrap up tomorrow I'm going to be going live from 4.30pm to 6pm so I'm going to be finishing off strictly at 6pm I'm going to put like a poll and see if people want to do more pound conflict or unseen parachute because when I put the poll up last week pound conflict was one that people were like no no no go over this so obviously I've gone over it if you want to do more pound conflict I'm going to literally do like a full model answer response tomorrow or if people want me to switch over to unseen definitely I can do unseen okay so guys if there's any questions but if not I am going to end today's live so there doesn't seem to be any questions so guys thank you so much for joining I'm going to finish off this live and I shall see those of you guys who join in tomorrow on the live how do you answer the 8 marker okay guys so it seems that people want to do unseen so I'm probably going to do unseen tomorrow thanks guys for joining in I hope you found this useful team hardcore revising on Sundays and guys I will head off glad to be of help and guys see those of you who want to go on 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