Comparing 'Neutral Tones' and 'When We Two Parted'
Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Natalie Rose
This comprehensive PowerPoint lesson on 'Neutral Tones' by Thomas Hardy and 'When We Two Parted' by Byron is designed for AQA's poetry anthology 'Love and Relationships' cluster.
With a series of tasks to help students to understand how to organise their analysis of the poems and select appropriate questions, the lesson includes a range of slides to model how to compare poetic and language features through close textual analysis of language, structure, mood, tone and sounds.
Ideal for higher-attaining students to develop their exam skills.
An example slide from the PowerPoint lesson:
Choose one point from each of the four sections and provide evidence from each poem to support your point.
Language:
- Both poems use diction associated with winter …
- Both poems use language with connotations of betrayal …
- Both poems use a semantic field of speech …
- Both poems use demonstrative pronouns …
Structure:
- Both poems use a regular rhyme scheme …
- Both poems use a regular metre …
- Both poems use a cyclical structure …
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