Examiners want students to analyse a wide range of poetic methods (AO2), not just the language. Remember, analysing methods means evaluating all of a poet’s choices, which includes a lot more than just the words they have chosen. It includes perspective, structure, form, and the meanings behind certain characters and symbols. On this page you will find guides on:
Exam Tip
Examiners like to see that students have an awareness of the form of a text, whether it’s a novel, a play, a poem, etc. This is as simple as using the term “reader” instead of the audience, and other poem-specific terminology such as “lines”, “stanza”, and even “poet” instead of writer.