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Approaching an unseen poem is not as scary as it seems; all you need is a system for ensuring that you’ve really used your time to squeeze as much out of the poem as you can. It’s always important to star...

I think the clearest access point when starting to unpick a new text is through identifying key themes, motifs and patterns, which can be pretty easy once you know what you're looking for. There are a cou...

That is such a good spot. Rhyme is a really important part of poetry - it can completely change the tone of the poem. You can have rhyme at the end of a line, for example : 'cat' and 'bat'. This can give ...

You should read the poem through first without annotating or writing anything down in order to try and absorb what the poem means as much as possible. On the second read through, it is really useful to an...

Contextual knowledge includes all kinds of things that give a background of the text, for example why it was written, what belief system it is situated in, what historical events influenced the writer. Th...