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A displaced person pictures the country and the city where he or she was born. Neither the city nor the country is ever named and this lack of specific detail seems intentional. It is as if Rumens ...

choose your quotations carefully and keep them brief (a line or two at most is usually enough, but a word or phrase may also be fine) fit it into the flow of your writing explain what the ...

You will need to research the poet’s background to discover answers to these questions. But if you do write about a poem and its context, be careful to include only details that reveal something ...

The cast of characters in Macbeth is not particularly large but each has an important part to play in the unfolding drama. Many of the characters are from the Scottish ruling class. Other ...

To see the difference between these three terms, think of a house where the whole building is the poem's form, the rooms are the poem's structure and the furniture is the poem's language It is ...

The poem contrasts the vividness of the pilot's moment of choice with the disappointment of his life afterwards. First section is full of vivid impressions of the senses. Colour is explored ...

The light that shines through the paper represents God. 'The light' is often used as a symbol of truth, or in religious texts to represent God. In the second stanza the speaker refers to the thin ...

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You can discover a lot about a poem by comparing it to one by another author that deals with a similar subject. You could compare features such as theme, form, structure, rhythm, language and ...

The image of people walking over a ‘gulping’ creature is disturbing and vivid. It is as if they are crushing the life out of it, almost without noticing. Use this process with each of the ...

In the final stages of the poem, the poet links the idea of a building being made from paper to human skin, using the words 'living tissue' and then 'your skin'. This is quite a complex idea, and ...

You will need to research the poet’s background to discover answers to these questions. But if you do write about a poem and its context, be careful to include only details that reveal something ...

The poem presents itself as a first-person account of an émigrée’s relationship with her homeland. However, given the place is not named, the poem offers a more general consideration of the ...

Power: this poem refers to the power of paper to change things and to record our memories. 'this/ is what could alter things.' Even the most delicate kinds of paper can record the most important ...

In this narrative poem, Beatrice Garland explores the testimony of the daughter of a kamikaze pilot. Unlike many of his comrades, this pilot turns back from his target and returns home. The poem ...

You can discover a lot about a poem by comparing it to one by another author that deals with a similar subject. You could compare features such as theme, form, structure, rhythm, language and ...

The poem is told anecdotally and begins with ‘On another occasion’, implying that this account is not the only unpleasant account the soldier has in his memory. He tells how he and ‘somebody ...

Interpreting and analysing a poem is not necessarily a matter of finding the right answer. This is a poem about home-sickness for a land to which the speaker can never return. The city walls ...

The soldiers are nameless and in many ways identical. The use of ‘somebody else’ suggests that these could be any men, as if the soldiers are as disposable as the looter they have killed. The ...

You can discover a lot about a poem by comparing it to one by another author that deals with a similar subject. You could compare features such as theme, form, structure, rhythm, language and ...

'Remains' could be compared to World War One poem, 'Exposure' You can discover a lot about a poem by comparing it to one by another author that deals with a similar subject. You could compare ...

TESTAMENT: Hello and welcome to the Bitesize poetry podcast ... In the poetry section of your English Literature exam, you will be asked to compare two poems. Listen to this podcast to hear ...

You can discover a lot about a poem by comparing it to one by another author that deals with a similar subject. You could compare features such as theme, form, structure, rhythm, language and ...

Just search Bitesize on BBC Sounds. Peace! In the poetry section of your English Literature exam, you will be asked to compare two poems. Listen to this podcast to hear an example of how you could ...

You will need to research the poet’s background to discover answers to these questions. But if you do write about a poem and its context, be careful to include only details that reveal something ...

War: Owen once declared of all his writing that: ‘My theme is war and the pity of war’. In this poem he looks at a particular aspect of how death claimed the lives of so many soldiers. ‘We o ...

The soldiers are in physical pain. The guns are so noisy and the wind is so cold that it has given the soldiers severe headaches. The soldiers are developing psychological problems. The noise and ...

TESTAMENT: Hello and welcome to the Bitesize poetry podcast ... In the poetry section of your English Literature exam, you will be asked to compare two poems. Listen to this podcast to hear ...

Exile: The speaker seems to be an exile from an unknown city. ‘émigrée’, ‘I left it as a child’, ‘the frontiers rise between us’, ‘there’s no way back’, ‘I have no passport ...

Parental love: the parent’s love for his child is shown in the pain he feels when he realises he has to let the child go. ‘love is proved in the letting go’ The final line of the poem is ...

Guilt: the speaker in this poem is haunted by the guilt of taking another man’s life. He is upset by the fact that the man might have been innocent. ‘probably armed, possibly not’ This ...

A couple are walking through the 'gulping' mud alongside a lake in winter. They are 'silent and apart' and the reader feels as if the previous 'two days of rain' might have coincided with an ...

The clouds had given their all - two days of rain and then a break in which we walked, the waterlogged earth gulping for breath at our feet as we skirted the lake, silent and apart, until the ...

You will need to research the poet’s background to discover answers to these questions. But if you do write about a poem and its context, be careful to include only details that reveal something ...

We stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; – They had fallen from an ash, and were gray. Your eyes on me were ...

Partnership: in this poem we are presented with a couple who seem to have had an argument. By the end of the poem they are reconciled, and it seems that their partnership is one that can ride out ...

It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day – A sunny day with leaves just turning, The touch-lines new-ruled – since I watched you play Your first game of football, then, like a satellite ...

Thank you so much for listening to the Bitesize Poetry Podcast, the rest of this series is available now on BBC Sounds. Peace. In the poetry section of your English Literature exam, you will be ...