Class notes - 9/1/23
Poetry Comparison
Extract from the Prelude vs Exposure
Explore how the poet of ‘Extract from the Prelude’ and one other poem of your choice present
NATURE. (20 marks)
- Comparing it to ‘Exposure’
- How do they both present nature - similarities & differences
- How do they use certain devices (both language and structure) to present nature
- Must explore content
- Romanticism
- Relationship between humanity & nature
- Lake district
- Escape from the city
- Critical industrialisation of cities + anti-war poet
- WW1 - 20 million
- Poetry challenged the propaganda that was churned out by the government
- Emotional response of readers
1x Intro
3x Comparative paragraphs
-> 23-30 Words
Example paragraphs - Broken down
Main Comparative Point - What Prelude (½ of a paragraph) Exposure (½ of a paragraph)
similarity or difference do we have
in terms of how the two present
NATURE.
Similarity : Both Wordsworth and P: The speaker in Wordsworth’s P: Owen explores the idea that the
Owen explore the superiority that poem emphesises the sheer might real threat that faced soldiers in
nature has over humanity. of nature, bringing to life the WW1 was the brutal weather
insignificance of humanity in conditions rather than the threat
comparison of other soldiers.
E: “growing still in stature the grin E: “Our brains ache in the
shape towered up between me and merciless iced east-winds that knife
the stars” us”
T: Personification T: Personification
A: Authoritative + intimidating + A: Could be read to suggest that
effortlessly believing in humanity - nature is punishing the soldiers as
as a romantic poet, he emphesises a concequence for their
Notes by A.A
Poetry Comparison
Extract from the Prelude vs Exposure
Explore how the poet of ‘Extract from the Prelude’ and one other poem of your choice present
NATURE. (20 marks)
- Comparing it to ‘Exposure’
- How do they both present nature - similarities & differences
- How do they use certain devices (both language and structure) to present nature
- Must explore content
- Romanticism
- Relationship between humanity & nature
- Lake district
- Escape from the city
- Critical industrialisation of cities + anti-war poet
- WW1 - 20 million
- Poetry challenged the propaganda that was churned out by the government
- Emotional response of readers
1x Intro
3x Comparative paragraphs
-> 23-30 Words
Example paragraphs - Broken down
Main Comparative Point - What Prelude (½ of a paragraph) Exposure (½ of a paragraph)
similarity or difference do we have
in terms of how the two present
NATURE.
Similarity : Both Wordsworth and P: The speaker in Wordsworth’s P: Owen explores the idea that the
Owen explore the superiority that poem emphesises the sheer might real threat that faced soldiers in
nature has over humanity. of nature, bringing to life the WW1 was the brutal weather
insignificance of humanity in conditions rather than the threat
comparison of other soldiers.
E: “growing still in stature the grin E: “Our brains ache in the
shape towered up between me and merciless iced east-winds that knife
the stars” us”
T: Personification T: Personification
A: Authoritative + intimidating + A: Could be read to suggest that
effortlessly believing in humanity - nature is punishing the soldiers as
as a romantic poet, he emphesises a concequence for their
Notes by A.A
