Poetry Comparison Past Questions:
January 2019
Compare the ways the writers present experiences of different
types of difficult situations in Half-past Two and War
Photographer.
Compare how the writers present death in Do not go gentle into
that good night and
one other poem from the anthology. (suggested poem for
comparison: Remember)
Compare the ways the writers present a story in La Belle Dame
sans Merci and My Last Duchess.
Compare how the writers present power in The Tyger and one
other poem from the
anthology.
June 2018
Compare the ways the writers convey feelings about parents
in Piano and Poem at Thirty-Nine.
Compare how the writers present ideas about the future
in If– and one other poem
, from the anthology. (here I would suggest comparing with
Prayer Before Birth)
Compare the ways the writers convey feelings about identity
in Search For My Tongue and Half-caste.
Compare how the writers present personal experiences in Hide
and Seek and
one other poem from the anthology.
January 2018
Compare how the writers present power in The Tyger and My
Last Duchess?
Compare how the poets convey childhood in Hide and Seek and
one other poem from the Anthology. (Piano, Half Past Two)
June 2017
Compare how poets present the ways people suffer in La Belle
Dame sans Merci and War Photographer?
(the theme of suffering also permeates A Mother in a Refugee
Camp; Do Not Go Gentle)
January 2017
Compare how the poets convey their wishes for the future
in Prayer Before Birth and one other poem from the
Anthology. (suggested poem for comparison: If)