How to compare poems English literature?

talk about the folling

Subject

Theme

Imagery

Language

T ( i cant remeber this one sorry!)

Stucture

and just compare STILTS with each poem

mines tomorrow too.

im sure you must have done annotations in your anthology. what im doing is simply going over my annotations of all the poems (since you don't know which one might come up) and i'm focusing on a couple of poems i know really well.

question might be like: how are women presented in the poems?

u have to choose 4. one from duffy, one armitage and 2 pre-1914 (not 40)

write like about how the woman's mad in havisham, she's presented as obsessive den write how that similar to woman in the laboratory but how they're both diff to woman in mother, any distance who is shown as caring and gentle. then compare that mother poem to sonnet 130 where shakespeare describes real woman. say how the last two are very diff from havisham and laboratory where women are real psycho..

DONT write bout ONE poem in one paragraph, den move on to next, den next. keep cross cutting between them and always make lil comparisons in between.

Compare POEM 1 to POEM 2. Compare POEM 3 with POEM 2. and Compare POEM 4 with POEM 3.

and if YOU CANN. then compare them ALL with each other but that doesn't have to be long, even a few sentences with some valid points about similarities and contrasts.

good luck!

well, i haven't taken my GCSE's yet however i think that you look for a large range of language techniques employed by the poet and contrast that to the other poet e.g. similes, metaphors etc.

also look at the layout of the poem (paying attention to where commas and full-stops are inserted) and try to relate that to the poem. e.g a poem about water would have hardly any full stops or commas to symbolise water flowing.

apart from that i can't really think of anything else, hope that helped x