My teacher is asking us to do essay on weekends to prepare for our exam in May The question is:
"Compare how the parent and child relationships are presented in Catrin, Digging, The Song of the old Mother and On my first Sonne"
I know how to talk about the lauguage and stanza’s and rhyme scheme etc. But how would i structure a piece like this were it says compare the 4 poems. Should i talk about each one individually and then have one paragraph to compare them or do i compare them throught the text in each paragraph and if so how?
Also when you have a question like this are you supposed to include references to Writing style, structure, effectiveness and content. Because since the question is asking how parent and child relationships are presented i would just make references to stanzas and language not style.
Is that correct how can i structure it to get the best mark possible?
So far I’ve only studied the last two but there are probably two quite obvious ways in which you could structure this essay; either choosing a topic like theme, language etc and doing a paragraph on each one and linking them with comparisons or you could do each poem separately and each paragraph can be about the different topics (again, eg theme, language etc).
Also, i don’t know if this will help, but basically I think the way that the poem is set out on the page always makes a reference to the tone/language etc of it. I usually find a way to put that into essays.
Personally, I wouldn’t include references to writing style since it’s not a key element of what is asked. But that’s really up to you.
Hope this has somewhat helped hah. Good luck!
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:27 am
So far I’ve only studied the last two but there are probably two quite obvious ways in which you could structure this essay; either choosing a topic like theme, language etc and doing a paragraph on each one and linking them with comparisons or you could do each poem separately and each paragraph can be about the different topics (again, eg theme, language etc).
Also, i don’t know if this will help, but basically I think the way that the poem is set out on the page always makes a reference to the tone/language etc of it. I usually find a way to put that into essays.
Personally, I wouldn’t include references to writing style since it’s not a key element of what is asked. But that’s really up to you.
Hope this has somewhat helped hah. Good luck!
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