Unseen Poetry Practice

With unseen poetry, the most important thing is to practice, practice, practice! 

You need to practice:

(a) finding techniques 
(b) working around/avoiding words/lines you're not sure of
(c) working out the poet's ideas (remember: NOTHING IS RANDOM!) and messages.

Unseen Poetry Revision Opportunities. 

1. Remember, you have 45 unseen poems in your anthology that you can use. The poems from Character and Voice, Place and Relationships. 
2. I will also post the poems I pick for us here.  Any that you particularly like, write up your mini-essay and I'll mark them.  

• Hour - Carol Ann Duffy
• Alone - Maya Angelou
• In Flanders Fields - John McCrae
• Love after Love - Derek Walcott
• Visiting Hour - Norman MacCaig
• Great examples of unseen plans and essays (based on Visiting Hour)