If you think you don’t need to revise for the unseen poetry exam, think again. While it’s true that such exams are perhaps the purest test of literary skills, such skills need to be built overtly, not just transferred from other parts of the course. Your analytical skills are also built on a bedrock of understanding that needs to be developed directly.
This article explores some of the ways in which you can maximise performance when writing about unseen love poetry. We focus on two main ways: reading a range of love poems, and practising techniques for reading and analysing poetry.
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