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Unseen Poetry Skills and Analysis

The document provides instructions and context for analyzing an unseen poem. It begins by listing the key skills needed: [1] reading and interpreting the poem, [2] knowing and applying literary terms, and [3] having your own ideas about the poem. It notes that there are no correct answers, but a valid interpretation backed by evidence and argument will demonstrate understanding. It then presents the poem "Hard Frost" by Andrew J. Young and poses a series of questions to analyze elements like stanzas, rhyme scheme, similes, and themes.

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Unseen Poetry Skills and Analysis

The document provides instructions and context for analyzing an unseen poem. It begins by listing the key skills needed: [1] reading and interpreting the poem, [2] knowing and applying literary terms, and [3] having your own ideas about the poem. It notes that there are no correct answers, but a valid interpretation backed by evidence and argument will demonstrate understanding. It then presents the poem "Hard Frost" by Andrew J. Young and poses a series of questions to analyze elements like stanzas, rhyme scheme, similes, and themes.

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  • Introduction to Unseen Poetry
  • Poem Questions

WHAT IS UNSEEN POETRY?

The skills you need to be able to tackle an unseen poem are:


 Reading and interpreting the poem.
 Knowing and applying literary terms.
 Having your own ideas about the poem.

It is important to understand that there are no ‘correct’ answers – if you can offer a
valid interpretation of the poem, back it up with evidence and a reasonable argument,
then you will succeed in understanding an unseen poem.

Task: You are now going to try and answer a question on an unseen poem. Read the poem
and then answer the questions that follow.

Hard Frost

Frost called to the water Halt


And crusted the moist snow with sparkling salt;
Brooks, their one bridges, stop,
And icicles in long stalactites drop.
And tench in water-holes
Lurk under gluey glass like fish in bowls.

In the hard-rutted lane


At every footstep breaks a brittle pane,
And tinkling trees ice-bound,
Changed into weeping willows, sweep the ground;
Dead boughs take root in ponds
And ferns on windows shoot their ghostly fronds.

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But vainly the fierce frost
Interns poor fish, ranks trees in an armed host,
Hangs daggers from house-eaves
And on the windows ferny ambush weaves;
In the long war grown warmer
The sun will strike him dead and strip his armour.

Andrew J Young

1. Who wrote this poem? ____________________

2. How many stanzas are there? __________

3. How many lines are in each stanza? __________

4. What are stanzas like these called? ____________________

5. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? ____________________

6. Quote a simile from stanza 1.

_______________________________________________________________

7. Quote an example of personification from stanza 3.

_______________________________________________________________

8. What is the poem about? (Subject of the poem)

_____________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

9. Mention one theme we can find in the poem.

_______________________________________________________________

WHAT IS UNSEEN POETRY? The skills you need to be able to tackle an unseen poem are:  Reading and interpreting the poem.  Kn
But vainly the fierce frost Interns poor fish, ranks trees in an armed host, Hangs daggers from house-eaves And on the window

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