the voice behind a poem or any written work

the vantage point from which events of a story are filtered and then relayed to an audience

the power we have to pilot our lives in the direction we want to go

expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience

an informal way of speaking that suggests you're talking to someone you're close to

Conceptualising and analysing speaker and voice in unseen poetry

English

In 'AQA Power and Conflict Poetry continued', pupils used a range of reading skills, to aid the supported decoding of challenging poems. In 'Unseen Poetry', pupils use these reading skills to decode texts with independence. 

In this unit, pupils prepare for the unseen poetry in their Literature GCSE by reading poems, studying different poetry methods, and developing personal responses. They start by looking at ideas in single poems, before developing their comparative skills and writing comparisons of two unseen poems.

Unseen poetry

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

In 'Not Yet My Mother', Sheers uses the __________ narrative voice.

'An informal way of speaking that suggests you're talking to someone you're close to' is known as ...

Sheers' use of a conversational tone in 'Not Yet My Mother' arguably shows ...

'The power we have to pilot our lives in the direction we want to go' is the definition of ...

reflecting the mother's loss of identity.

reflecting the closeness of the mother and child.

Potentially, we could interpret Sheers' decision not to give the mother a voice in 'Not Yet My Mother' as ...

it highlights the importance of the child.

it subverts our understanding of the child's importance.

it conforms to our reading of the mother as less important.

Structurally, Sheers' choice to end 'Not Yet My Mother' on the word "child" could enhance our analysis of voice because ...

Match the narrative voice with the pronoun.

The expression of the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience is called the __________ of a text.

In literature, the voice behind a poem or any written work is known as the ...

The vantage point from which events of a story are filtered and then relayed to an audience is known as the ...

Choosing a first-person narrative voice can suggest __________ perspective.

the reader to feel as if it's happening to them.

the reader to see the world through someone else's eyes.

the reader to see the world from multiple perspectives.

Choosing a second-person narrative voice could suggest the writer wants ...

Content guidance

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Adult supervision recommended

Starter Quiz