Writer’s Methods & Techniques
Examiners want students to analyse a wide range of poetic methods (AO2), not just the language. Remember, analysing methods means evaluating all of a poet’s choices, which includes a lot more than just the words they have chosen. It includes perspective, structure, form, and the meanings behind certain characters and symbols. On this page you will find guides on:
Exam Tip
Examiners like to see that students have an awareness of the form of a text, whether it’s a novel, a play, a poem, etc. Each anthology contains 15 poems, and so it’s important that you signal to the examiner that you know this. This is as simple as using the term “reader” instead of the audience, and other poem-specific terminology such as “lines”, “stanza”, and even “poet” instead of the writer.