2. Annotating Poetry Requires you to think critically about a
text It involves: Writing on the page Questioning Clarifying main
points It is writing notes on your interpretation of what the
author has written. If your notes are within the context of the
poem, you can NEVER be wrong. Use: post-it notes, highlighters and
a pencil
3. What to look out for: Imagery Rhyme schemes Sound devices
alliteration, repetition, rhythm, off- rhyme, assonance,
onomatopoeia, consonance Figurative language Symbols
4. Annotating Poetry: What to do As you read, highlight key
information As your read, make notes in the margin
5. Analysing a poem Analysis is the breaking up of a topic to
make it easier to understand It consists of facts and commentaries
It is NOT a summary of the text or your annotations, it is NOT a
listing of facts and it is NOT random, unsubstantiated conjecture
(proposition/statement) Annotations are important when to comes to
writing analysis. Your annotations are the evidence that you use to
support your statements
6. Poetry Annotation Activity
7. World War 1
8. Quick Background of WW1 Global war centered in Europe began
on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918 involved all the
world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing
alliances more than 70 million military personnel mobilised more
than 9 million combatants were killed It was the fifth-deadliest
conflict in world history
9. Literature during the War includes poems, novels, drama,
diaries, letters, and memoirs over two thousand published poets
wrote about and during the war A common subject for fiction in the
1920s and 1930s was the effect of the war, including shell shock
and the huge social changes caused by the war
10. WW1 Video
11. Wilfred Owen Poet & Soldier One of the leading poets of
the First World War Famous for his shocking, realistic war poetry
on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare Most of his works were
published posthumously (after his death) On 21 October 1915, he
enlisted in the Artists' Rifles Officers' Training Corps Shot and
killed only one week before the end of the war on the 4th of
November 1918 He uses mostly pararhyme, with a heavy reliance on
assonance Pararhyme: a half-rhyme in which there is vowel variation
within the same consonant pattern.