How did everyone deal with the 'identity' aspect of the question?
I found it a bit weird, considering I was expecting a question about context and reshaped values etc.
I use the metaphoric "ward door of heavy glass" between the persona and her mother and then talk about how it is symbolic of the barrier between life and death. then I say how the transparency of glass emulates an eternal memory of her mother, therefore transcendence through memory as the...
Its really good to make links with father and child
you can talk about the acceptance of the inevitability of death
the ability of memory to transcend the physical realm of existence etc. and there are good metaphors in it
what ones have you already done?
I would say learn father and child and mother who gave me life, because everyone seems to believe that either of those will be the specified poem in the exam
Yeah, I really hope it isn't sharpness of death, my teacher said its pretty unlikely because it is one of...
Not enough time to have a detailed understanding for every poem!
I know three in detail (mother, father and child and a valediction)
I am going to know some techniques and quotes for sharpness and triste, and am sort of hoping that violets and at mornington is not specified because it was in...
they specified father and child in cssa trials
do you think they would specify it anyway?
I understand they are separate organisations but im just nervous!
They specified the violets 2012, and at mornington in 2011
do you think they would specify these poems again tomorrow?
if not what poem do you think could be specified?