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Individual Oral Presentation - Poetry
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Individual Oral Presentation - Poetry
IOC (poetry commentary) Structure at a glance
INTRO general The World’s Wife, Duffy
(30 secs)
INTRO specific
(1½ mins)
Background to this particular poem: mythological/historical
What’s going on in the poem?
Who? Where? What? When?
What sort of poem? (Form, structure)
What’s the tone? (Ironical? Satirical?)
Formulate Main Idea (main theme/what’s the poem really about?)
“In my commentary, I will show the way in which the poet uses ….”
Signpost
MAIN BODY Imagery (figurative language/metaphor, multisensory?)
(pick 3 or 4) Syntax (unusual grammar, sentence length, punctuation)
(4½ mins) Diction (choice of words - striking? - word play, puns)
Music of Sound (consonance, assonance, rhyme)
Music of Beat (rhythm & metre, end-stopped, enjambment)
Structure (juxtap. ideas, absurdity, chronology, tension)
Symbolism, Metonymy, Synechdoche
Signpost “In conclusion …”
CONCLUSION Link the points you’ve made in Main Body to your Main Idea.
(1 min in all) Can you make wider interpretive links? Links to other poems?