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Individual Oral Commentary (HL) Death of a Naturalist

Poems are often a good choice for Part 4 texts and for the IOC. Whilst poems exist in dialogic interplay with other texts, they are in a certain sense self-contained. It is likely that a poem studied in class has been closely scrutinized. And, although it may be somewhat contentious to suggest this, the intimate attention poems demand may benefit students who are asked to discuss a poem in their IOC. Here, in this...

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