Practise Paper 1 Skills: poetry
Poetry is typically seen by students as something 'difficult', abstruse or even indecipherable. It is not unusual, for this reason, to hear students say that they approach Paper 1 determined to choose the prose text - without even bothering to read the poem! Even more sadly, perhaps, it is not entirety uncommon to hear this recommendation from teachers themselves. Experience suggests that some of the more common...