POETRY ESSAY SCAFFOLD

Sample question:
Poetry makes us think about the world in new ways.
Discuss in reference to TWO poems studied in class
INTRO:
Address the question and state the poems you will be referring to:
In his poetry Keats makes us think about the world in different ways. He
explores the idea of the beauty we can find in seemingly negative events
such as the season of Autumn and the frozen events on an inanimate piece
of art work. These ideas are explored in the poems To Autumn and Ode on A
Grecian Urn.

Para One:
POINT: In the poem To Autumn Keats explores the idea of the beauty we can
see in the season of Autumn by depicting it as a time of fulfillment.
EXAMPLE: In the opening lines the alliteration of seasons of mist and
mellow fruitfulness with the repetition of the m sound and the word
fruitfulness combining to create a feeling of ripeness. This is reinforced in
the following lines through the words load and bless and the image of fruit
with ripeness to the core
EXPLAINATION: Through these techniques Keats is creating the idea that
Autumn is a time when the world is at its peak.
LINK: This idea is in contrast to the accepted idea of Autumn being a time of
decay, and therefore is allowing us to see the world in a new way.

POINT TWO

POINT THREE

PARA FOUR: LINK AND INTRODUCING NEW POEM

LINK AND POINT: Keats also challenges accepted views of the world in the
poem Ode On A Grecian Urn. In this poem Keats is looking at an inanimate
urn and it becomes the catalyst to bring the depicted scenes alive.
EXAMPLE: The opening lines address the urn as : foster child of silence
and slow time and follow with a series of rhetorical questions about the
scenes on the urn.
EXPLAIN: By doing this Keats is establishing that the urn is silent and
cannot speak, however this then becomes the basis for the paradox of the
poem which has the urn, though silent being able to communicate.
LINK: In doing this Keats is making the reader think about the urn, and art,
in a different. Way.

POINT TWO

POINT THREE

CONCLUSION