A Minor Role by U.A.

Fanthorpe
Make sure that by the end of the seminar discussion that you have notes on the following:

1.What the poem is

about/what happens in
the poem

2.Themes eg life

3.Themes eg death

4.Themes eg illness

5.Maintaining an illusion

6.Facing up to reality

7.Sense of the spoken

voice/conversational
tone

8.Form and structure:

 Dramatic
monologue
  lists
 Punctuation
 stanza

9.Title, beginnings,
endings

10.Overall conceit
(metaphor)

11.other metaphors

12.interesting language
eg lexical fields

13.Other notable
observations arising
from seminar discussion
The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled by Leontia Flynn
Make sure that by the end of the seminar discussion that you have notes on the following:

1.What the poem is

about/what happens in
the poem

2.Themes eg life

3.Themes eg journeys

4.Themes eg
change/time

5.Themes: travel

6.Title, beginnings and

endings

7. Sense of the spoken

voice/conversational
tone
8.Form and structure:

 Stanza
organisation
 Enjambment and
caesura
 Line
length/rhyme
 volta

9. Imagery – metaphor

10. interesting/inventive
use of language

11. pace

12.Other notable
observations arising from
seminar discussion