Edexcel A level unseen poetry response

An ‘A’ grade response comparing ‘Eat Me’ from the Poems of the Decade Anthology with the unseen poem ‘Harvest’ by Owen Sheers.

This resource can be used to model a higher level approach to unseen poetry. Pupils can highlight where the answer meets the assessment criteria as a way of breaking down the mark scheme in a practical fashion. The first few paragraphs have italicised and bold phrases to demonstrate this, but these can be removed before pupils read it.