Skills for GCSE Unseen Poetry

This worksheet gives students five key methods of analysis to apply to unseen poems. The examples are all from ‘Ozymandias’ (Shelley) and ‘Remains’ (Armitage) from the AQA Power and Conflict cluster: the idea being that you could make a start on reading the poems by doing this exercise with Year 10 - or revise the poems by practising unseen poetry skills on them with Year 11. Alternatively, if you are teaching a different cluster or a different syllabus use them just as unseen poems (and ignore the table on the Power and Conflict poems on the last page).
The resource is designed to give students a generic sense of how to approach a poem and to discourage them from paraphrasing. It is suitable for grade 5-9. I have included full written explanations of all the skills so that students can revise effectively from the worksheet (like a revision guide).
For copyright reasons I have not included the poems themselves in the resource (they are easily available online).