How the hell do you revise poetry??

I know this is so bad but my y11 mocks are next week, and my English is on Monday. I honestly love poetry and Im not bad at it, particularly in open book assessments, but of course the actual thing and our mocks are closed book. I know I should try to remember themes, structure, quotations, comparisons etc but I’ve got no clue how!! I’m aiming for at least an 8, and I know flash cards are generally good for memorising stuff but I don’t know how to structure them. If anyone could give advice on how they revise, I’d really appreciate it especially since I’ve got a week until the exam.

Hi!

I also have mocks in a few weeks time, I have made A4 summary sheets of each poem with structure, context, summary/themes and 4 key quotations. I literally just try and memorise them pretty much word for word. I don’t think there’s a short cut to it unfortunately, you just need to memorise it! (Which is a shame because it does seem to take the joy out of poetry).
Closer to the time I do practice questions and try to think through what poems I would compare to others, but I only tend to do this after I know I know the poems well.

I had a mock last year for poetry and this method seemed to work for me!

Good luck in your mocks

Thanks so much!! How do you go about memorising them? Do you blurt or something or just read through them until it sticks?
Good luck for yours too!

I tend to blurt. I draw out a mindmap with branches of structure, themes, context and language and I basically do that again and again until it sticks haha

Thank you 😊

Hi!

I also have mocks in a few weeks time, I have made A4 summary sheets of each poem with structure, context, summary/themes and 4 key quotations. I literally just try and memorise them pretty much word for word. I don’t think there’s a short cut to it unfortunately, you just need to memorise it! (Which is a shame because it does seem to take the joy out of poetry).
Closer to the time I do practice questions and try to think through what poems I would compare to others, but I only tend to do this after I know I know the poems well.

I had a mock last year for poetry and this method seemed to work for me!

Good luck in your mocks

I know this is so bad but my y11 mocks are next week, and my English is on Monday. I honestly love poetry and Im not bad at it, particularly in open book assessments, but of course the actual thing and our mocks are closed book. I know I should try to remember themes, structure, quotations, comparisons etc but I’ve got no clue how!! I’m aiming for at least an 8, and I know flash cards are generally good for memorising stuff but I don’t know how to structure them. If anyone could give advice on how they revise, I’d really appreciate it especially since I’ve got a week until the exam.

Do you mind sending the summary sheets you made😭😭😭

Really what matters is the act of making them yourself. Someone else's revision notes will always be less useful than what you could make yourself.
Try making essay plans, it'll give you an idea of what poems are good to use, which quotes are more important.

Do you mind sending the summary sheets you made😭😭😭

I find making the summary sheets with quotes you know you are going to remember is best, but my template looks like this:

Summary l Context
l
——————————
Analysis of title
——————————
4 key quotations
——————————
Themes l Comparisons

I also write it in sort of shorthand just to save space as it does get a little cramped on A4. 😂
I get all my annotations from genius.com, for example, here is the page for Storm on The Island - https://genius.com/Seamus-heaney-storm-on-the-island-annotated

Also don’t forget to make sure you know the poem as a whole as it is much easier to remember quotes and annotations if you know the gist of the rest of the poem 😊.

Hey there! i am a gcse student and i have annotated all my peoms (War and Conflict) but the rpoblem is i am unsre of how many quote to memories from each poem, bc i was thinking 3 quotes shold be enough however other people are saying 5?!!?! I AM ALREADY STRESSING ABOUT ALL THE OTHER STUFF I HAVE TO MEMORIES, anways any advice will be greatly appreciated, THANKK YOUUU !!! <3