Writing an essay for 2 poems please read!

Try a thematic response- find points about how the poet feels about everyday experiences/ themes ( you may feel that the poet is expressing anger, for example when you read the poem)
I would say to not get too frustrated about finding points to make, relax and you'll take the themes in better! Good luck!

As i laid in bed last night I thought about having a structure like this :

Main body :

1. Talk about the use of metaphors or language
2. Talk about the structure
3. Talk about the tone.

Your Idea sounds better, Thing is, I don't really know how to write a thematic response? It is for Valentine and Mrs.tilchers class (the poems) and they do have some common ground which is good.

How would you start a paragraph just for an example?

That's a weak structure IMO.
Nearly all top band/grade responses will constantly compare/contrast in every single paragraph, think of it like a tennis rally, as opposed to explaining one poem then another. I would do that if I were you.

I don't know the poems, but I'll make a paragraph to illustrate;

The poet implies that the main character experiences anxiety when faced with social interaction. This can be demonstrated in "quote" which reveals how the character is taken aback with sudden nervousness and angst when asked about his father. Anxiety is a specific theme in the poem because it suggests how people are affected by being situations that they do not feel comfortable in.

Something like that! Identify key themes like love/ romance, age, life etc and emotions and follow the structure that you made. Good luck!

Thank you, that is a nice example.

How about something like this for an overview?

Valentine is a poem about the exploration of love. The universal and prosaic perception of love is discarded by Duffy's cynical portrayal. Her use of an onion as an extended metaphor illustrates and amplifies the whole poem due to an onion being an everyday object; where, like love, can be related to in many ways. The poem is written in free verse, but with a very subtle and specific structure, like the layers of an onion, they get smaller nearer the end. The poem is also written with direct speech: "Not a red rose../I give you.." which gives the reader a sense of involvement at a intimate time.

Ooh yes that's very good, maybe make inferences on the layers of an onion being representative of the different facets of the person or the unpredictability (onions making one's eyes water when cut). The red rose could also represent blood, life force etc sorry if that's too much waffle, I used to write this way at gcse and all went well!

Hmm... Yes I like that, Roses and blood etc.. It is good.

I am just trying to use/adapt P.E.E into each paragraph and I just cannot think of how to start my second paragraph?

"It is a moon wrapped in brown paper"
It promises light
Like the careful undressing of love.

That is stanza 2, which will be analyzed in my second paragraph.

I have thought about writing how the moon shares the characteristics of an onion, (love, madness) it is covered in brown paper, like onion skin and "it promises light" underneath the skin of an onion is light, moon behind the clouds , potential light and this ties in with love. Then the simile 'like the/undressing of love" new relationships, careful, revealing like when your first intimate with another...

They are things I wanted to include, but I have gone brain dead and cannot write... My CA is on Tuesday and i am just drafting at the moment, so this is leading into disaster.