How to structure a comparative paragraph on two poems #2

Here’s an example of a comparative paragraph on ‘Follower’ and ‘Before You Were Mine’.

 

Mr Legowski’s Yr 9 Poetry Homework – due Tuesday 15 December

Your homework is twofold:

1. Watch the videos below – and look at poetry analysis webpages, e.g. in Shmoop and Sparknotes – and then annotate your copies of Follower and Mother, Any Distance. Extension: You might also add to the annotations you have made on your copy of Before You Were Mine.
2. Explore the major theme(s) in the above poems. Again, you will need to refer to revision websites for help with this.

Follower by Seamus Heaney

Mother, Any Distance by Simon Armitage