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​poetry essay questions 
NATURE.
  1. "Landscape Painter, Jamaica" and "Sonnet Composed Upon A Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1820" examine man's experience of nature. Write an essay in which you highlight man’s experience with nature in these TWO poems. For EACH poem, describe EACH speaker’s experience of nature. You must also discuss ONE speaker’s attitude to the experience. Finally, for EACH poem, you must examine ONE device that EACH poet uses in the presentation of nature.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           [35 marks]
  2. "Landscape Painter, Jamaica" and "An African Thunderstorm" examine man's opposing experience of nature. Write an essay in which you highlight this contrast in man’s experience with nature in these TWO poems. For EACH poem, describe EACH speaker’s experience of nature. You must also discuss ONE speaker’s attitude to the experience. Finally, for EACH poem, you must examine ONE device that EACH poet uses in the presentation of these dual representations of nature.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   [35 marks]
  3. “Man lives in nature, so he must have experiences with it.” From the prescribed list, choose TWO poems you have studied that focus on man’s experience with nature. Write an essay in which you, for EACH poem, describe the situation in which the speaker or persona experiences nature. You must also discuss the reaction of EACH persona, to the experience with nature. Finally, for EACH poem, you must examine ONE device EACH poet uses to explore the theme of nature.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [35 marks]
  4. “Violence towards nature  is a complexity of learnt and natural responses.” From the prescribed list, choose TWO poems you have studied that focus on man’s experience with nature. Write an essay in which you, for EACH poem, describe each persona’s experience with nature. You must also discuss the situation that implies a learnt response versus a natural response to nature. Finally, for EACH poem, you must examine ONE device EACH poet uses to explore the theme of nature.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [35 marks]
  5. “ "A Lesson For this Sunday" and "Birdshooting Season" both exemplify a violence towards nature that is a complexity of learnt and natural responses an essay in which you, for EACH poem, describe each personas’ experience with nature. You must also discuss the situation that implies a learnt response versus a natural response to nature. Finally, for EACH poem, you must examine ONE device EACH poet uses to explore the theme of nature.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [35 marks]
  6. " "South"  and "A Sonnet Composed on  A Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" examines man's nostalgia towards nature. Write an essay in which you describe  EACH speaker’s experience of nature,  in these TWO poems. For EACH poem,  you must also discuss the personas’ nostalgic feelings towards nature around them. Finally, for EACH poem, you must examine ONE device that EACH poet uses in the presentation of these dual representations of nature.                                                                                                                                                                     [35 marks]

DISCRIMINATION.
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