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Unit 4: Independent explorations
Quick questions on Close reading of poetry in QCE Literature Unit 4
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What is form carries meaning?Show answer
The unifying principle is that in poetry, form is not separable from meaning. A poem about loss that fractures its own lines is performing the fracture; a poem about order that holds a strict form is enacting the order. The close reading that wins marks shows the form working, naming a line break, a rhythmic stall or a sound pattern and following it to what it does. Paraphrase reports the content and loses the poem.
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