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The two poems I have chosen to look at are the extract of Summer: The second pastoral, or Alexis by Alexander Pope and the extract from Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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... 2. (a) Choose any two poems from the WJEC Poetry Anthology that you would recommend to a friend. Using literary and linguistic concepts and approaches, look closely at the content, style and structure of each poem in order to justify your selection. The two poems I have chosen to look at are the extract of Summer: The second pastoral, or Alexis by Alexander Pope and the extract from Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I enjoy Pope's sense of humour in this piece. It is a piece of satire, and the mockery of conventional love poetry and pastoral lyrics, to me, make a humourous and entertaining piece. Pope opens with an imperative sentence, a command for the reader and the subject of the poem, the lover, to see the scene he is about to set. He uses an exclamation mark, which is the first of five. This













