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2c. Content of The language of poetry and plays (Component 02)The language of poetry and plays (Component 02) issplit into two parts.Section A focuses on one poetry collection from achoice of six, each with 15 poems identified for study(see below and Appendix 5e).Section B focuses on one drama text from a choiceof six (see below and Appendix 5e). This componentdraws on the discipline of stylistics to provide a helpfulstructure for the integrated study of linguistic andliterary approaches to poetry and drama.The set texts will be reviewed after three years andmay be subject to change. Each set text will remainon the list for the lifetime of the qualification, unlessthe review process identifies a necessary change. If atext is to be removed from the list and replaced withanother text, centres will be notified a year in advance.2The language of poetry and playsTopic Content Learners should be able to:Section A – Poetry: stylisticanalysisStudy of one substantial poetrytext from the following choiceof six (15 poems prescribed foreach text):••William Blake: Songs ofInnocence and Experience••Emily Dickinson: TheComplete Poems••Seamus Heaney: OpenedGround: Poems 1966–1996••Eavan Boland: NewCollected Poems••Carol Ann Duffy: Rapture••Jacob Sam-La Rose:Breaking Silence••Show knowledge andunderstanding of asubstantial poetrycollection.••Apply relevant methodsfor text analysis, drawingon linguistic and literaryfields.••Analyse poetic andstylistic techniques.••Explore connectionsacross poems.••Explore how linguistic andliterary approaches caninform interpretations oftexts.••Explore literary, culturaland stylistic contexts.••analyse the use and impact ofpoetic techniques such as imagery,symbolism, rhythm, rhyme, tone,form and structure••analyse the use and impact oflinguistic choices (e.g. phonological,lexical, semantic, grammatical)••analyse aspects of the textforegrounded through the use ofrepetition, pattern-making, patternbreakingand deviation••identify and describe how meaningsand effects are created and conveyedthrough language••consider the ways in which the poemsrelate to each other and significantliterary or other relevant contexts••use English and terminologyappropriately and coherently••make accurate references to texts.© OCR 2014A Level in English Language and Literature (EMC) 7