Hi all,
For Mod A, say we get a question that says something about how your two prescribed texts converse.
I was taught to write paired paragraphs, and we were explicitly told not to write integrated, so mine would look like this:
Para 1: Keats poem
Para 2: Bright star film
Para 3: Keats poem
Para 4: Bright star film
But how would I answer a question along those lines, seeing as the conversation happens in the film and not the poetry (as in what would I write about in my first and third paragraphs)?? Thanks!
(I also dont want to write integrated paras or attempt to this close to the hsc)
Hey, Emily!
Not a problem at all if you want to stick to individual texts for your paragraphs. It's wiser to do that if you're more confident with it than to attempt an integrated structure now. If you are going with paired paragraphs like you have there, my suggestion would be to argue about the textual conversations occurring
two-way. This means that as much as Keats initiates conversation about one value and Campion continues to communicate it to us in her film,
it also means that Campion's film invites us to revisit Keats in order to complete our understanding of their intertextual connections. To mirror this kind of argument, I would rearrange the structure as so;
Value/Theme 1Para 1: Keats Poem 1
Para 2: Bright Star
Value/Theme 2Para 3: Bright Star
Para 4: Keats Poem 2
At the end of your second and fourth paragraphs, you would use synthesis to link both texts together. Something like "While Keats' representations of mortality were indeed informed by Romantic aesthetics, Campion reimagines them in the film medium to project the relevance of the poet's ideas in a contemporary setting" would work for Para 2. On the other hand, something like "Thus,
Bright Star not only continues Keats' conversation on beauty but also starts a new one, one of which urges audiences to revisit Keats' poetry wearing a new lens and enhances an appreciation for the natural world." This way, you can acknowledge that the texts are conversing with each other, as opposed to Keats just being the springboard or Campion's film just being a response to it as a result. Hope that makes sense and let me know if you have any other questions!
Angelina