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How many paragraphs should you write in a Literature essay?

Three? Four? Five?

What if that’s completely the wrong question?

This Tuesday, the second episode of Four Ideas That Will Change How You Write Essays: The Get Poetry Guide premieres.

This week:

🔥 STOP Counting Paragraphs. Start Answering Questions.

We’ll show you why strong essays aren’t really built around a predetermined number of paragraphs. They’re built around questions, ideas and arguments.

And once you start thinking that way, essay structure begins to make much more sense.

📅 Tuesday 29 September
⏰ 19:30
📺 Get Poetry

🔔 Subscribe and join us for the premiere.

And tell us below:

When you plan an essay, what comes first: the number of paragraphs or the ideas you want to explore?

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Four Ideas That Will Change How You Write Essays: The Get Poetry Guide

What if getting better at Literature essays isn’t really about memorising more quotations, writing more paragraphs or learning more complicated terminology?

What if it’s about thinking differently?

Over the next four weeks, Get Poetry is releasing four short videos exploring simple ideas that can make a big difference to the way we approach literary analysis.

The examples come from the IGCSE Poetry Anthology, but the advice applies to any GCSE Literature student who wants to write with greater depth, clarity and confidence.

📅 Tuesday 22 September, 7:30pm
🌱 The Biggest Quote Mistake Students Make

📅 Tuesday 29 September, 7:30pm
❓ Essays Are Questions, Not Paragraphs

📅 Tuesday 6 October, 7:30pm
🔨 Does Your Paragraph Have a Job?

📅 Tuesday 13 October, 7:30pm
🌲 Good Writers Get Lost First

Four videos. Four practical ideas. And hopefully, four opportunities to rethink some of the things we take for granted about essay writing.

The first episode arrives Tuesday at 7:30pm.

🔔 Subscribe and set a reminder so you don’t miss it.
📚 Share the series with someone studying GCSE English Literature.

And we’d love to know:

What’s the ONE thing you find most difficult about writing a Literature essay?

Tell us in the comments. It might even become a future Get Poetry video.

#GetPoetry #GCSEEnglishLiterature #IGCSEEnglishLiterature #EssayWriting #PoetryAnalysis #EnglishRevision #GCSERevision #BetterEssays

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Welcome back!

New term...new videos.

Over the next few months, Get Poetry is going to focus on sharpening your analysis, explaining what YOU can do to get that Grade 9 you really want.

The first video will drop on TUESDAY at 7pm, and will be looking at just two words from John Agard's 'Half-Caste.'

See you there!

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We promised you a PEFAZIL series in time for the end-of-year exams. Well...

New Series Launch | Sunday 7:30pm

What if the problem with your poetry answers… isn’t what you know - but how you’re writing about it?

Most students don’t lose marks because they misunderstand poems.

They lose marks because their analysis:

stops too early
stays too general
or never quite connects properly

That changes this Sunday.

At 7:30pm, we're launching a brand new Get Poetry series:

PEFAZIL - What it is, how it works and why it actually gets marks

This isn’t another checklist.
It’s not a formula to memorise.
It’s a way of thinking that helps you:

✅ build clear, controlled analytical paragraphs
✅ zoom in on the right words
✅ explain meaning with precision
✅ and keep comparison flowing naturally

Across 9 short episodes, we take one real exam question:

Compare how power is presented in "If—" and "My Last Duchess"

… and build a high‑level paragraph step by step, showing you exactly how strong analysis is constructed.

If you’ve ever thought:

“I know the poems, I just don’t know how to write about them properly…”

This series is for you.

🗓 Sunday 31st May
⏰ 7:30pm
▶️ Full PEFAZIL series drops

Set the reminder. Share it with someone who needs it.

This is about turning understanding into marks.

Get ready for the 18 minutes that will transform how you write about literature.

Let's Get Poetry


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The IGCSE exam Paper 1 is now over, and if you’ve been revising alongside Get Poetry this year, you should be proud of the work you’ve put in. Exams are intense, demanding, and at times overwhelming — but that chapter is now closed.

At the same time, this feels like the right moment to look forward.

Over the coming months, the channel will be shifting focus to three major projects, all designed to bring the same calm, structured clarity to the next stage of learning:

📘 Completing the AQA Power and Conflict cluster
We’ll be finishing the remaining poems with clear analysis, connections, and comparison support — focusing on understanding before memorisation.

📗 Completing the prose content for Edexcel IGCSE Literature Paper 2
This will include big‑picture thinking, close analysis, and exam‑ready ways of approaching longer prose responses without feeling lost or overloaded.

And finally, and most excitingly of all...

🎥 Launching our PEFAZIL series

A sequence of short, focused explainers showing how strong analytical paragraphs are built, not through checklists, but through careful thinking about language, structure, form and effect.

Whether you’re GCSE or IGCSE, this is about turning insight into marks.

If you’ve found the channel helpful this year, thank you for being part of it - and please SPREAD THE WORD!

And if you’re new here, this is a great time to join - less panic, more precision and a stronger foundation for what comes next.

More clarity soon.

Thanks again!

Team Get Poetry


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📢 Bonus Video Alert | Last‑Minute Revision 📢

Struggling with the Edexcel IGCSE poetry comparison?

This Friday 8th May at 8am, we're releasing a bonus “How to…” Get Poetry video breaking down exactly how to compare poems for the Edexcel IGCSE exam.

✅ How the question is marked
✅ What examiners really want to see
✅ How to structure your comparisons clearly
✅ Common mistakes that cost marks
✅ How to keep comparison running throughout

This is not revising specific poems.

This is about exam technique, confidence and control — perfect for last‑minute revision if poetry comparison still feels shaky.

If you’ve ever thought: “I know the poems, I just don’t know how to compare them properly…”

This video is for you.

🗓 Friday 8th May
⏰ 8am
🎥 Bonus Get Poetry How To Compare Poems video

Set your reminders, and share with anyone who needs a boost going into the exam.

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A few days ago, we were asked by viewer @DictatorMbappéOffical about how we would go about answering the comparative question for EDEXCEL IGCSE. Well, we've now produced a pdf based on the last few years of examiners reports, as well as our years of teaching this specification.

It's available to download, free of charge, HERE: drive.google.com/file/d/1xQUkByAD4H8-qOUtrIM1hgoiz…

And here's the link to the STRUCTURE & FORM explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJYWc...

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🎉 WE’VE DONE IT! FIVE VIDEOS. FIVE DAYS. 🎉

📅 Final Premiere: TONIGHT, Friday 17th April
⏰ 19:30 (BST)
📺 On Get Poetry

This week, Get Poetry has released five brand‑new comparison videos, each tackling a core theme from the Edexcel IGCSE English Literature Poetry anthology — one every single day.

And tonight, we finish strong.

Our final video of the series explores Structure and Form, comparing:

📜 Sonnet 116
🔥 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
🕰️ Poem at Thirty‑Nine

In this 2‑minute explainer, we break down:

• Why structure is never accidental
• How rigid forms create certainty and defiance
• How free verse mirrors memory and reflection

If you’ve been following the series — thank you.
If you’re just catching up — now’s the perfect time.

📖 Five videos.
🧠 Five exam‑ready themes.
✅ One less thing to worry about in Paper 1.

Set your reminder and join us for the final premiere at 19:30 BST.

LET’S GET POETRY.

#GetPoetry #EdexcelIGCSE #IGCSEEnglish #EnglishLiterature #PoetryComparison #StructureAndForm #ExamRevision #Paper1 #StudySupport #RevisionSeries #GCSEEnglish

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🌿 TONIGHT’S GET POETRY PREMIERE 🌿
⏰ 19:30 (BST)

Video 4 of our Edexcel IGCSE comparison series explores a classic theme — with a twist:

Man vs Nature

We compare:

🏞️ La Belle Dame Sans Merci
🌍 Prayer Before Birth
💧 Blessing

Nature is never just background.

📌 Premieres tonight at 19:30 (BST)

LET’S GET POETRY.

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Thank you!

We’ve reached 100 subscribers, and we just wanted to say how grateful we are. It may be a small milestone, but it means a lot to us that people are choosing to watch, subscribe, and engage with what we’re doing.

Thanks for your support...and there's plenty more poetry to come!

Team Get Poetry

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