A2 LIT - COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS - INTRODUCTIONS

Here are a few points to include in your introduction

• Define the key comparative term in the introduction.

• Show - through summary and headline - the relevance of this topic to each of the texts.

• Make clear and simple comparative statements linking the texts to the key topic of the essay title.

• Identify the audience, purposes and genre of the two texts.

• Make a contextual observation by commenting on the relevance of the key topic to the period of history.

• Make a theoretical observation about the key topic and the two texts.

• Identify the main literary - poetic and dramatic - features of the two texts. Especially refer to the form of Blake's poetry in The Songs.