Stage One English

Task 4 – Poetry Text Transformation: Planning Scaffold

Assessment Details:

For this assessment task, you will be transforming a poem or

passage from a novel you have studied this year into a new text.
You will be assessed on and expected to show clear intertextual
references to the original text in your work.

This scaffold is designed to enable you to identify and discuss

crucial elements from your selected original text.

You must be specific and detailed within your answers to each

question, aim to write a solid paragraph for each.
You should include either quotes or paraphrases from the novel
text, or identification and discussion of poetic techniques from the
poetry text.
Intertextuality and Transformation: Focus
Questions
What is the purpose of this original
text? (Be specific in your discussion
and use of examples)
Who might be the intended
audience? How have you determined
this?
When and where did this original text
become published? What is the
significance of the context behind this
original text? (Historical, Biographical,
Social)
What narrative is used and how does
this influence the audience?
(Document and discuss the plot and
characters of the text)
Answers from Original Poem (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
This purpose of the original poem is to show how the youth’s lives don’t matter and how
easily a live can be wasted. It talks about the sadness of death and war and how easily
people move on. It talks about their past, and the recognition that the youth deserve.
The intended audience is for anyone, who does not understand the effects of death and
how many youths have died.
"Anthem for Doomed Youth" was written by British poet Wilfred Owen in 1917, while
Owen was in the hospital recovering from injuries and trauma resulting from his military
service during World War I. The poem laments the loss of young life in war and describes
the sensory horrors of combat.
(reference the biographical form assignment)
The poem talks about the guns, and aggression of the war. It uses cattle to describe the
soldiers in an impersonal way. It talks about how there is no sound except for this
aggression and talks about how no one is talking or knows about the death of these boys.
It also talks about the people they left at home, their wives and girlfriends and the
sadness only the families of the dead could experience.
Consider the perspective(s)
presented within the original text?
Describe them and their impact on the
audience and narrative (Look at who is
speaking and presenting information
and ideas within the original text)
The perspective within this text is third person omniscient. It pictures the men through
the lens of a narrator who feels sorry for them, but does not know their past lives.
Through this perspective, people are able to feel sorry for all soldiers, not specific to any
certain situation. They are able to peer in and see the death of war without it being
personal.

What tone is used and how does this

influence the audience and narrative?
(Think about the emotional response
the author is trying to generate within
the audience)
What is the structure of the original
text and how does this influence the
audience and narrative?
The tone used in this poem is saddening and destructive as it describes death. It is also
described in a defeated tone, like the war has taken everything from everyone. This helps
the reader sympathies with the soldiers and feel sorry.
The structure of this original text is one stanza with 13 lines. The rhyming scheme in the
first 8 lines is ABAB, and the other 6 lines is ABBACC. This makes the poem shorter, which
can be considered both a good and bad thing. It is good, as the poem is short, sharp and
shiny, but bad as it may not convey as much as it could.

Look at the language and stylistic

features of the original text. Describe The language features of this text include, repetition, imagery, motive language,
them, identify what makes them unique personification and metaphors. They help the audience feel the sadness of the poetry and
and how they influence the audience help keep the rhythm. They also help the audience picture what the soldiers experienced.
and narrative.
What are the key and essential ideas
and issues presented within the
original text? How does the original The ideas within this text are Horrors and pity of the war, death, suffering and youth are
text’s author discuss them? the major themes of this poem. Other ideas include, the struggle of getting over death
and how easily others can get over it.

IF you are electing to create a Short
Story Text Transformation, then please
discuss the conventions of a short
story (discuss a rough outline of how
your short story will look)
My short story will be on a teenage girl, who’ brother died a year ago. She is still
struggling with the death, although no one else seems to care. Her parents have moved
on and her friends have stopped caring. It will reflect her struggles with death and how
hard it is to manage getting over death. She reflects on how life can easily be taken away,
and how she can still hear the accident.

Passage From Original Text (To be Transformed): Use the whole poem or a certain section, remember to be
specific

Recommended Process

Using your identified Key Idea of the text, decide which Perspective(s) you aim to use to discuss a major part or theme of
the original text.

Consider who the Intended Audience of the original text is. Think about what they will expected from a transformation of
the original text.

Attempt to write from this selected Perspective(s) about their thoughts and outlooks on a theme of the text.

Look at how the Context of the original text will shape the next Key Idea you discuss.
 Consider the Tone, Language and Stylistic choices you are making within your transformation text. Are they consistent
with the original text?

Lastly, ensure that the Narrative or News Report has addressed all the critical aspects that make the original text
important. Ensure your intertextual creation has a well aligned Purpose with the original text

Resources
Poetry List: Available on DayMap