Weaving context, ideology and period conventions into a poetry comparison

What this note covers

1. What Criterion 2 actually rewards
2. The weaving technique: context inside the sentence, not before it
3. Naming and explaining period conventions
4. Prevailing ideology: from courtly love to feminist and postcolonial re-readings
5. Worked example: turning a bolted-on context paragraph into woven analysis
6. Common paragraph structures that work for a sixty-minute comparative essay
7. How Section A Question 1 examines this and what separates a top response

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