Year 9 English asks for genuine argument, not summary. Students who master the difference now write their way into top classes for Year 10 and beyond.
The fact that you are looking means you are already doing the right thing.
In the second stanza the poet describes the house as having ‘windows like closed eyes’. The simile makes the building seem asleep, or perhaps unwilling to see. This adds to the feeling of loneliness in the poem.
★You locate the image precisely in the second stanza rather than gesturing at the poem generally.
★You offer two readings of the same simile, which is interpretation rather than summary.
★You use the term simile accurately and do not stop at simply labelling it.
✦‘Unwilling to see’ is your sharper idea and you drop it for loneliness. Follow that reading through: what is the house unwilling to see?
“In the final stanza the poet calls the gate ‘a mouth that will not open’. The metaphor suggests the house is refusing the speaker rather than simply standing empty. Because the refusal is active, her loneliness begins to feel like something being done to her.”
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