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Firstly, don't forget that it's normal not to know what a poem is saying straight away! The whole idea of a poem is for a poet to put forward an idea or thought implicitly, using metaphor...

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There are a lot of themes in Frankenstein, and I think which ones are major and which aren't is something we'll be debating. In terms of identifying them, though, we can list them or draw them up...