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978-1-107-45471-2 – GCSE English Literature for AQA Poetry
Trevor Millum and Andy Mort Edited by Peter Thomas
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EXPLORING AND COMPARING POETRY
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POEMS PAST AND PRESENT – THE AQA ANTHOLOGY
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Cluster 1: Love and relationships
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Unit 1
When We Two Parted – Lord Byron
14
Unit 2
Love’s Philosophy – Percy Bysshe Shelley
19
Unit 3
Porphyria’s Lover – Robert Browning
23
Unit 4
Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
28
Unit 5
Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy
32
Unit 6
The Farmer’s Bride – Charlotte Mew
36
Unit 7
Walking Away – Cecil Day-Lewis
41
Unit 8
Letters from Yorkshire – Maura Dooley
45
Unit 9
Eden Rock – Charles Causley
49
Unit 10 Follower – Seamus Heaney
53
Unit 11 Mother, any distance – Simon Armitage
58
Unit 12 Before You Were Mine – Carol Ann Duffy
64
Unit 13 Winter Swans – Owen Sheers
68
Unit 14 Singh Song! – Daljit Nagra
72
Unit 15 Climbing My Grandfather – Andrew Waterhouse
77
Unit 16 Comparing poems
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Developing skills in comparing poems
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Poem pair 1: ‘Walking Away’ and ‘Follower’
83
Poem pair 2: ‘Neutral Tones’ and ‘Winter Swans’
86
Poem pair 3: ‘Mother, any distance’ and ‘Before You Were Mine’
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Example response: ‘Love’s Philosophy’ and ‘The Farmer’s Bride’
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GCSE English Literature for AQA: Poetry
Cluster 2: Power and conflict
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Unit 1
Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Unit 2
London – William Blake
101
Unit 3
Extract from The Prelude – William Wordsworth
105
Unit 4
My Last Duchess – Robert Browning
110
Unit 5
The Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred Lord Tennyson
115
Unit 6
Exposure – Wilfred Owen
120
Unit 7
Storm on the Island – Seamus Heaney
124
Unit 8
Bayonet Charge – Ted Hughes
129
Unit 9
Remains – Simon Armitage
133
Unit 10 Poppies – Jane Weir
137
Unit 11 War Photographer – Carol Ann Duffy
140
Unit 12 Tissue – Imtiaz Dharker
144
Unit 13 The Emigrée – Carol Rumens
148
Unit 14 Kamikaze – Beatrice Garland
152
Unit 15 Checking Out Me History – John Agard
157
Unit 16 Comparing poems
163
Developing skills in comparing poems
165
Poem pair 1: ‘Bayonet Charge’ and ‘Exposure’
165
Poem pair 2: ‘Storm on the Island’ and ‘Ozymandias’
168
Poem pair 3: ‘Kamikaze’ and ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’
171
Example response: ‘London’ and the extract from ‘The Prelude’
174
UNSEEN POETRY
178
Develop your response: poem pair 1
179
Develop your response: poem pair 2
185
Improve your response: poem pair 3
187
Improve your response: poem pair 4
192
PREPARING FOR YOUR EXAM
Practice questions: Section B Poetry
Cluster 1: Love and relationships
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Cluster2:Powerandconflict
198
Section C Unseen poetry
201
Practice questions: Section C Unseen poetry
202
GLOSSARY
206
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
208
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