Year 11 2015-2016 Poetry for GCSE Literature Controlled
Assessment.
Below are the poems that need to be studied.
Pupils will then focus on at least three poems from this list to write about
in more detail:
1. The Passionate Shepherd to his love – Christopher Marlowe
2. The Flea- John Donne
3. The Sun Rising (Key poem) – John Donne
4. Sonnet 43 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5. Valentine (Key poem) – Carol Ann Duffy
6. Cousin Kate- Christina Rossetti
7. The Almond Tree – Jon Stallworthy
8. Porphyria’s Lover – Robert Browning
9. My Last Duchess – Robert Browning
10.They did not expect this – Vernon Scannell
11.To His Coy Mistriss. – Andrew Marvell
12.Song : The Willing Mistress – Aphra Benn
13.A Woman to her lover – Christina Walsh
14.Twice Shy – Seamus Heaney
15.Sonnet 18 - Shakespeare