GCSE English Literature for AQA Poetry Student Book

Exploring and comparing poetry; Poems past and present – the AQA Anthology; Cluster 1. Love and relationships: Unit 1. When We Two Parted – Lord Byron; Unit 2. Love's Philosophy – Percy Bysshe Shelley; Unit 3. Porphyria's Lover – Robert Browning; Unit 4. Sonnet 29 – 'I think of thee!' – Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Unit 5. Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy; Unit 6. The Farmer's Bride – Charlotte Mew; Unit 7. Walking Away – Cecil Day-Lewis; Unit 8. Letters from Yorkshire – Maura Dooley; Unit 9. Eden Rock – Charles Causley; Unit 10. Follower – Seamus Heaney; Unit 11. Mother, any distance – Simon Armitage; Unit 12. Before You Were Mine – Carol Ann Duffy; Unit 13. Winter Swans – Owen Sheers; Unit 14. Singh Song! – Daljit Nagra; Unit 15. Climbing My Grandfather – Andrew Waterhouse; Unit 16. Comparing poems: Developing skills in comparing poems; Poem pair 1. 'Walking Away' and 'Follower'; Poem pair 2. 'Neutral Tones' and 'Winter Swans'; Poem pair 3. 'Mother, any distance' and 'Before You Were Mine'; Example response. 'Love's Philosophy' and 'The Farmer's Bride'; Cluster 2. Power and conflict: Unit 1. Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley; Unit 2. London – William Blake; Unit 3. Extract from The Prelude – William Wordsworth; Unit 4. My Last Duchess – Robert Browning; Unit 5. The Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred Lord Tennyson; Unit 6. Exposure – Wilfred Owen; Unit 7. Storm on the Island – Seamus Heaney; Unit 8. Bayonet Charge – Ted Hughes; Unit 9. Remains – Simon Armitage; Unit 10. Poppies – Jane Weir; Unit 11. War Photographer – Carol Ann Duffy; Unit 12. Tissue – Imtiaz Dharker; Unit 13. The Emigrée – Carol Rumens; Unit 14. Kamikaze – Beatrice Garland; Unit 15. Checking Out Me History – John Agard; Unit 16. Comparing poems: Developing skills in comparing poems; Poem pair 1. 'Bayonet Charge' and 'Exposure'; Poem pair 2. 'Storm on the Island' and 'Ozymandias'; Poem pair 3. 'Kamikaze' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'; Example response. 'London' and the extract from 'The Prelude'; UNSEEN POETRY: Develop your response: poem pair 1; Develop your response: poem pair 2; Improve your response: poem pair 3; Improve your response: poem pair 4; PREPARING FOR YOUR EXAM: Practice questions. Section B Poetry; Section C Unseen poetry; Practice questions: Section C Unseen poetry; Glossary; Acknowledgements