GCSE English Literature for AQA Poetry Student Book (Paperback)

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 Emigree ? 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