Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) English Literature Poems Analysed

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Pearson Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology

Relationships

  1. John Keats [PDF Guide] – La Belle Dame Sans Merci [PDF Guide] (1819) (Romantic)
  2. Joanna Baillie – A Child to his Sick Grandfather [PDF Guide] (1790) (Romantic)
  3. Lord Byron [PDF Guide] – She Walks in Beauty [PDF Guide] (1814) (Romantic)
  4. William Wordsworth [PDF Guide] – A Complaint [PDF Guide] (1807) (Romantic)
  5. Thomas Hardy [PDF Guide] – Neutral Tones [PDF Guide] (1898) (Lit Heritage)
  6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning [PDF Guide] – Sonnet 43 [PDF Guide] (1850) (Lit Heritage)
  7. Robert Browning – My Last Duchess [PDF Guide] (1842) (Lit Heritage)
  8. Wendy Cope – 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He [PDF Guide] (2011) (Contemporary)
  9. Carol Ann Duffy [PDF Guide] – Valentine [PDF Guide] (1993) (Contemporary)
  10. Elizabeth Jennings – One Flesh [PDF Guide] (1966) (Contemporary)
  11. John Cooper Clarke – I Wanna Be Yours [PDF Guide] (1983) (Contemporary)
  12. Jen Hadfield – Love’s Dog [PDF Guide] (2008) (Contemporary)
  13. Vernon Scannell – Nettles [PDF Guide] (1980) (Contemporary)
  14. Simon Armitage – The Manhunt [PDF Guide] (2008) (Contemporary)
  15. Ingrid de Kok – My Father Would Not Show Us [PDF Guide] (1988) (Contemporary)

Conflict

  1. William Blake [PDF Guide] – A Poison Tree [PDF Guide] (1794) (Romantic)
  2. Lord Byron [PDF Guide] – The Destruction of Sennacherib [PDF Guide] (1815) (Romantic)
  3. William Wordsworth [PDF Guide] – Extract from The Prelude [PDF Guide] (1850) (Romantic)
  4. Thomas Hardy [PDF Guide] – The Man He Killed [PDF Guide] (1902) (Lit Heritage)
  5. Christina Rossetti [PDF Guide] – Cousin Kate [PDF Guide] (1860) (Lit Heritage)
  6. Wilfred Owen [PDF Guide] – Exposure [PDF Guide] (1917) (Lit Heritage)
  7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson [PDF Guide] – The Charge of the Light Brigade [PDF Guide] (1854) (Lit Heritage)
  8. John Agard – Half-caste [PDF Guide] (1996) (Contemporary)
  9. Gillian Clarke – Catrin [PDF Guide] (1978) (Contemporary)
  10. Carole Satyamurti – War Photographer [PDF Guide] (1987) (Contemporary)
  11. Ciaran Carson – Belfast Confetti [PDF Guide] (1990) (Contemporary)
  12. Mary Casey – The Class Game [PDF Guide] (1981) (Contemporary)
  13. Jane Weir – Poppies [PDF Guide] (2005) (Contemporary)
  14. Benjamin Zephaniah – No Problem [PDF Guide] (1996) (Contemporary)
  15. Denise Levertov – What Were They Like? [PDF Guide] (1967) (Contemporary)

Time and Place

  1. John Keats [PDF Guide] – To Autumn [PDF Guide] (1820) (Romantic)
  2. William Wordsworth [PDF Guide] – Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 [PDF Guide] (1802) (Romantic)
  3. William Blake [PDF Guide] – London [PDF Guide] (1794) (Romantic)
  4. Emily Dickinson [PDF Guide] – I started Early – Took my Dog [PDF Guide] (1862) (Lit Heritage)
  5. Thomas Hardy [PDF Guide] – Where the Picnic was [PDF Guide] (1914) (Lit Heritage)
  6. Edward Thomas – Adlestrop [PDF Guide] (1917) (Lit Heritage)
  7. Robert Browning [PDF Guide] – Home Thoughts from Abroad [PDF Guide] (1845) (Lit Heritage)
  8. U.A. Fanthorpe – First Flight [PDF Guide] (1988) (Contemporary)
  9. Fleur Adcock – Stewart Island [PDF Guide] (1971) (Contemporary)
  10. Moniza Alvi – Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan [PDF Guide] (2000) (Contemporary)
  11. Grace Nichols – Hurricane Hits England [PDF Guide] (1996) (Contemporary)
  12. Tatamkhulu Afrika – Nothing’s Changed [PDF Guide] (1994) (Contemporary)
  13. Sophie Hannah – Postcard from a Travel Snob [PDF Guide] (1996) (Contemporary)
  14. John Davidson – In Romney Marsh [PDF Guide] (1920) (Contemporary)
  15. Elizabeth Jennings – Absence [PDF Guide] (1958) (Contemporary)

Belonging

  1. William Wordsworth [PDF Guide] – To My Sister [PDF Guide] (Romantic)
  2. John Clare – Sunday Dip [PDF Guide] (Romantic)
  3. Emily Brontë [PDF Guide] – Mild the Mist Upon the Hill [PDF Guide] (Romantic)
  4. Letitia Elizabeth Landon – Captain Cook (To My Brother) [PDF Guide] (Romantic)
  5. Robert Bridges – Clear and Gentle Stream [PDF Guide] (Lit Heritage)
  6. Thomas Hood – I Remember, I Remember [PDF Guide] (Lit Heritage)
  7. Grace Nichols – Island Man [PDF Guide] (Contemporary)
  8. Amy Blakemore – Peckham Rye Lane [PDF Guide] (Contemporary)
  9. Benjamin Zephaniah – We Refugees [PDF Guide] (Contemporary)
  10. Zaffar Kunial – Us [PDF Guide] (Contemporary)
  11. Imtiaz Dharker – In Wales, wanting to be Italian [PDF Guide] (Contemporary)
  12. Kayo Chingonyi – Kumukanda [PDF Guide] (Contemporary)
  13. Raymond Antrobus – Jamaican British [PDF Guide] (Contemporary)
  14. Choman Hardi – My Mother’s Kitchen [PDF Guide] (Contemporary)
  15. Carol Rumens – The Émigrée [PDF Guide] (Contemporary)