AQA A-level English Language and Literature (7707)

For those that are studying English Literature Language and Literature (7707) at A level on the AQA board of examiners, here is a list of the poems from their specification analysed.

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AQA A Level English Lang. and Lit. (7707) Poems Analysed

John Donne ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. Air and Angels ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. The Anniversary ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. The Apparition ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. The Canonization ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. The Flea ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. The Good Morrow ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Woman’s Constancy ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. Elegy: To His Mistress Going to Bed ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. A Jet Ring Sent ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. The Relic ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. The Sun Rising ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. The Triple Fool ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. Twicknam Garden ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. Elegy: His Picture ^{[PDF Guide]}

Robert Browning ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. My Last Duchess ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. The Lost Leader ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. The Laboratory ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Cristina (still analysing)
5. Johannes Agricola in Meditation (still analysing)
6. Porphyria’s Lover ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Home Thoughts, From Abroad ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. Meeting at Night ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Parting at Morning ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. ‘De Gustibus–’ (still analysing)
11. Prospice ^{[PDF Guide]}

Carol Ann Duffy ^{[PDF Guide]} (selected from Mean Time):

1. The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team (still analysing)
2. Nostalgia ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Before You Were Mine ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Beachcomber (still analysing)
5. First Love (still analysing)
6. Valentine ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. The Biographer (still analysing)
8. Litany ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Stafford Afternoons ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. The Cliché Kid (still analysing)
11. Small Female Skull (still analysing)
12. Never Go Back (still analysing)
13. Close (still analysing)
14. Mean Time ^{[PDF Guide]}

Seamus Heaney ^{[PDF Guide]} (selected from New Selected Poems 1966-1987):

1. Digging ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Blackberry-Picking ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Mid-Term Break ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Night Drive (still analysing)
5. Broagh (still analysing)
6. Punishment ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. The Otter (still analysing)
8. Hailstones (still analysing)
9. Death of a Naturalist ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. Follower ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. Personal Helicon ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Bogland ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. The Tollund Man ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Strange Fruit ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. The Skunk ^{[PDF Guide]}