AQA A Level English Literature B (7717) Poems Analysed

For those that are studying English Literature B (7717) at A level on the AQA board of examiners, here is a list of the poems from their specification analysed. This includes both a selection of poems from the Tragedy and Comedy list, found in the AQA English Literature B Poetry Anthology. Please feel free to skip to and read the analysis of the poem most relevant to you. If you want a poem to be analysed that you cannot find on the site too, please feel free to contact us.

AQA A Level English Literature B (7717) Poems Analysed

Tragedy (from AQA English Litearature B Poetry Anthology)

• Extracts from The Prologue of The Monk’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer (still analysing)
• Jessie Cameron by Christina Rossetti
• Extract from Paradise Lost by John Milton (still analysing)
• Tithonus by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy
• The Death of Cuchulain by William Butler Yeats
• Out Out by Robert Frost
• Death in Leamington by John Betjeman
• Miss Gee by W.H. Auden

Comedy (from AQA English Litearature B Poetry Anthology)

• The Flea by John Donne
• Tam o’ Shanter by Robert Burns (still analysing)
• A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General by Jonathan Swift
• Sunny Prestatyn by Philip Larkin
• Mrs Sisyphus by Carol Ann Duffy
• Not My Best Side by U.A. Fanthorpe
• My Rival’s House by Liz Lochhead