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)
Tragedy (from AQA English Literature 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 Literature 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
