For those that are studying English Literature B (7716) at AS level on the AQA board of examiners, here is a list of the poems from their specification analyzed. This includes both a selection of poems from Thomas Hardy, John Keats, John Betjeman, Geoffrey Chaucer, as well as 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 analyzed that you cannot find on the site too, please feel free to contact us.
AQA AS Level English Literature B (7716) Poems Analysed
Aspects of Tragedy
Thomas Hardy
- A Sunday Morning Tragedy
- At an Inn
- Tess’s Lament (still analyzing)
- Under the Waterfall
- Lament
- Rain on a Grave
- Your Last Drive
- The Going
- The Haunter (still analyzing)
- At Castle Boterel
- A Trampwoman’s Tragedy
- The Frozen Greenhouse
- The Forbidden Banns
- The Mock Wife
- The Flower’s Tragedy
- After a Journey
- The Newcomer’s Wife
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John Keats
- Lamia (still analyzing)
- Isabella or The Pot of Basil (still analyzing)
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- The Eve of St. Agnes
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Tragedy (from AQA English Literature B Poetry Anthology)
- Extracts from The Prologue of The Monk’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer (still analyzing)
- Jessie Cameron by Christina Rossetti
- Extract from Paradise Lost by John Milton (still analyzing)
- 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
Aspects of Comedy
John Betjeman
- The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
- Upper Lambourne
- In Westminster Abbey
- A Subaltern’s Love Song
- Christmas
- The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
- Senex
- Diary of a Church Mouse
- An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield
- Slough
- On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
- Ireland with Emily
- The Village Inn
- Hunter Trials
- Lenten Thoughts of a High Anglican
- Executive
- Advertising Pays (still analyzing)
- Late – Flowering Lust
Explore the best poems of John Betjeman.
Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Nun’s Priest’s Tale (including Prologue and Epilogue) (still analyzing)
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Comedy (from AQA English Literature B Poetry Anthology)
- The Flea by John Donne
- Tam o’ Shanter by Robert Burns (still analyzing)
- 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
