AQA AS English Literature B (7716) Poems Analysed

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 analysed. 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 analysed 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 analysing)
• Under the Waterfall
• Lament
• Rain on a Grave
• Your Last Drive
• The Going
• The Haunter (still analysing)
• 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

John Keats

• Lamia (still analysing)
• Isabella or The Pot of Basil (still analysing)
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci
• The Eve of St. Agnes

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 (still analysing)
• 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 analysing)
• Late – Flowering Lust

Geoffrey Chaucer

• The Nun’s Priest’s Tale (including Prologue and Epilogue) (still analysing)

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