For those that are studying English Literature A at AS (7711) and A level (7712) on the AQA board of examiners, here is a list of the poems from their specification analysed. Students can either choose to study from one of two set lists: AQA anthology of love poetry through the ages pre-1900 or post-1900. Please feel free to skip to the list most applicable and read the analysis of the poem/s 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 (7711) and A Level (7712) English Literature A
Anthology: love poetry through the ages post-1900
- I, being born a woman by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Love and a Question by Robert Frost
- A quoi bon dire by Charlotte Mew
- One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings
- Meeting Point by Louis MacNeice
- For My Lover, Returning To His Wife by Anne Sexton
- Wild Oats by Philip Larkin
- Talking in Bed by Philip Larkin
- Punishment by Seamus Heaney
- Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Douglas
- Timer by Tony Harrison
- The Love Poem by Carol Ann Duffy
- Long Finish by Paul Muldoon
- To John Donne by Michael Symmons Roberts
- After the Lunch by Wendy Cope
Anthology: love poetry through the ages pre-1900
- Whose list to Hunt by Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
- The Flea by John Donne
- To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
- The Scrutiny by Richard Lovelace
- Absent from Thee by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
- The Garden of Love by William Blake
- As Fond Kiss by Robert Burns
- She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
- Remember by Christina Rossetti
- The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy
- At an Inn by Thomas Hardy
- La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
- Non sun qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson