AQA GCSE English Literature ‘Past and Present’ Poetry Anthology Analysed

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AQA English Literature (8702) – Past and Present: Poems Anthology

Love and Relationships

1. Lord Byron – When We Two Parted
2. Percy Bysshe Shelley – Love’s Philosophy
3. Robert Browning – Porphyria’s Lover
4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’
5. Thomas Hardy – Neutral Tones
6. Maura Dooley – Letters From Yorkshire
7. Charlotte Mew – The Farmer’s Bride
8. Cecil Day Lewis – Walking Away
9. Charles Causley – Eden Rock
10. Seamus Heaney – Follower
11. Simon Armitage – Mother, any distance
12. Carol Ann Duffy – Before You Were Mine
13. Owen Sheers – Winter Swans
14. Daljit Nagra – Singh Song!
15. Andrew Waterhouse – Climbing My Grandfather

Power and Conflict

1. Percy Bysshe Shelley – Ozymandias
2. William Blake – London
3. William Wordsworth – Extract from, The Prelude
4. Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
5. Alfred Lord Tennyson – The Charge of the Light Brigade
6. Wilfred Owen – Exposure
7. Seamus Heaney – Storm on the Island
8. Ted Hughes – Bayonet Charge
9. Simon Armitage – Remains
10. Jane Weir – Poppies
11. Carol Ann Duffy – War Photographer
12. Imtiaz Dharker – Tissue
13. Carol Rumens – The Émigrée
14. John Agard – Checking Out Me History
15. Beatrice Garland – Kamikaze