Here at PoemAnalysis.com, we have the largest database of poetry analysis online and that is a fact! For those that are studying English Literature (8702) at GCSE level on the AQA board of examiners, here is a list of the poems from their Past and Present: poetry anthology analysed. This includes both sections from the ‘Love and Relationships’ and ‘Power and Conflict’ lists. Therefore, please feel free to skip to 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 English Literature (8702) – Past and Present: Poems Anthology
Love and Relationships
- Lord Byron – When We Two Parted
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Love’s Philosophy
- Robert Browning – Porphyria’s Lover
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’
- Thomas Hardy – Neutral Tones
- Maura Dooley – Letters From Yorkshire
- Charlotte Mew – The Farmer’s Bride
- Cecil Day Lewis – Walking Away
- Charles Causley – Eden Rock
- Seamus Heaney – Follower
- Simon Armitage – Mother, any distance
- Carol Ann Duffy – Before You Were Mine
- Owen Sheers – Winter Swans
- Daljit Nagra – Singh Song!
- Andrew Waterhouse – Climbing My Grandfather
Power and Conflict
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Ozymandias
- William Blake – London
- William Wordsworth – Extract from, The Prelude
- Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
- Alfred Lord Tennyson – The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Wilfred Owen – Exposure
- Seamus Heaney – Storm on the Island
- Ted Hughes – Bayonet Charge
- Simon Armitage – Remains
- Jane Weir – Poppies
- Carol Ann Duffy – War Photographer
- Imtiaz Dharker – Tissue
- Carol Rumens – The Émigrée
- John Agard – Checking Out Me History
- Beatrice Garland – Kamikaze