AQA GCSE ‘Moon on the Tides’ Poetry Anthology Analysed

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AQA English Literature GCSE – ‘Moon of the Tides’ Poetry Anthology

Character and Voice

1. ‘The Clown Punk’ by Simon Armitage
2. ‘Checking Out Me History’ by John Agard
3. ‘Horse Whisperer’ by Andrew Forster
4. ‘Medusa’ by Carol Ann Duffy
5. ‘Singh Song!’ by Daljit Nagra
6. ‘Brendon Gallacher’ by Jackie Kay
7. ‘Give’ by Simon Armitage
8. ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’ by Dorothy Molloy
9. ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley
10. ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning
11. ‘The River God’ by Stevie Smith
12. ‘The Hunchback in the Park’ by Dylan Thomas
13. ‘The Ruined Maid’ by Thomas Hardy
14. ‘Casehistory: Alison (head injury)’ by U.A. Fanthorpe
15. ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’ by John Betjeman

Place

1. ‘The Blackbird of Glanmore’ by Seamus Heaney
2. ‘A Vision’ by Simon Armitage
3. ‘The Moment’ by Margaret Atwood
4. ‘Cold Knap Lake’ by Gillian Clarke
5. ‘Price We Pay for the Sun’ by Grace Nichols
6. ‘Neighbours’ by Gillian Clarke
7. ‘Crossing the Loch’ by Kathleen Jamie
8. ‘Hard Water’ by Jean Sprackland
9. ‘London’ by William Blake
10. ‘The Prelude’ extract by William Wordsworth
11. ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ by W.B. Yeats
12. ‘Spellbound’ by Emily Brontë
13. ‘Below the Green Corrie’ by Norman MacCaig
14. ‘Storm in the Black Forest’ by D.H. Lawrence
15. ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes

Conflict

1. ‘Flag’ by John Agard
2. ‘Out of the Blue’ extract by Simon Armitage
3. ‘Mametz Wood’ by Owen Sheers
4. ‘The Yellow Palm’ by Robert Minhinnick
5. ‘The Right Word’ by Imtiaz Dharker
6. ‘At the Border’ by Choman Hardi
7. ‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciaran Carson
8. ‘Poppies’ by Jane Weir
9. ‘Futility’ by Wilfred Owen
10. ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred Tennyson
11. ‘Bayonet Charge’ by Ted Hughes
12. ‘The Falling Leaves’ by Margaret Postgate Cole
13. ‘Come On, Come Back’ by Stevie Smith
14. ‘next to of course god america i’ by E.E. Cummings
15. ‘Hawk Roosting’ by Ted Hughes

Relationships

1. ‘The Manhunt’ by Simon Armitage
2. ‘Hour’ by Carol Ann Duffy
3. ‘In Paris With You’ by James Fenton
4. ‘Quickdraw’ by Carol Ann Duffy
5. ‘Ghazal’ by Mimi Khalvati
6. ‘Brothers’ by Andrew Forster
7. ‘Praise Song for My Mother’ by Grace Nichols
8. ‘Harmonium’ by Simon Armitage
9. Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
10. Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
11. ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell
12. ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ by Charlotte Mew
13. ‘Sister Maude’ by Christina Rossetti
14. ‘Nettles’ by Vernon Scannell
15. ‘Born Yesterday’ by Phillip Larkin