Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in English 9695 Poems Analyzed

For those that are studying the Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature (English) (9695), there is a list of poems for which the student must study in preparation for answering a question about any one of them, taken from the syllabus.

Since PoemAnalysis.com has the largest database of poetry analysis on the internet, you can find below every poem analyzed from the course, which, in total, is 45 poems for 2021-23 (if it has not yet been analyzed, we are working very hard to get it analyzed as soon as possible). Please feel free to skip to the poem most relevant to you and if you want a poem to be analyzed that you cannot find on the site too, feel free to contact us.

What poems apply to the course depends on the year:

Robert Browning Poems

(Paper 1, Section B Poetry for 2021, 2022, and 2023)

1. A Face
2. A Light Woman (still analyzing)
3. A Toccata of Galuppi’s (still analyzing)
4. A Woman’s Last Word
5. Among the Rocks
6. Confessions
7. Epilogue
8. ‘How Thet Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix‘
9. Life in a Love
10. Love Among the Ruins
11. Love in a Life
12. Meeting at Night
13. My Last Duchess
14. Pictor Ignotus (still analyzing)
15. Porphyria’s Lover
16. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
17. The Bishop Orders His Tomb
18. The Confessional
19. The Laboratory
20. The Last Ride Together
21. The Lost Leader
22. The Lost Mistress (still analyzing)
23. The Patriot
24. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
25. Women and Roses

2023: Songs of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Poetry in English, Volume 2

• The Clod and the Pebble by William Blake
• Passion by Kathleen Raine
• Winter Song by Elizabeth Tollett
• Love (III) by George Herbert
• ‘She was a Phantom of Delight’ by William Wordsworth
• Surplus Value by David C Ward (still analyzing)
• Father Returning Home by Dilip Chitre
• In the Park by Gwen Harwood
• The Lost Woman… by Patricia Beer
• Stabat Mater by Sam Hunt
• Australia 1970 by Judith Wright
• Description of Spring by Henry Howard, Early of Surrey
• The Spring by Thomas Carew
• The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
• Eel Tail by Alice Oswald
• The Buck in the Snow by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• The Storm-Wind by William Barnes
• The Sea and the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
• Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker
• The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean by Robinson Jeffers
• The Road by Nancy Fotheringham Cato
• Who in One Lifetime by Muriel Rukeyser
• The Hour is Come by Louisa Lawson
• an afternoon nap by Arthur Yap
• from The Complaints of Poverty by Nicholas James
• A Long Journey by Musaemura Zimunya
• I Hear an Army… by James Joyce
• Growing Old by Matthew Arnold
• from Fears in Solitude by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Renouncement by Alice Meynell

2021-22: Songs of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Poetry in English, Volume 2

(Paper 1, Section B Poetry for 2021 and 2022)

1. Song by Lady Mary Wroth
2. If Thou must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3. The Wedding by Moniza Alvi
4. The Pride of Lions by Joanna Preston
5. Sonnet 19 by William Shakespeare
6. Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening by Charlotte Smith (still analyzing)
7. The Mountain by Elizabeth Bishop
8. The Cry of the Children by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9. Shirt by Robert Pinsky
10. The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood (still analyzing)
11. First March by Ivor Gurney
12. On the Day of Judgement by Jonathan Swift
13. Darkness by George Gordon, Lord Byron
14. A Complaint by William Wordsworth
15. A Song of Faith Forsworn by John Warren, Lord de Tabley
16. Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor by John Dryden
17. When We Two Parted by George Gordon, Lord Byron
18. Homecoming by Lauris Edmond (still analyzing)
19. I Years had been from Home by Emily Dickinson
20. Waterfall by Lauris Edmond
21. When You are Old by William Butler Yeats
22. On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year by George Gordon, Lord Byron
23. Distant Fields/ANZAC Parade by Rhian Gallagher
24. The Death-Bed by Siegfried Sassoon (still analyzing)
25. A Wife in London (December, 1899) by Thomas Hardy
26. Futility by Wilfred Owen
27. The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
28. Sleep by Kenneth Slessor

Gillian Clarke: Selected Poems

(Paper 1, Section B Poetry for 2021, 2022, and 2023)

1. Advent
2. Apples (still analyzing)
3. Baby-sitting
4. Blaen Cwrt
5. Burning Nettles (still analyzing)
6. Catrin
7. Climbing Cader Idris (still analyzing)
8. Cold Knap Lake
9. Death of a Cat (still analyzing)
10. Death of a Young Woman
11. February
12. Hare in July (still analyzing)
13. Hearthstone (still analyzing)
14. Icthyosaur (still analyzing)
15. Journey
16. Lunchtime Lecture
17. Miracle on St David’s Day
18. My Box
19. Neighbours
20. Pipistrelle
21. Post Script (still analyzing)
22. Ram (still analyzing)
23. Scything (still analyzing)
24. Seal
25. Stealing Peas (still analyzing)
26. Sunday
27. The Lighthouse (still analyzing)
28. Times Like These (still analyzing)
29. White Roses

Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems

(Paper 4, Section A Poetry for 2021, 2022, and 2023)

1. A Bird came down the Walk –
2. A Murmur in the Trees – to note –
3. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
4. A still – Volcano – Life –
5. After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
6. An awful Tempest mashed the air –
7. As imperceptibly as Grief
8. Because I could not stop for Death –
9. “Hope” is the thing with feathers –
10. I can wade Grief –
11. I cautious, scanned my little life –
12. I did not reach Thee
13. I dreaded that first Robin, so,
14. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
15. I have a Bird in spring
16. I have never seen “Volcanoes”
17. I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
18. I measure every Grief I meet
19. I’m Nobody! Who are you?
20. It was not Death, for I stood up,
21. My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –
22. One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted –
23. The Brain – is wider than the Sky –
24. The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants –
25. The Wind – tapped like a tired Man –
26. There came a Wind like a Bugle –
27. There’s a certain Slant of light,
28. This World is not Conclusion
29. ‘Twas the old-road – through pain –
30. What mystery pervades a well! (still analyzing)
31. Whose cheek is this?
32. Wild Nights – Wild Nights!

Derek Walcott: Selected Poems

(Paper 4, Section B Poetry for 2021)

1. A Careful Passion (still analyzing)
2. Adam’s Song (still analyzing)
3. Ebb
4. Forest of Europe (still analyzing)
5. Homecoming: Anse La Raye
6. Lampfall
7. Landfall, Grenada (still analyzing)
8. Mass Man (still analyzing)
9. Nearing Forty
10. Oddjob, a Bull Terrier
11. Parades, Parades
12. Ruins of a Great House
13. Sabbaths, WI (still analyzing)
14. Sea Canes (still analyzing)
15. The Almond Trees
16. The Bright Field (still analyzing)
17. The Castaway (still analyzing)
18. The Flock (still analyzing)
19. The Schooner Flight, Chapter 11: After the Storm (still analyzing)
20. The Virgins
21. The Walk (still analyzing)
22. The Wind in the Dooryard
23. To Return to the Trees (still analyzing)
24. Veranda (still analyzing)

Stephen Spender: Selected Poems

(Paper 4, Section B Poetry for 2021, 2022, and 2023)

1. A Father in Time of War (still analyzing)
2. A First War Childhood (still analyzing)
3. A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map
4. Air Raid
5. An Elementary School Class Room in a Slum
6. Darkness and Light
7. Hampstead Autumn (still analyzing)
8. ‘If it were not too late!’ (still analyzing)
9. In No Man’s Land (still analyzing)
10. Missing My Daughter
11. No Orpheus, No Eurydice (still analyzing)
12. Nocturne (still analyzing)
13. Polar Exploration (still analyzing)
14. Seascape
15. ‘That girl who laughed and had black eyes’
16. The Double Shame
17. The Past Values (still analyzing)
18. The Separation (still analyzing)
19. Two Armies
20. V (still analyzing)
21. VIII (still analyzing)
22. War Photograph (still analyzing)
23. XI (still analyzing)
24. XII (still analyzing)
25. XIII: What I Expected
26. XVII (still analyzing)
27. XXI: Without That Once Clear Aim
28. XXII (still analyzing)
29. XXIV (still analyzing)
30. XXVI The Express
31. XXVIII The Pylons
32. XXX: In Railway Halls

Jackie Kay: Selected Poems from Darling: New & Selected Poems

(Paper 4, Section B Poetry for 2021, 2022, and 2023)

1. Away from You (still analyzing)
2. Blues (still analyzing)
3. Brendon Gallacher
4. Childhood, Still (still analyzing)
5. Church Invisible (still analyzing)
6. Compound Fracture (still analyzing)
7. Darling
8. Divorce
9. Dressing Up (still analyzing)
10. Even the trees (still analyzing)
11. False Memory (still analyzing)
12. From Stranraer, South (still analyzing)
13. Gambia (still analyzing)
14. Going to See King Lear
15. Got You
16. He Told Us He Wanted a Black Coffin (still analyzing)
17. In the Seventh Year
18. Keeping Orchids (still analyzing)
19. Life Mask (still analyzing)
20. Love Nest
21. My Grandmother
22. My Grandmother’s Houses
23. Plague
24. Pork Pies
25. Pride
26. Rubble
27. Teeth (still analyzing)
28. The Crossing (still analyzing)
29. The Keeper (still analyzing)
30. The Right Season (still analyzing)
31. The Same Note
32. The Underground Baby Case

Sujata Bhatt: Selected Poems from Point No Point

(Paper 4, Section B Poetry for 2022 and 2023)

1. 29 April 1989
2. 3 November 1984
3. A Different History
4. A Story for Pearse (still analyzing)
5. Angels’ Wings (still analyzing)
6. Counting Sheep White Blood Cells (still analyzing)
7. Eurydice Speaks (still analyzing)
8. For Nanabhai Bhatt
9. Garlic in War and Peace (still analyzing)
10. Genealogy (still analyzing)
11. Go to Ahmedabad
12. Iris
13. Marie Curie to Her Husband (still analyzing)
14. Nanabhai Bhatt in Prison (still analyzing)
15. Oranges and Lemons (still analyzing)
16. Orpheus Confesses to Eurydice (still analyzing)
17. Rooms by the Sea (still analyzing)
18. Sujata: The First Disciple of Buddha (still analyzing)
19. The Echoes in Poona (still analyzing)
20. The Langur Coloured Night (still analyzing)
21. The Need to Recall the Journey
22. The One Who Goes Away
23. The Peacock
24. The Stare
25. The Stinking Rose
26. The Writer (still analyzing)
27. Walking Across the Brooklyn Bridge, July 1990 (still analyzing)
28. We are Adrift (still analyzing)
29. What Happened to the Elephant?

John Donne: Selected Poems

(Paper 4, Section A Poetry for 2023)

1. A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy’s Day, being the shortest day
2. A Valediction: forbidding Mourning
3. Air and Angels
4. Break of Day
5. Elegy 5: His Picture
6. Elegy 7
7. Elegy 9: The Autumnal (still analyzing)
8. Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed
9. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 2
10. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 4 (still analyzing)
11. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 6 (still analyzing)
12. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 7 (still analyzing)
13. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 9
14. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 10 (still analyzing)
15. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 14 (still analyzing)
16. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 17
17. Love’s Growth
18. Song: Go catch a falling star
19. The Anniversary
20. The Apparition
21. The Bait
22. The Canonization
23. The Dream
24. The Ecstasy
25. The Expiration (still analyzing)
26. The Flea
27. The Good Morrow
28. The Relic
29. The Sun Rising
30. The Undertaking
31. Twickenham Garden