For those that are studying Cambridge IGCSE World Literature 0408 course, here is a list of all poems from their syllabus analyzed for the years 2022, 2023, and 2024. If you are struggling to understand any of the terms used in our analysis, explore our literary term glossary.
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Cambridge IGCSE World Literature 0408 Poems (2022-24)
Set texts for examination in 2022
A selection from Songs of Ourselves (Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English) Volume 1. The following 14 poems from Part 3: Poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Carol Rumens – Carpet-weavers, Morocco
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Song to the Men of England
- Hone Tuwhare – Monologue
- Liz Lochhead – Storyteller (still analyzing)
- Charles Lamb – The Old Familiar Faces
- Walter De La Mare – The Listeners
- Thomas Hardy – The Voice
- Allen Curnow – Time (still analyzing)
- Matthew Arnold – Dover Beach
- Ted Hughes – Full Moon and Little Frieda
- Gillian Clarke – Lament
- Vachel Lindsay – The Flower-Fed Buffaloes (still analyzing)
- Boey Kim Cheng – Report to Wordsworth (still analyzing)
- John Clare – First Love
Set texts for examination in 2023
A selection from Songs of Ourselves (Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English) Volume 2. The following 14 poems from Part 2: Birds, Beasts and the Weather:
- Judith Wright – Australia 1970
- Thomas Carew – The Spring
- Philip Larkin – Coming
- Thomas Hardy – The Darkling Thrush
- Ruth Pitter – Stormcock in Elder
- Stevie Smith – Parrot
- Vivian Smith – At the Parrot House, Taronga Park
- Alice Oswald – Eel Tail
- Peter Reading – Cetacean
- David Constantine – Watching for Dolphins
- William Barnes – The Storm-Wind
- Kofi Awoonor – The Sea Eats the Land at Home
- Allen Curnow – You Will Know When You Get There
- Robinson Jeffers – The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean
Set texts for examination in 2024
A selection from Songs of Ourselves (Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English) Volume 2. The following 14 poems from Part 2: Birds, Beasts and the Weather:
- Judith Wright – Australia 1970
- Thomas Carew – The Spring
- Philip Larkin – Coming
- Thomas Hardy – The Darkling Thrush
- Ruth Pitter – Stormcock in Elder
- Stevie Smith – Parrot (still analyzing)
- Vivian Smith – At the Parrot House, Taronga Park
- Alice Oswald – Eel Tail
- Peter Reading – Cetacean
- David Constantine – Watching for Dolphins
- William Barnes – The Storm-Wind
- Kofi Awoonor – The Sea Eats the Land at Home
- Allen Curnow – You Will Know When You Get There
- Robinson Jeffers – The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean
