CCEA GCE English Literature ‘The Study of Poetry’ Full List Analysed

For those that are studying the CCEA GCE A level English Literature (5110), 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 (pdf here). This includes the likes of Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, John Keats, Elizabeth Browning, and more.

Since PoemAnalysis.com has the largest database of poetry analysis on the internet, you can find below every poem analyzed from the GCE AS and A level course (subject code: 5110). 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.

CCEA GCE English Literature (5110)

Prescribed Poems for Unit AS 1 Section A – The Study of Poetry 1900–Present

Robert Frost

• Into My Own
• Mowing
• Going For Water
• Mending Wall
• After Apple-Picking
• The Road Not Taken
• Birches
• “Out, Out –”
• For Once, Then, Something
• Gathering Leaves
• Acquainted With The Night
• Desert Places

Seamus Heaney

• Personal Helicon
• The Forge
• The Peninsula
• The Wife’s Tale
• Bogland
• The Harvest Bow
• The Railway Children
• The Summer of Lost Rachel
• Postscript
• ‘Had I not been awake’
• The Conway Stewart
• The Baler (still analyzing)

Ted Hughes

• The Thought-Fox
• Wind
• Hawk Roosting
• Relic
• Pike
• Full Moon and Little Frieda
• Wodwo
• Lovesong
• Roe-Deer
• Crow Sickened
• Daffodils (still analyzing)
• A Picture of Otto

Sylvia Plath

• Sheep in Fog
• Lady Lazarus
• Tulips
• The Night Dances
• Ariel
• Daddy
• The Arrival of the Bee Box
• Poppies in July
• Contusion
• Mirror
• The Colossus
• Blackberrying (still analyzing)

Elizabeth Jennings

• Identity
• Song At The Beginning of Autumn
• Absence
• Fountain
• Letter from Assisi (still analyzing)
• The Annunciation
• My Grandmother
• The Young Ones
• Night Sister
• A Depression (still analyzing)
• Love Poem
• One Flesh

Philip Larkin

• Church Going
• Love Songs in Age
• Faith Healing
• For Sidney Bechet
• The Whitsun Weddings
• Talking in Bed
• Dockery and Son (still analyzing)
• Aubade
• High Windows (still analyzing)
• The Old Fools
• Solar
• The Explosion (still analyzing)

Eavan Boland

• Ode to Suburbia (still analyzing)
• Anorexic
• The Journey
• The Singers (still analyzing)
• This Moment
• Love
• Witness
• How We Made a New Art on Old Ground
• Is it Still the Same
• And Soul
• Cityscape
• Amethyst Beads

Jean Bleakney

• Breaking the Surface
• Nightscapes
• Out To Tender
• How Can You Say That?
• Spring
• A Watery City
• Self-Portraits with Measuring Tape (still analyzing)
• Donegal Sightings
• Csontváry’s Flowers (still analyzing)
• Notes for the Almanac (still analyzing)
• Consolidation
• Winterisation

Prescribed Poems for Unit A2 2 Section A – The Study of Poetry Pre 1900

John Donne

• The Anniversary
• The Flea
• The Good Morrow
• A Jet Ring Sent
• The Sun Rising
• The Triple Fool (still analyzing)
• A Valediction: forbidding Mourning
• Here take my picture, though I bid farewell (still analyzing)
• Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
• I am a little world
• This is my play’s last scene
• Death be not proud
• Spit in my face, ye Jews, and pierce my side
• Batter my heart, three-personed God
• Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt (still analyzing)
• A Hymn to God the Father

William Blake

• The Ecchoing Green
• The Lamb
• The Little Black Boy
• The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence)
• Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence)
• Infant Joy
• Introduction (Songs of Experience)
• Holy Thursday
• The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Experience)
• The Tyger
• The Garden of Love
• The Little Vagabond
• London
• Infant Sorrow
• The School Boy

John Keats

• On first looking into Chapman’s Homer
• Sleep and Poetry (still analyzing)
• The Eve of St. Agnes
• Ode to a Nightingale
• Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Ode to Psyche
• To Autumn
• Ode on Melancholy
• On first seeing the Elgin Marbles
• On the Sea
• When I have fears that I may cease to be
• Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art
• Ode on Indolence
• La Belle Dame sans Merci

Emily Dickinson

• An awful Tempest mashed the air –
• I’m “wife” – I’ve finished that –
• There’s a certain Slant of light,
• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
• How the old Mountains drip with Sunset
• There came a Day at Summer’s full
• I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
• It was not Death, for I stood up,
• I cannot live with You –
• One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted –
• Because I could not stop for Death –
• She rose to His Requirement – dropt
• The Last Night that She lived

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• The Cry of the Children
• The Mask (still analyzing)
• The face of all the world is changed, I think (still analyzing)
• What can I give thee back
• And yet, because thou overcomest so
• Beloved, my Beloved, when I think
• Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife
• If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
• Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave
• A Curse for a Nation (still analyzing)
• A False Step
• Void in Law
• My Heart and I
• First News from Villafranca
• Mother and Poet
• The Forced Recruit