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 are a list of poems for which the student must study in preparation of answering a question about anyone of them, taken from the syllabus. This includes a list of poems written after 1800 from Hopkins: Selected Poems, Duffy: A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse, Dickinson: Selected Poems, Lochhead: The Colour of Black and White, Heaney: Opened Ground, Montague: John Montague: New Selected Poems, Thomas (E): Selected Poems, Frost: Selected Poems, Yeats: Selected Poems, Kavanagh: Selected Poems, as well as poems written between 1300-1800 from Goldsmith: Selected Poems, and Donne: Selected Poems.

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CCEA GCE English Literature (5110) Poems Analysed

Prescribed Poems for Unit 2 Section A – The Study of Poetry Written after 1800

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems

• God’s Grandeur
• The Starlight Night
• Spring
• Pied Beauty
• The Windhover
• Binsey Poplars
• As Kingfishers Catch Fire
• No Worst, There is None
• Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
• I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
• Carrion Comfort
• My Own Heart Let Me Have Pity On

Emily Dickinson: A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse

• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
• It was not Death, for I stood up
• One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted
• Victory comes late
• A narrow Fellow in the Grass
• The Cricket sang
• An awful Tempest mashed the air
• Fairer through Fading – as the Day
• After great pain, a formal feeling comes
• I saw no Way – The Heavens were stitched
• I dreaded that first Robin, so
• How the old Mountains drip with Sunset

Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems

• Standing Female Nude
• Recognition
• Dolphins
• Warming her Pearls
• Meantime
• Originally
• In Mrs Tilscher’s Class
• Litany
• Good Teachers
• Nostalgia
• The Virgin Punishes the Infant
• The Way My Mother Speaks

Liz Lochhead: The Colour of Black and White

• Lanarkshire Girls
• Redneck
• Aquarium
• The Beekeeper
• Epithalamium
• The Miner
• Sorting Through
• 1953
• View of Scotland
• The Journeyman Paul Cezanne
• The Metal Raw
• After the War

Seamus Heaney: Opened Ground

• The Barn
• The Settle Bed
• A Drink of Water
• The Skunk
• The Forge
• Bogland
• The Strand at Lough Beg
• The Other Side
• Man and Boy
• The Wife’s Tale
• Exposure
• The Ministry of Fear

John Montague: New Selected Poems

• The Water Carrier
• Like Dolmens Round My Childhood
• The Wild Dog Rose – Section 1
• All Legendary Obstacles
• Forge
• A Lost Tradition
• (from) Hymn to the new Omagh Road
• The Errigal Road
• The Silver Flask
• The Locket
• Cassandra’s Answer
• Time in Armagh

Edward Thomas: Selected Poems

• The New Year
• Adlestrop
• Man and Dog
• Beauty
• The Gypsy
• May the twenty-third
• The Owl
• The Glory
• The Chalk Pit
• Haymaking
• Aspens
• As the Team’s Head-Brass

Robert Frost: Selected Poems

• Tuft of Flowers
• Mending Wall
• After Apple Picking
• The Woodpile
• An Old Man’s Winter Night
• The Oven-bird
• Birches
• Out, Out
• Stopping by Woods
• For Once, then Something
• Two Look at Two
• Tree at my Window

William Butler Yeats: Selected Poems

• No Second Troy
• September 1913
• To a Shade
• A Coat
• The Wild Swans at Coole
• In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
• Easter 1916
• The Second Coming
• Leda and the Swan
• Among Schoolchildren
• Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
• The Municipal Gallery Revisited

Patrick Kavanagh: Selected Poems

• Inniskeen Road: July Evening
• Shancoduff
• Stony Grey Soil
• A Christmas Childhood
• Innocence
• Epic
• On Looking into E.V. Rieu’s Homer
• In Memory of My Mother
• The Hospital
• Canal Bank Walk
• Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin
• Irish Poets Open Your Eyes

Prescribed Pems for Unit 3 (A2 1) Section A – The Study of Poetry from 1300-1800

Oliver Goldsmith: Selected Poems

• The Deserted Village

John Donne: Selected Poems

• The Flea
• The Good-Morrow
• The Sun Rising
• The Canonization
• The Anniversary
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
• The Ecstasy
• The Relic
• Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going To Bed
• Love’s Deity
• Good Friday,1613. Riding Westward
• Holy Sonnet VII: At the round earth’s imagin’d corners
• Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart
• Holy Sonnet X: Death, be not proud