Here on PoemAnalysis.com, we have the largest database of poetry analysis on the internet. For those that are studying a GCSE in English Literature with the examining body CCEA (Council for the Curriculum, Examination, and Assessment), then you will know that there are a few anthologies of poems to analyze ranging from Love and Death, Nature and War and Heaney and Hardy, to help prepare for Section B of Unit 2. With this, here is an analysis of all of the poems on the CCEA GCSE English Literature syllabus (if it has not yet been analyzed, our team of poetry experts will be working hard to get the poem/s 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.
Identity Poems
- Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
- Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
- Invictus by William Ernest Henley
- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
- Piano by D.H. Lawrence
- Prayer Before Birth by Louis MacNeice
- I Remember, I Remember by Philip Larkin
- Catrin by Gillian Clarke
- Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson
- In Mrs Tilscher’s Class by Carol Ann Duffy
- Kid by Simon Armitage
- Here by R.S. Thomas
- Docker by Seamus Heaney
- Genetics by Sinéad Morrissey
- Efface by Paul Maddern (still analyzing)
Relationship Poems
- On My First by Son by Ben Jonson
- Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
- How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
- The Laboratory by Robert Browning
- Remember by Christina Rossetti
- When You Are Old by W.B. Yeats
- I carry your heart by E.E. Cummings
- Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden
- Long Distance II by Tony Harrison
- Wild Oats by Philip Larkin
- Symptoms of Love by Robert Graves (still analyzing)
- Before you were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy
- Clearances 7: In the last minutes by Seamus Heaney
- I am very bothered by Simon Armitage
Conflict Poems
- The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Vitaï Lampada by Henry Newbolt (still analyzing)
- The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
- Who’s for the Game? by Jessie Pope
- Easter Monday (In Memoriam E.T.) (1917) by Eleanor Farjeon
- Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by W.B. Yeats (still analyzing)
- What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Douglas
- Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes
- Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney
- Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers
- Last Post by Carol Ann Duffy
- Poppies by Jane Weir
- Out of the Blue – 12 by Simon Armitage
