Edexcel International Advanced Level (XET01 and YET01) English Lit Poems Analyzed

For those who are studying International Advanced Level English Literature on the Pearson Edexcel board of examiners, here is a list of the required poems analyzed. This includes all the selected poems, mentioned in the Edexcel specification for the syllabus.

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Edexcel International Advanced Level English Literature (XET01 and YET01)

Unit 1: Post-2000 Poetry

1. Eat Me by Patience Agbabi ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass by Simon Armitage ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Material by Ros Barber ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. History by John Burnside ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. An Easy Passage by Julia Copus ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. The Deliverer by Tishani Doshi ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. The Map Woman by Carol Ann Duffy ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. The Lammas Hireling by Ian Duhig ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. To My Nine-Year-Old Self by Helen Dunmore ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. A Minor Role by U A Fanthorpe ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. The Gun by Vicki Feaver ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled by Leontia Flynn ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. Giuseppe by Roderick Ford ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Out of the Bag by Seamus Heaney ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. Effects by Alan Jenkins ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. Genetics by Sinéad Morrissey ^{[PDF Guide]}
17. From the Journal of a Disappointed Man by Andrew Motion ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. Look We Have Coming to Dover by Daljit Nagra ^{[PDF Guide]}
19. Please Hold by Ciaran O’Driscoll ^{[PDF Guide]}
20. On Her Blindness by Adam Thorpe ^{[PDF Guide]}
21. Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn by Tim Turnbull ^{[PDF Guide]}

Unit 4: Pre-1900 Poetry

John Donne ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. The Flea ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. The Good Morrow ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Song (‘Go and catch a falling star’) ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Woman’s Constancy ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. The Sun Rising ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. A Valediction of Weeping ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. The Apparition ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Elegy: To his Mistress Going to Bed ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. ‘At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. ‘Death be not Proud ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. ‘Batter My Heart’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. A Hymn to God the Father ^{[PDF Guide]}

George Herbert:

1. Redemption ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. The Collar ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. The Pulley ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Love III ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. To My Mistress Sitting by a River’s Side: An Eddy ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. To a Lady that Desired I Would Love Her ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. A Song (‘Ask me no more where Jove bestows’) ^{[PDF Guide]}

Thomas Carew:

• A Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Public Engagement (still analysing)

Richard Lovelace:

• Song: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars ^{[PDF Guide]}

Andrew Marvell:

1. The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. To His Coy Mistress ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. The Definition of Love ^{[PDF Guide]}

Henry Vaughan:

1. Unprofitableness ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. The World ^{[PDF Guide]}

Kathleen Philips:

1. To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. A Dialogue of Friendship Multiplied (still analysing)
3. Orinda to Lucasia ^{[PDF Guide]}

William Blake ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. Songs of Innocence: Holy Thursday ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Songs of Experience: The Sick Rose ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Songs of Experience: The Tyger ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. Songs of Experience: London ^{[PDF Guide]}

William Wordsworth ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. Lines Written in Early Spring ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Ode: Intimations of Immortality ^{[PDF Guide]}

Lord Byron ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. So We’ll Go no more A Roving ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year ^{[PDF Guide]}

Percy Bysshe Shelley ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. ‘The cold earth slept below’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Ode to the West Wind ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. The Question ^{[PDF Guide]}

John Keats ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. Ode to a Nightingale ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Ode on a Grecian Urn ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Ode on Melancholy ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Sonnet on the Sea (still analysing)

Alfred Lord Tennyson ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. From In Memoriam: VII ‘Dark house, by which once more I stand’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. From In Memoriam: XCV ‘By night we linger’d on the lawn’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. From Maud: I.xi ‘O let the solid ground’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. From Maud: I.xviii ‘I have led her home, my love, my only friend’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. From Maud: I.xxii ‘Come into the garden, Maud’ (still analysing)
6. From Maud: II.iv ‘O that ’twere possible’ ^{[PDF Guide]}

Emily Brontë ^{[PDF Guide]} and Charlotte Brontë:

1. The Visionary ^{[PDF Guide]}

Elizabeth Barrett Browning ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. Grief ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. from Sonnets from the Portuguese XXIV ‘Let the world’s sharpness, like a closing knife’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. The Best Thing in the World ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. ‘Died…’ ^{[PDF Guide]}

Robert Browning ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. My Last Duchess ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Meeting at Night ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Love in a Life ^{[PDF Guide]}

Charlotte Bronte:

1. ‘The Autumn day its course has run–the Autumn evening falls’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. ‘The house was still–the room was still’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. ‘I now had only to retrace’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. ‘The Nurse believed the sick man slept’ ^{[PDF Guide]}

Charlotte Brontë (perhaps by Emily Brontë ^{[PDF Guide]}):

1. Stanzas – [‘Often rebuked, yet always back returning’] ^{[PDF Guide]}

Christina Rossetti ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. Remember ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Echo ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. May ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. A Birthday ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. Somewhere or Other (still analysing)

Thomas Hardy ^{[PDF Guide]}:

1. At an Inn ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. ‘I Look into My Glass’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Drummer Hodge ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. A Wife in London ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. The Darkling Thrush ^{[PDF Guide]}