OCR AS and A level English Literature H072/H472 Poems Analyzed

For those that are studying English Literature at AS and A level on the OCR board of examiners, here is a list of the required poems analyzed. This includes all the selected poems, mentioned in the H702 OCR AS English Literature Specification and H472 OCR A Level English Literature Specification (the list of poems for each syllabus is the same). Please feel free to skip to the poem most relevant to you. If you want a poem to be analyzed that you cannot find on the site too, please feel free to contact us.

OCR H072/H472 AS and A Level English Literature Poems Analyzed

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale

John Milton: Paradise Lost Books 9 & 10

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems

• The Eolian Harp
• Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
• This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
• Kubla Khan
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts (1817 text)
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6
  • Part 7
• Christabel
• The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem April 1798 (‘No cloud, no relique of the sunken day’)
• Fears in Solitude
• Frost at Midnight
• Dejection: An Ode
• The Pains of Sleep
• To William Wordsworth
• The Knight’s Tomb
• Youth and Age
• Constancy to an Ideal Object

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Maud

Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems

1. Song: When I am dead, my dearest
2. Remember
3. From the Antique (‘It’s a weary life, it is, she said’)
4. Echo
5. Shut Out
6. In the Round Tower at Jhansi (Indian Mutiny)
7. A Birthday
8. Maude Clare
9. Up-hill
10. No, thank you, John
11. Good Friday (‘Am I a stone and not a sheep?’)
12. Goblin Market
13. Twice
14. Winter: My Secret
15. Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde