PoemAnalysis.com is the #1 website for poetry analysis with the largest database on the internet. With this, we have compiled a list of the poems that are studied by students on different GCSE and A-Level courses. English Literature, at GCSE level, with OCR as the examining body requires students to study poems from a poetry anthology named ‘Towards a World Unknown‘. With this, here is an analysis of every poem from the anthology (some are still in the process of being analyzed, so it might be beneficial to bookmark this page and check back every so often). 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.
OCR English Literature GCSE – ‘Towards a World Unknown’ Poetry Anthology
Love and Relationships
- A Song – Helen Maria Williams
- Bright Star – John Keats
- Now – Robert Browning
- Love and Friendship – Emily Brontë
- A Broken Appointment – Thomas Hardy
- Fin de Fête – Charlotte Mew
- The Sorrow of True Love – Edward Thomas
- An Arundel Tomb – Philip Larkin
- Love After Love – Derek Walcott
- Morning Song – Sylvia Plath
- Long Distance II – Tony Harrison
- I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine – Liz Lochhead
- In Paris With You – James Fenton
- Warming Her Pearls – Carol Ann Duffy
- Dusting the Phone – Jackie Kay
Conflict
- A Poison Tree – William Blake
- Envy – Mary Lamb
- Boat Stealing (from 1799 Prelude) – William Wordsworth
- The Destruction of Sennacherib – Lord Byron
- There’s a Certain Slant of Light – Emily Dickinson
- The Man He Killed – Thomas Hardy
- Anthem for Doomed Youth – Wilfred Owen
- Vergissmeinnicht – Keith Douglas
- What Were They Like? – Denise Levertov
- Lament – Gillian Clarke
- Punishment – Seamus Heaney
- Flag – John Agard
- Phrase Book – Jo Shapcott
- Honour Killing – Imitiaz Dharker
- Partition – Sujata Bhatt
Youth and Age
- Holy Thursday – William Blake
- When I have fears that I may cease to be – John Keats
- The Bluebell – Anne Brontë
- Midnight on the Great Western – Thomas Hardy
- Spring and Fall: to a Young Child – Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Ode – Arthur O’Shaughnessy
- Out, Out – Robert Frost
- Red Roses – Anne Sexton
- Baby Song – Thom Gunn
- You’re – Sylvia Plath
- Cold Knap Lake – Gillian Clarke
- My First Weeks – Sharon Olds
- Venus’-flytrap – Yusef Komunyakaa
- Love – Kate Clanchy
- Farther – Owen Sheers
