WJEC GCSE English Literature Welsh Poems Analysed

PoemAnalysis.com is the number one website on the internet for poetry analysis, with the largest database of poems analyzed online. For those that are studying GCSE English Literature with the WJEC examining body, the course contains a list of Welsh poems, taken from Poetry 1900-2000: One Hundred Poets From Wales, to analyze and compare how the poets present the theme of Wales and being Welsh. As well as these poems, other poems are looking at the likes of Love, Relationships, The Treatment of Women, and Control and Power. With this, here is an analysis of all of the poems on the WJEC GCSE English Literature syllabus (where the ones not analyzed are still being analyzed by our team of poetry experts). 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 or you want to inform us of this list of poems for WJEC needs updating, feel free to contact us.

WJEC GCSE English Literature Welsh Poems

Welsh Poems

1. The Old Tongue – Herbert Williams
2. (from) Glyn Dwr Sonnets ‘When young Owain…’ – Andrew McNeillie
3. Soliloquy For Compatriots – John Tripp
4. Back? – T.H. Jones
5. Welsh History – R.S. Thomas
6. Welsh Landscape – R.S. Thomas
7. A Peasant – R.S. Thomas
8. Drawing a Line – Gwyn Williams (still analyzing)
9. The Master – Bryn Griffiths (still analyzing)
10. Waterfalls – Vernon Watkins
11. The Stone Face – Harri Webb (still analyzing)
12. Thanks in Winter – Harri Webb
13. Synopsis of the Great Welsh Novel – Harri Webb
14. Cwm Farm Near Capel Welsh Novel – Huw Menai
15. The Old Language – John Davies (still analyzing)

Love

1. A Married State – Katherine Philips
2. A Woman To Her Lover – Christina Walsh
3. Cousin Kate – Christina Rossetti
4. Havisham – Carol Ann Duffy
5. Holy Sonnet 17 – John Donne
6. Human Interest – Carol Ann Duffy
7. Meeting Point – Louis MacNeice
8. The Willing Mistress – Aphra Behn
9. Sonnet 130 – William Shakespeare
10. The Capon Clerk – Sheenagh Pugh (still analyzing)
11. They Did Not Expect This – Vernon Scannell

Relationships

1. A Frosty Night – Robert Graves
2. Crabbed Age and Youth – William Shakespeare (still analyzing)
3. Do not go gentle into that good night – Dylan Thomas
4. Long Distance II – Tony Harrison
5. On My First Son – Ben Jonson
6. Prayer Before Birth – Louis MacNeice
7. Song Of The Worker’s Wife – Alice Gray Jones
8. Sweet 18 – Sheenagh Pugh (still analyzing)
9. The Almond Tree – Jon Stallworthy
10. What Has Happened To Lulu? – Charles Causley

The Treatment of Women

1. Porphyria’s Lover – Robert Browning
2. The Sun Rising – John Donne
3. Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy

Control and Power

1. Base Details – Siegfried Sassoon