Next up: Poetry

Hello Y11,

So, your next exam is English Literature Paper 2: Poetry Across Time.

Remember, you will get a clean Anthology in the exam.

My hunches for this exam are as follows, but remember that anything could come up - you need to know all of the poems and know plenty of them inside out.

Top hunches:
My Last Duchess
Medusa

Others that haven't come up for a while:
Checking Out Me History
The Clown Punk
The Hunchback in the Park

Here's my exam guide:


And here's a couple of past papers:

 

Here is the top end of the mark schemes for section A and B:

 

 

And here are some posts about the poems:

• 'Give' and 'The Clown Punk' - Simon Armitage
• 'Les Grands Seigneurs' by Dorothy Molloy
• 'The Ruined Maid' by Thomas Hardy
• 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning
• 'On a Portrait of a Deaf Man' by John Betjeman
• 'Checking Out Me History' by John Agard 
• 'The Hunchback in the Park' by Dylan Thomas
• Model answer: 'Ozymandias' and 'The River God' 

And here's my approach to the unseen poem.

 

You can find lots of other poetry resources by clicking on 'Character and Voice' in the browse by topic menu, here --------------------------------->

Finally, some links for poems which are not mentioned above. Here are two essential articles on 'Medusa' and 'Singh Song' by the authors themselves.

I'm also intending to finish another model answer on 'Portait of a Deaf Man' and 'Casehistory: Alison' - the one we started in the lesson the other day.

Good luck!


Mr M