AQA- Poetry
Love and Relationships
Poetry Anthology and Unseen Poetry
Love and relationships- 15 POEMS ​
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Question 1- Compare a poem from your anthology (given) to another poem (not given) 30 marks
Question 2- Analyse a poem you have never seen before (given on exam) 24 marks
Question 3- Compare the unseen poem from question 2 with another poem given in question 3 (8 marks)
Total = 62 marks
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The Text
Free from school.
If you lose it, see Miss McLean immediately
Cluster 1- Damaged Relationships
​Cluster 2- Family Relationships
Cluster 3- Real Love
1. When We Two Parted
3. Porphyria's Lover
5. Neutral Tones
​7. The Farmer's Bride
8. Walking Away
9. Eden Rock
10. Follower
11. Mother Any Distance
12. Before You Were Mine
15. Climbing My Grandfather
2. Love's Philosophy
4. Sonnet 29
6. Letters from Yorkshire
13. Winter Swans
14. Singh Song!
Why are these clustered?
When you write your exam, you will be asked to copmpare two similar poems from the anthology. This will help you make connections between the poems and hopefully make this question easier!
Guide to all Poems
Analysis Vocabulary
155 Tone Words
Step 3:
Know the exam
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There are three Questions on Exam
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Compare two poems from the anthology (one printed, one not)
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Long answer for unseen poem and then…
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A comparison with another unseen poem
When We Two Parted
By: Lord Byron
Cluster 1 Damaged Relationships
Annotations
Support Booklet
Knowledge Organiser
Porphyria's Lover
By: Robert Browning
Cluster 1 Damaged Relationships
Support Booklet
Knowledge Organiser
Cluster 1 Damaged Relationships
Neutral Tones
By: Thomas Hardy
Support Booklet
Questions
Knowledge Organiser
The Farmer's Bride
By: Charlotte Mew
Cluster 1 Damaged Relationships
Support Booklet
Questions
Knowledge Organiser
Love's Philosophy
By: Percy Shelley
Cluster 3- Real Love
Support Booklet
Annotations
Knowledge Organiser
Sonnet 29
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Cluster 3- Real Love
Support Booklet
Knowledge Organiser
Letters from Yorkshire
By: Maura Dooley
Cluster 3- Real Love
Support Booklet
Knowledge Organiser
Winter Swans
Owen Sheers
Cluster 3- Real Love
Singh Song!
By: Daljit Nagra
Cluster 3- Real Love
Support Booklet
Knowledge Organiser
Walking Away
By: C. Day Lewis
Cluster 2- Family Relationships
Support Booklet
Questions
Knowledge Organiser
Eden Rock
By: Charles Causley
Cluster 2- Family Relationships
Support Booklet
Knowledge Organiser
Follower
by: Seamus Heaney
Cluster 2- Family Relationships
Knowledge Organiser
Support Booklet
Questions
Mother Any Distance
Simon Armitage
Cluster 2- Family Relationships
Knowledge Organiser
Support Booklet
Questions
Before You Were Mine
By: Carol Ann Duffy
Cluster 2- Family Relationships
Knowledge Organiser
Support Booklet
Questions
Climbing my Grandfather
By: Andrew Waterhouse
Cluster 2- Family Relationships
