GCSE

AQA Specification A GCSE English Literature Section B: Poetry

Revised Key Poems from September 2008

Heaney and Clarke

Heaney Clarke Pre – 1914

Foundation Mid-Term Break Baby Sitting The eagle

Follower On the Train Song of the Old Mother
Digging Catrin On My First Sonne
Death of a Naturalist The Field Mouse I Love to See the Summer

Higher At a Potato Digging Cold Knap Lake Patrolling Barnegat

Storm on the Island A Difficult Birth The Affliction of Margaret
Digging Catrin On My First Sonne
Death of a Naturalist The Field Mouse I Love to See the Summer

Duffy and Armitage

Duffy Armitage Pre – 1914

Foundation Salome My Father Thought It The Man He Killed

Elvis’s Twin Sister* November Song of the Old Mother
Havisham Kid On My First Sonne
Stealing Hitcher The Laboratory

Higher Anne Hathaway Mother, Any Distance Sonnet 130

Before You Were Mine Homecoming My Last Duchess
Havisham Kid On My First Sonne
Stealing* Hitcher The Laboratory

* These are the revised Carol Ann Duffy poems from September 2008 (Summer 2010 Examination)

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