Moon on the Tides: The AQA GCSE Poetry Anthology - a Guide for Students: The AQA GCSE Poetry Anthology - a Guide for StudentsA detailed and comprehensive guide to all sixty poems in the AQA Poetry Anthology. Each poem is carefully explained in its context and then minutely analysed. Unfamiliar words are explained, there is a comprehensive glossary of poetic terms, advice on how to answer examination questions and sixteen model answers based on specimen questions supplied by AQA. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Warming Up | 15 |
Checking Out Me History John Agard | 28 |
Singh Song Daljit Nagra | 42 |
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley | 55 |
The Hunchback in the Park Dylan Thomas | 70 |
On a Portrait of a Deaf Man John Betjeman | 83 |
A Vision Simon Armitage | 99 |
The Falling Leaves Margaret Postgate Cole | 205 |
Hawk Roosting Ted Hughes | 215 |
Relationships | 227 |
In Paris with You James Fenton | 234 |
Ghazal Mimi Khalvati | 242 |
Praise Song for My Mother Grace Nichols | 250 |
Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare | 257 |
To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell | 265 |
viii | 104 |
Crossing the Loch Kathleen Jamie | 118 |
Extract from The Prelude William Wordsworth | 131 |
Storm in the Black Forest D H Lawrence | 145 |
Conflict | 159 |
The Right Word Imtiaz Dharker | 175 |
Futility Wilfred Owen | 192 |
The Farmers Bride Charlotte Mew | 271 |
Nettles Vernon Scannell | 282 |
Relationships Connecting the Poems | 289 |
The Examination | 297 |
Glossary | 303 |
Analysis of Gunpowder Plot | 315 |
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Common terms and phrases
Agard alliteration Anthology Armitage Armitage’s assonance attitude beautiful blackbird Blake born Brendon British Carol Ann Duffy cathedral century Clarke Clarke’s Context couplet dead death describes Duffy Duffy’s duke English enjambment famous father feel final line final stanza free verse future ghazal give Grace Nichols Guyana hard water harmonium horse whisperer Hughes human hunchback imagery important Iraq Khalvati lake language lives look lover MacCaig Medusa Melia memory mother myth narrator nature nettles Nichols onomatopoeia ordinary Ozymandias past tense pattern perhaps personified phrase poem poem is written poem’s poet poet’s poetry present tense punk quatrain questions reader relationship remember reminds repetition rhyme rhythm Scannell second stanza seems sense sentence shows simile Simon Armitage soldiers song sonnet sounds speaker subject matter suggests swans Ted Hughes tells Tennyson things third stanza tone unseen poem Vernon Scannell verse paragraph voice wife women words Wordsworth writing Yeats