GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE (AQA, A)

POETRY ( * denotes key poems for Higher tier)

Carol Ann Duffy

* Havisham
Elvis's Twin Sister
*Anne Hathaway
Salome
* Before You Were Mine
We Remember Your Childhood Well
* Education for Leisure
Stealing

Simon Armitage

* from Book of Matches, 'Mother, any distance greater than a single span'
from Book of Matches, 'My Father thought it ...'
* Homecoming
November
* Kid
from Book of Matches, 'Those bastards in their mansions'
from Book of Matches, 'I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself'
* Hitcher

Pre-1914 Poetry Bank

* Ben Jonson On my first Sonne
William Butler Yeats The Song of the Old Mother
William Wordsworth The Affliction of Margaret
William Blake The Little Boy Lost & The Little Boy Found
Charles Tichborne Tichborne's Elegy
Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed
Walt Whitman Patrolling Barnegat
* William Shakespeare Sonnet 130
* Robert Browning My Last Duchess
* Robert Browning The Laboratory
Alfred Tennyson Ulysses
Oliver Goldsmith The Village Schoolmaster
Alfred Tennyson The Eagle
Gerard Manley Hopkins Inversnaid
John Clare Sonnet

PROSE

Doris Lessing Flight
Sylvia Plath Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit
Michele Roberts Your Shoes
Joyce Cary Growing Up
Ernest Hemingway The End of Something
Graham Swift Chemistry
Leslie Norris Snowdrops