This document contains detailed analysis, context and in-depth literary conventions for the Poetry section of the Edexcel A-Level English Literature course. Further support is given to students with the inclusion of quotation banks providing students with the foundations to be successful in essay q...
Paper 3: Poetry
Poems of the Decade
EITHER
Read the poem When Six O‘Clock Comes and Another Day Has Passed by
Kathryn Simmonds on page 2 of the source booklet and reread the anthology
poem Genetics by Sinéad Morrissey (on page 3).
Compare the methods both poets use to explore the bonds between parents
and children.
OR
Read the poem When Six O’Clock Comes and Another Day Has Passed by
Kathryn Simmonds on page 2 of the source booklet and reread the anthology
poem Effects by Alan Jenkins (on pages 4 and 5).
Compare the methods both poets use to explore emotional responses to birth
and death.
(30 marks)
Romantics
EITHER
Explore the ways in which the natural world is portrayed in Lines Written in Early
Spring by William Wordsworth and one other poem. You must relate your
discussion to relevant contextual factors.
OR
Explore the ways in which the past is presented in R Alcona to J Brenzaida by
Emily Brontё and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant
contextual factors. (30 marks)
(Please be aware that Emily Bronte was part of an older syllabus! It was changed
after 2017)
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