Cie igcse poetry - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Here’s a complete breakdown of the poem ‘Request To A Year’ by Judith Wright from the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4). This resource includes: VOCABULARY STORY + SUMMARY SPEAKER + VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES ATTITUDES TASKS + EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

Here’s a comprehensive study guide for the poem ‘Rain’ by Edward Thomas, including tasks, essay questions, and a full summary and analysis. Suitable for CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE students, among others. This resource includes: VOCABULARY STORY + SUMMARY SPEAKER + VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES ATTITUDES TASKS + EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

Here’s a complete breakdown of the poem ‘Night Sweat’ by Robert Lowell from the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4). This resource includes: VOCABULARY STORY + SUMMARY SPEAKER + VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES ATTITUDES TASKS + EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

Here’s a complete breakdown of the poem ‘He Never Expected Much’ by Thomas Hardy from the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4). This resource includes: VOCABULARY STORY + SUMMARY SPEAKER + VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES ATTITUDES TASKS + EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

Here’s a complete breakdown of the poem ‘The City Planners’ by Margaret Atwood from the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4). This resource includes: VOCABULARY STORY + SUMMARY SPEAKER + VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES ATTITUDES TASKS + EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

Here’s a complete breakdown of the poem ‘Funeral Blues’ by W. H. Auden from the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4). This resource includes: VOCABULARY STORY + SUMMARY SPEAKER + VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES ATTITUDES TASKS + EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

Here’s a complete breakdown of the poem ‘The Planners’ by Boey Kim Cheng from the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4). This resource includes: VOCABULARY STORY + SUMMARY SPEAKER + VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES ATTITUDES TASKS + EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

Here’s a complete breakdown of the poem from ‘Long Distance II’ by Tony Harrison from the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4). This resource includes: VOCABULARY STORY + SUMMARY SPEAKER + VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES ATTITUDES TASKS + EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

Here’s a complete breakdown of the poem ‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’ by Anne Stevenson from the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4). This resource includes: VOCABULARY STORY + SUMMARY SPEAKER + VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES ATTITUDES TASKS + EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

This is a full-mark GCSE essay analysing the poem 'A Child's Sleep' by Carol Ann Duffy. It was written under exam conditions and timings and scored 100%, and provides a good, solid understanding of Duffy's poem, taking a chronological and thematic approach. I wrote this essay as part of my study for the IGCSE CIE English Literature course, for the Poetry paper, and it helped me to achieve a top 9 grade (A**).