Poetry Essay - Exploring Poetry

Support for studying English GCSE and A Level

Poetry Essay - Exploring Poets On GCSE and A Level Syllabuses

Poetry Essay provides you with a range of poetry video annotations, to help you analyse poetry.  The annotation prompts are a supportive tool, intended to encourage further analysis and interpretation.  Click the poet below that you would like help with:

John Agard
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Simon Armitage
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Margaret Atwood​

Wystan Hugh Auden

Boey Kim Cheng
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert Browning

William Blake
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Elizabeth Brewster

Lewis Carroll
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John Donne
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Carol Ann Duffy
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Douglas Dunn
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Seamus Heaney
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Alfred Edward Housman

James Fenton
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Andrew Forster
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Ted Hughes
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Mimi Khalvati
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Philip Larkin
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Norman MacCaig

Andrew Marvell
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Charlotte Mew
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Clement Clarke Moore

Grace Nichols
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Wilfred Owen
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Katherine Philips
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Christina Rossetti 

Carol Rumens
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Vernon Scannell
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William Shakespeare

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Alfred Tennyson
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William Butler Yeats

Jane Weir
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William Wordsworth

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AQA Power And Conflict Poems - Analysed In Detail

Click here for the AQA Power and Conflict poems which have been analysed in detail. The annotation prompts are a supportive tool, intended to encourage further analysis and interpretation. 

There are 15 AQA Power and Conflict poems which students are required to analyse for the GCSE English Literature poetry exam. AQA states that students should study all 15 poems in their chosen cluster and be prepared to write about any of them in the examination.

The AQA Power and Conflict cluster of poems have been analysed in detail. If you need help analysing the collection of AQA Power and Conflict poems please look at the videos below. Each of the Power and Conflict poems have been concisely annotated to support your analysis and interpretation. The annotation prompts are a supportive tool, intended to encourage further analysis and interpretation. ​