GCSE English: Annotated Poems & Analysis

50-page Revision Guide of Annotated Poems with Detailed Analysis

This revision guide contains 50 pages of handwritten annotations on a collection of the best GCSE poems from the anthology and beyond. Grade 9 analysis and comprehensive annotations include:

• Language
• Structure
• Themes
• Context
• Motifs and Symbols

Visually appealing with colours to keep focussed. This revision guide can be used to understand the quality of Grade 9 analysis required for GCSE as well as a source of ideas if required to compare poems, or write a detailed essay on one poem.

Poems included:

• Ozymandias by Shelley
• London by Blake
• Extract From, The Prelude by Wordsworth
• My Last Duchess by Browning
• The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson
• Tissue by Dharker
• Checking Out Me History by Agard
• Kamikaze by Garland

Themes – analysis, and analysis of example poems:

• TIME: Lamenting the Past with a Sense of Loss
• ART: Human Suffering and Fragility
• NATURE: Conflict with Nature
• RULING POWER: Authority
• GEOGRAPHY: Man vs. Nature
• RELATIONSHIPS: Love and Hardships
• WARFARE: Pain of War
• PAIN: Mental pain
• ANGER: Anger, Weakness and war
• SADNESS: Human Suffering
• PTSD: Haunting Reminders
• REBELLION: Suppression of People in Distress
• POWER of the individul: The Oppressors vs. The Oppressed
• DEATH: Sorrow
• POWER of the group: Returning from battle
• FEAR: Fear of the end

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